The Tony Williams Lifetime - Unreleased Recordings

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Originally posted January 5 and 2010, August 30, 2015, again November 5, 2020 

The Tony Williams Lifetime 

Unreleased Album 1974

aka - Lost Wildlife Tapes

Studio Recordings @320

Track List:

01. Scirocco

02. Hot & Sticky

03. Little Zorro

04. Happy Tears

05. The Spirit

 

Tony Williams: Drums

Allan Holdsworth: Guitar

Webster Lewis: Keys

Jack Bruce: Bass

Laura "Tequila" Logan: Vocals

 

Tony Williams was a fan of rock music, and when he left Miles he formed the fusion band Lifetime, a trio with Larry Young and John McLaughlin. After leading other versions of Lifetime (one of them starring Allan Holdsworth), Williams stuck to freelancing for a time, studied composition, and toured with Herbie Hancock's V.S.O.P. band. By the mid-'80s, he was heading his own all-star hard bop group which featured Wallace Roney as a surrogate Miles Davis and a repertoire dominated by the drummer's originals (including the standard "Sister Cheryl"). After breaking up his longtime quintet in 1995, Williams gigged a bit with a trio, recorded a very interesting set of original music for the Ark 21 label, and seemed to have a limitless future. His premature death makes one grateful that he started his career early and that he was extensively documented. ~Scott Yanow, AMG

 

Tony Williams Bio @ Drum Lessions

 

 

Wildlife Unreleased '74

& & & & & 

The Tony Williams Lifetime 

Turn It Over (Redux)

Bill Laswell Remix

Unreleased remixed studio recordings @ 320

tiburon noted:
In 1999, Bill Laswell decided to re-imagine this seminal jazz fusion album. However, Verve Records refused to release the album once it was completed, claiming it would never sell. However, it was released on CD-R directly to a small music shop in New York City frequented by Bill Laswell himself, the Downtown Music Gallery.

A rare, unreleased version of The Tony Williams Lifetime album, Turn It Over. Expanded, remixed, and remastered by Bill Laswell from the original Polydor master tapes. This unabridged version of the complete album includes four unreleased cuts, and five longer unedited versions from album sessions - which was intended as a double LP but only released as an editied single LP. Cover art by Russell Mills, liner notes by John Szwed. Thanks to Bill Laswell for rescuing, and finally giving a proper mastering to match William’s original intentions, to this most seminal, groundbreaking recording, mixing jazz, rock, prog and metal years ahead of virtually everyone else!

Track 01. Vuelta Abajo* 6:34 (11.0MB)
Track 02. To Whom It May Concern: Us/Them 7:16 (12.2MB)
Track 03. This Night This Song* 3:52 (6.5MB)
Track 04. Do That** 2:56 (4.9MB)
Track 05. Big Nick* 3:17 (5.5MB)
Track 06. Once I Loved 5:10 (8.7MB)
Track 07. To Whom** 2:20 (3.9MB)
Track 08. Allah Be Praised* 6:13 (10.4MB)
Track 09. Right On* 8:05 (13.6MB)
Track 10. A Famous Blues 4:16 (7.2MB)
Track 11. New Piece** 6:16 (10.5MB)

*Unedited version
**Previously unreleased

Lineup:
Tony Williams - drums, vocals
John McLaughlin - guitar, vocals
Larry Young - organ
Jack Bruce - bass, vocals
Produced by Monte Kay, Jack Lewis, Tony Williams


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Shorter, Hancock, Roney, Carter & Williams LIVE in Lugano Switzerland 1992

 Shorter, Hancock, Roney, Carter & Williams

Tribute To Miles

Estival Jazz

Piazza Della Riforma

Lugano Switzerland

1992-07-02 

Soundboard @320

01. So What

02. R.J.

03. Little One

04. Pinocchio

05. All Blues

06. Drum Solo

07. Elegy

08. Orbits---Paraphernalia

09. Eighty One---The Sorcerer

10. Pee Wee

Wayne Shorter - Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone

Herbie Hancock - Piano

Wallace Roney - Trumpet

Ron Carter - Bass

Tony Williams - Drums

Impressions Of Miles

Miles Davis - Live In Sindelfingen, Germany 1964

Back From The Dead as requested...
Originally posted in mp3 May 30, 2018

Miles Davis Quintet - Sindelfingen Stadthalle 
Sindelfingen,  Germany

(the former West Germany)
October 8, 1964

Broadcast Source @flac

**Originally posted as a single set in mp3. Now you have the flac version

of the 2 sets played on that night!!

Hot on the heels of that landmark concert at New York’s Philharmonic Hall in February, The Miles Davis Quintet, with Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Ron Carter embarked on a tour of Europe to spread the message.

One of those concerts (of which most were recorded, thank god), was presented by Suddeutsches Rundfunk from the Stadthalle in Sindelfingen on October 8, 1964.

~Original Notes~
LDB Special Series #377 (#703 of the entire series)

Out of my 7,000+ shows and radio broadcasts, I have many concerts that were special for some reasons: the setlist, the musicians, the venue or unexpected events. These are the ones I'd like to propose you. Most of these come from my cassettes collection, so they will be released at a slower pace than my Master Series! But you won't be disappointed!
I will try to gather the most unusual things I have in my collection and, as always, your feedback and comments will be my reward for all the work involved in this project.

DO NOT share this music on mp3, just convert it for your own use. Sharing mp3's is the right way to make me stop sharing music here.

Finally, some notes about yours truly ldb: I have been a fan of live music since I was 9 years old (that is where I attended my very first show, a PFM/De André gig at Milano's Palalido) and my first taped show was at 11 using a crappy portable cassette player with embedded microphone. I become more serious about taping in 1983 when I started to record every show. In 1991 I acquired my first Sony Professional and in 2000 I moved to MiniDisc to finally settle on R-09 in early 2008.

I have seen nearly 500 shows in my career. Most of them were taped but for others bad luck struck and I could not record it: on top of my mind there's a Paul McCartney show in 1993 in Milano where I was caught by the security or Porcupine Tree in Roma in March 1999 when the DAT machine would seem to work but listening back to the tape there would just be a long bunch of silence. Or during a Y.Malmsteen show where I got so annoyed that I left halfway through the show and erased the tape and finally on a PFM show in Milano in 2007 where I had to leave before the encore because the baby-sitter had to leave early that evening. Some other times I was very close not to tape or
had to do it in extremely difficult situations: for the four Peter Gabriel shows at Earls Court in 1987 security was checking tapers with metal detector; at the David Gilmour comeback show in London in 2001 at RFH I had the security guy sitting next to me but I managed to tape the show without checking one single time my MiniDisc!

There was a time I was travelling anywhere in Europe to see shows, especially if there was no touring in Italy: I remember Rush in Paris in 1992 when the trio did not even know what Italy was. I have seen shows at stadiums (Genesis at Wembley) and in places with 30 people (Porcupine Tree in Milano in 1997); bands that would later become huge (Pearl Jam in a free show for 150 people) and masters of jazz (Miles Davis or Sarah Vaughan). Shows I will never forget (Pink Floyd at Versailles castle) and some I would rather forget (no comment...).

I truly believe that live music is what keeps music alive, what make us enjoying it together, what allow us to have deep feelings and transmit it to others. Studio records are nowadays 'commodities': you can buy online as anonymous wav files and listen in your iPod or at home. Live music will always imply an effort to buy the tix, travel to the venue, see the show, think about it when coming back home.

Miles Davis Quintet
Stadthalle, Sindelfingen
October 8, 1964 

First concert

01.Autumn Leaves (J. Prevert-J. Mercer-J. Kosma)
02.So What (M. Davis)    
03.All Blues (M. Davis)    
04.Oleo (S. Rollins)    
XX.Stella by Starlight (N. Washington-V. Young)    
05.Walkin' / The Theme (M. Davis)
TT 47:37

Second concert

01.Milestones (M. Davis)    
02.No Blues (M. Davis)    
03.All of You (C. Porter)    
04.Joshua / The Theme (M. Davis)
TT 37:04

Lineage: Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) radio broadcast > 2CD set (trade) > EAC > HD > SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6)

Miles Davis (tpt)
Wayne Shorter (ts)
Herbie Hancock (p)
Ron Carter (b)
Tony Williams (d)

I had two CDs coming from different sources with mixed setlists between the first and second show, with some overlaps. I took the time to reconstruct both setlists in the way the were played that evening. Here you have the whole thing except for one track of show 1. The concert is magnificent and the quintet that played with Miles in 1964 astonishing. That was the first year of the second great quartet that lasted until 1967-68. The source is a very good radio broadcast. If you think that this music wasperformed nearly 50 years ago...

~ ldb

Thanks to 1db, and DC++ via Dime!!

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Tony Williams Lifetime - Unreleased 1974

The Tony Williams Lifetime - Unreleased Album 1974
aka - Lost Wildlife Tapes
Studio Recordings @320


Track List:
01. Scirocco
02. Hot & Sticky
03. Little Zorro
04. Happy Tears
05. The Spirit

Tony Williams: Drums
Allan Holdsworth: Guitar
Webster Lewis: Keys
Jack Bruce: Bass
Laura "Tequila" Logan: Vocals

Unreleased '74