ANTHONY WILLIAMS – Life Time (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) – LP – Deluxe Gatefold 180g Vinyl

LP -This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket.

The precocious and prodigious drummer and composerTony Williamshad already joined theMiles Davis Quintetand participated in numerous landmark Blue Note recordings includingHerbie HancockEmpyrean Isles,Eric DolphyOut To Lunch,Andrew HillPoint Of Departure,Jackie McLeanOne Step Beyond, andGrachan Moncur IIIEvolutionby the time he recorded his own adventurous debut albumLife Timein August 1964, when he was still just 18 years old. Williams had no intention of playing it safe on his maiden voyage as a leader and set forth to document his uncompromising expression on this program of innovative original compositions. Side 1 presents the expansive two movement suite 2 Pieces of One with the drummer joined by tenor saxophonistSam Riversand bassistsGary PeacockandRichard Davis. Side 2 opens with the jaunty Tomorrow Afternoon featuringWilliams, Rivers, and Peacock. Williams plays a variety of percussion on the freely improvised Memory which featuresHerbie Hancockon piano andBobby Hutchersonon vibraphone, and lays out entirely on the ruminative piano-bass duet Barbs Song to the Wizard performed by Hancock andRon Carterwhich closes the album.

This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket.

Tracklist:

A1: Silver’s Serenade
A2: Let’s Get To The Nitty Gritty

B1: Sweet Sweetie Dee
B2: The Dragon Lady
B3: Nineteen Bars