Emergency! (album)
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| Studio album by The Tony Williams Lifetime | ||||
| Released | 1969 | |||
| Genre | Jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 70:24 | |||
| Label | Polydor, Polygram | |||
| Producer | Monte Kay, Jack Lewis | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  |
| Chicago Tribune | |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz |  |
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| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| Sputnikmusic | 5/5 |
| The Village Voice | A |
Emergency! is the debut double album by American jazz fusion group The Tony Williams Lifetime. It was released in 1969 and was one of the first significant jazz fusion recordings.
On the album, the band experiments with a wide range of genres including funk, psychedelic rock, hard bop, blues and free jazz. Williams can also be heard singing on the record on the songs "Beyond Games", "Where", and "Via the Spectrum Road". It was during John McLaughlin's tenure with the band that Williams introduced the young guitarist to Miles Davis, who was conducting his own fusion explorations at the time. This introduction led to McLaughlin playing on some of Davis's most acclaimed and influential albums, including In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew and A Tribute to Jack Johnson. Davis had a particular influence on the band, as Williams had played in his Second Great Quintet with Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Herbie Hancock, and Larry Young would go on to record on Bitches Brew.
Emergency! was originally released in 1969 by Polydor Records and Polygram Records. In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau called the album a "stunner" and hailed Williams as "probably the best drummer in the world". The record was later reissued on CD by Verve Records and Polygram in 1997.
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