Tony Williams - Life Time (1964) CD Rip

Tracklist

1.Two Pieces of One: Red - 8:06
2.Two Pieces of One: Green - 10:40
3.Tomorrow Afternoon - 5:35
4.Memory - 8:06
5.Barb's Song to the Wizard - 5:56

Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on August 21 (tracks 1-3) and August 24 (tracks 4 & 5), 1964


personnel :

Anthony Williams - drums, timpani, woodblocks, maracas, triangle
Sam Rivers - tenor saxophone (tracks 1-3)
Bobby Hutcherson - vibes, marimba (tracks 4 & 5)
Herbie Hancock - piano (tracks 4 & 5)
Ron Carter (track 5), Richard Davis (tracks 1 & 2), Gary Peacock (tracks 1-3) - bass

Drummer Tony Williams' first recording as a leader (made when he was 18 and still billed as Anthony Williams) gave him an opportunity to utilize an advanced group of musicians: tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, pianist Herbie Hancock, and both Richard Davis and Gary Peacock on bass. Williams wrote all four of the pieces and has a different combination of players on each song. The freely improvised "Memory" features Hutcherson, Hancock, and Williams in some colorful and at times spacy interplay; "Barb's Song to the Wizard" is a Hancock-Ron Carter duet; "Tomorrow Afternoon" has Rivers, Peacock and Williams in a trio; and all of the musicians (except Hutcherson) are on the sidelong "2 Pieces of One." The unpredictable music holds one's interest; a very strong debut for the masterful drummer.~Scott Yanow