![]() No, this group treats every piece as nothing more than a roadmap, something with a predefined beginning and end, where what happens in the middle is completely up to the dynamics of the night, the audience, the performers, all the various things that contribute to making players play the way they do. Nothing resembling this structure occurs on the seven-minute "Eye of the Hurricane" on disc one. On the eleven-minute "Eye of the Hurricane" on disc two, Shorter's tenor solo breaks down into a lone voice as everyone else halts Carter re-enters gracefully, soon followed by Williams as the piece shifts into a half-time blues that then, with total empathy and telepathy, returns to the double-time modal vamp that signals the start of Hancock's solo. There are no such things as prearranged solo order, length or treatment. What is striking, after spending over two-and-a-half hours with Hancock, Williams, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, saxophonist Wayne Shorter and bassist Ron Carter, is how open their approach to the material is. The second revelation comes after listening to the entire two discs: with the exception of two short addendums on disc two, both performances consist of exactly the same set list in exactly the same order. There are many fine drummers on the scene today, but few who will ultimately have the same level of significance, consequence and sheer trend-setting that Williams had in his all-too-short life. But few drummers in the history of jazz ever combined reckless abandon with such a big set of ears.Īll too often the punctuations that a drummer provides seem like arbitrary markers, non sequiturs that are interesting but somehow all too random on the other hand, every shot, every crash, every effortless display of frightening technique that Williams demonstrates is filled with meaning and purpose. Sure, there are drummers out there today who have the energy and unbridled passion that Williams had. ![]() The thought? How much drummer Tony Williams is truly missed. The first comes about eight bars into the first track on the first disc. ![]() quintet's Live Under the Sky, but two are essential. There are a number of revelations on this remastered reissue of pianist Herbie Hancock and the V.S.O.P. ![]()
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