Emergency! (Album)

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Emergency!
The Tony Williams Lifetime studio album.

Publication
(s)

1969

admission

May 26 and 28, 1969

Label (s) Polydor, Polygram

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

fusion

Title (number)

8th

running time

70:24

occupation John McLaughlin, Tony Williams and Larry Young

production

Monte Kay, Jack Lewis

Location (s)

Olmstead Sound Studios, New York City

chronology
- Emergency! Turn it over

(1970)

Tony Williams

Emergency! is the debut double album by the American  jazz fusion group  The Tony Williams Lifetime , consisting of the American drummer Tony Williams , the British guitarist John McLaughlin and the American organist Larry Young .

album

The inclusion of Emergency! took place on May 26 and 28, 1969 at Olmstead Sound Studios in New York City. The album was released  as an LP in 1969 by Polydor Records  and Polygram Records . In 1991 the album was re-released on CD with Polygram Records and in 1997 with Verve Records.

Emergency! was one of the first significant jazz fusion recordings and is one of the groundbreaking, influential and innovative albums in the fusion field. It also made John McLaughlin known to the American audience.

Track list

  • The Tony Williams Lifetime: Emergency (Polydor - 25-3001)
page 1
  1. Emergency (Williams) - 9:37
  2. Beyond Games (Williams) - 8:19
Page 2
  1. Where (McLaughlin) - 12:11
  2. Vashkar ( Carla Bley ) - 5:01
Page 3
  1. Via the Spectrum Road (McLaughlin, Williams) - 7:51 am
  2. Spectrum (McLaughlin) - 8:52
page 4
  1. Sangria for Three (Williams) - 13:08
  2. Something Spiritual (Dave Herman) - 5:40

Contributors

Musicians and instruments

Production staff

  • Elaine Gongora - cover design
  • James Isaacs - Linernotes
  • Monte Kay - producer
  • Jack Lewis - producer
  • Sid Maurer - Art Director, Photography
  • Joseph M. Palmaccio - Digital Mastering, Editing
  • Gene Radice - recording technology, mixing

reception

In a contemporary review for  The Village Voice  ,  Robert Christgau called the album "a real thing" and hailed Williams as "probably the best drummer in the world". JD Considine rated the album in  The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992) with 4.5 out of five stars. For him, Fusion started with the album  Emergency! , where John McLaughlin allegedly had the first chance to combine jazz and rock. In his retrospective review for  Allmusic , Leo Stanley found that the album "shattered the boundaries between jazz and rock" with its "dense, adventurous, unpredictable soundscapes" and rated the album with five stars out of five. Dennis Polkow of the Chicago Tribune wrote that, despite the questionable sound quality of the album, the music has an "energy and spirit" unmatched in Fusion. For Hernan M. Campbell of Sputnikmusic.com, the album "is undeniably one of the most significant efforts that have helped take jazz music to the next level." Less enthusiastic are Richard Cook and Brian Morton in The Penguin Guide to Jazz , who said that Rate album only 3.5 out of 5 stars.

literature

  • Kevin Fellezs, Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion, Duke University Press, 2011,  ISBN 0-8223-5047-5
  • JD Considine, Tony Williams, In: The Rolling Stone Album Guide, 3rd Edition, Random House, 1992,  ISBN 0-679-73729-4
  • Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz, 7th Edition, Penguin Books, 2004,  ISBN 0-14-101416-4

Web links

  • Emergency! at www.discogs.com
  • Emergency! at www.allmusic.com
  • Emergency! at www.allaboutjazz.com

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Emergency! at www.discogs.com. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Kevin Fellezs: Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion. Duke University Press, 2011, ISBN 0-8223-5047-5 , pp. 271 .
  3. ↑ Emergency! at www.allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Jazz-Rock Fusion - Miles and His Disciples. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Emergency! at www.allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved July 1, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Consumer Guide (9). Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  7. ^ JD Considine: Tony Williams . In: The Rolling Stone Album Guide . 3. Edition. Random House, 1992, ISBN 0-679-73729-4 , pp. 772 .
  8. ↑ Emergency! at www.allmusic.com. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Emergency! at articles.chicagotribune.com. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Emergency! at www.sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved July 1, 2017 .
  11. ^ Richard Cook and Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz . 7th edition. Penguin Books, 2004, ISBN 0-14-101416-4 , pp. 995 .