Emergency! by The Tony Williams Lifetime (1969)

Super heavy, dense, raw and aggressive music. An exceptional entry point into this era of jazz if you're more of a rock person.

“Here is where we take a giant step into the future,” Lester Bangs wrote of Emergency! in a Rolling Stone review — going on to characterize Williams, McLaughlin, and Young as “jazz musicians who have seen through the smog of pop artifice and picked up on the very best that rock has to offer, making their music a totally unique entity.” Nailed it better than I ever could.


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