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Spring (Audio Cassette) [Import]

T Williams (Artist) | Format: Audio Cassette
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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1. Extras
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3.6 out of 5 stars
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars another reason to mourn the early departure of tony williams Jun 2 1999
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
this album from the mid-sixties when mr. williams was still a teenager, reveals his immense talent as a drummer and the driving engine of a jazz ensemble. this album greatly reflects mr. williams work with the then peak quintet in jazz (miles davis, wayne shorter, herbie hancock, ron carter, and williams). the feel is the same modalism that was working magic on albums such as esp, miles smiles, and the sorcerer with davis. the real joy here is hearing sam rivers and shorter together. the two sax men trade some exquisite solos in this set. particularly noteworthy are the longest tracks , extras and tee. the length allows for some great soloing by all the major players worth hearing over and over again. the addition of rivers and bassist gary peacock add an "out" feel to the proceedings, but once again mr. williams proves himself a master of control even when pushing the limits. a truly great album.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A surprisingly subdued Mr. Williams May 16 2003
By Micah Newman
Format:Audio CD
I got turned on to Tony Williams via his incredibly expansive and ear-stretching work with the 60's Miles Davis Quintet. I'll buy anything with him on it, although I've since learned that his best work was with Miles Davis. On _Spring_, Tony's second LP as a leader, he largely sticks to brushes, and even when he doesn't, he sounds as though he is. The tempos are fairly brisk and the drum work still plenty impressive, but his playing is surprisingly quiet most of the way through this album.

Most of _Spring_ consists of interesting free-but-not-exactly-dissonant sketches with varying instrumentation. The opening "Extras" is a double-tenor affair with Sam Rivers and Wayne Shorter twisting and colliding off one another, Gary Peacock's intuitive and quick-minded bass work, Tony backing them up, and no piano. As is typical with all the music on this LP, it sounds like the musicians are really intently listening to one another. It's an intimate setting, one in which you can actually hear the sax players' pads popping. "Echo" is a 5-minute drum solo in which Tony runs through various understated rhythmic ideas in a fairly systematic way. Herbie Hancock joins in on piano for the rest of the tracks, the most overtly tuneful of which is "Love Song", which features Sam Rivers.

This album makes for interesting listening, but it's not quite as satisfying or cohesive as certain other free-but-not-quite-dissonant works such as Herbie Hancock's "The Egg" and "The Collector" (the latter of which is on the CD reissue of Wayne Shorter's _Adam's Apple_). Still, it's a worthy and fairly impressive effort.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars When the boss is away-- Jun 23 2002
By Samuel Chell
Format:Audio CD
Miles' second "great quintet" sans Miles lacks cohesion, focus, purpose, at least on this outing. The "compositions" seem to be titles manufactured after the fact as a way of providing dividers to the free-form meanderings that took place while the tape was running. There are a few sparks created by Rivers and Shorter on the first couple of tracks, but the rest of the album is curiously unengaging. Peacock's unfaltering walking bass lines provide coherence and civility, but this would hardly seem to be the occasion for exercising politeness. And for a Van Gelder-engineered session, Williams' cymbals are surprisingly subdued in the total mix.

If you're a musician, hearing a session like this makes you wish you were taking part in it. I'm more impressed by recordings that "scare" me back into the practice room.

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