I love listening to this album around now, since at some point I started associating it with spring:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SErOq087L2k

#jazz #JazzFusion #TonyWilliams #Wilderness

'Four' & More: Recorded Live in Concert is a live album by Miles Davis. It was recorded at the Philharmonic Hall of Lincoln Center on February 12, 1964 and released two years later.

Review by Scott Yanow

In an odd bit of programming, Columbia placed the ballads from Miles Davis' February 12, 1964, concert on My Funny Valentine and the uptempo romps on this LP. Davis, probably a bit bored by some of his repertoire and energized by the teenage Tony Williams' drumming, performed many of his standards at an increasingly faster pace as time went on. These versions of "So What," "Walkin'," "Four," "Joshua," "Seven Steps to Heaven," and even "There Is No Greater Love" are remarkably rapid, with the themes quickly thrown out before Davis, George Coleman, and Herbie Hancock take their solos...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG5FAVw3UqY&list=RDiG5FAVw3UqY&start_radio=1

#MilesDavis #TonyWilliams #Jazz #Music #ModalJazz #HerbieHancock #GeorgeColeman #RonCarter #Trumpet

OK, thanks so much for revisiting with me, the music of my high school years.

Let's close with a beautiful ballad: "My Funny Valentine," live at the Philharmonic Hall, Feb. 1964, NAACP benefit concert.

#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackMusic
#20thCenturyMusic
#MilesDavis (trump.)
#GeorgeColeman (t. sax)
#HerbieHancock (piano)
#RonCarter (bass)
#TonyWilliams (drums)

https://youtu.be/XdrAzpYdOYs

#NowPlaying Arcana 'The Last Wave' CD (DIW, 1996)

Can it really be 30 years since this brilliant album was released by a superlative “power trio” (for want of a better expression) of improvisors comprising Derek Bailey, Bill Laswell and Tony Williams?

Williams’ room-filling drumming is such a brilliant foil for the shards of Bailey’s explosive electric guitar attack. So sad that the former died the following year, aged just 51.

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Wave_(album)

#DerekBailey #BillLaswell #TonyWilliams #ArcanaTheLastWave #ImprovisedMusic @improvisedmusic

The logical next music to visit with, after "Filles de Kilimanjaro," is "In a Silent Way" (1969). Listen to "It's About that Time." Miles hasn't hooked up a wa-wa pedal yet, but Wayne has switched to soprano, and McLaughlin has arrived. The sound is evolving quickly.

#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackMusic
#20thCenturyMusic
#MilesDavis (trumpet)
#WayneShorter (soprano sax)
#JohnMcLaughlin (electric guitar)
#TonyWilliams (drumming)
#DaveHolland (bass)
and more!

https://youtu.be/NZoxVRGr0gQ?list=RDNZoxVRGr0gQ