Artist: Anthony WilliamsTony Williams
Label: Blue Note
SKU: BLUN141767
Barcode: 602448321534
Genre: Audiophile Jazz
No of Discs: 1 Disc
Release: 04/05/2024
The precocious and prodigious drummer and composer Tony Williams had already joined the Miles Davis Quintet and participated in numerous landmark Blue Note recordings including Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles, Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch, Andrew Hill Point Of Departure, Jackie McLean One Step Beyond, and Grachan Moncur III Evolution by the time he recorded his own adventurous debut album Life Time in 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 saxophonist Sam Rivers and bassists Gary Peacock and Richard Davis. Side 2 opens with the jaunty “Tomorrow Afternoon” featuring Williams, Rivers, and Peacock. Williams plays a variety of percussion on the freely improvised “Memory” which features Herbie Hancock on piano and Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone, and lays out entirely on the ruminative piano-bass duet “Barb’s Song to the Wizard” performed by Hancock and Ron Carter which closes the album.

2 Pieces Of One
Bass – Gary Peacock, Richard Davis (2)
Drums, Written-By – Anthony Williams
Tenor Saxophone – Sam Rivers
A.a Red
A.b Green
B1 Tomorrow Afternoon
Bass – Gary Peacock
Drums, Written-By – Anthony Williams
Tenor Saxophone – Sam Rivers
B2 Memory
Drum [Part Of Drum Set], Timpani [Tympani], Wood Block [Woodblocks], Maracas, Triangle, Written-By – Anthony Williams
Piano – Herbie Hancock
Vibraphone, Marimba – Bobby Hutcherson
B3 Barb’s Song To The Wizard
Bass – Ron Carter
Piano – Herbie Hancock
Written-By – Anthony Williams