Tony Williams - Play Or DieTony Williams certainly counts among those unique drummers in jazz today, whose work has had a lasting influence on styles and still does. At the tender age of 16, saxophonist Jackie McLean brought him to his band in New York. He also made his first recording with McLean. Soon after, aged 17, Williams was already making a splash in the second Miles Davis Quintet. Almost twenty years later, in 1980, on May 30 and 31, Tony Williams went to the

It is a purely digital affair and it's releases originally came out as downloads only

The music on this CD puts the composer

The physical distance does little to dampen the sense of communal ease that holds tight at the album's core

who wants to bridge what he was and what he has become

"Mesmerizing

"Chicken and Biscuits" (featuring James Otto)

Melora Hardin

Proving to be talented despite naysayers

but just listen to the drums

took his own life at the age of 49

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