Emergency!

Emergency!
Studio album by The Tony Williams Lifetime
Released	1969 October 28, 1997 (reissue)
Genre	Jazz Psychedelic rock Fusion
Length	70:24
Label	Polydor/PolyGram Records 849 068 Verve/PolyGram Records 539 117 (1997 reissue)
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The Tony Williams Lifetime chronology
Emergency! (1969) Turn it Over (1970)

Emergency! is a double album by The Tony Williams Lifetime. Released in 1969, it was the group's first album and one of the first significant jazz fusion recordings^[1]. It has commonly been regarded as a pioneering, influential, and original album in the jazz, rock, and fusion genres. The musical genres the band ventured into on the album included funk, psychedelic rock, hard bop, and even stretches of a kind of proto-ambient music, filtered through jazz's improvisational ideal. Williams could also be heard singing on the record, on the songs "Beyond Games," "Where," "Via the Spectrum Road," and "Sangria for Three." 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, A Tribute to Jack Johnson, and On the Corner. 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.

Track listing

1. "Emergency" (Williams) – 9:35
2. "Beyond Games" (Williams) – 8:17
3. "Where" (McLaughlin) – 12:10
4. "Vashkar" (Bley) – 4:59
5. "Via the Spectrum Road" (McLaughlin, Williams) – 7:49
6. "Spectrum" (McLaughlin) – 8:50
7. "Sangria for Three" (Williams) – 13:07
8. "Something Special" (Herman) – 5:37

Personnel

• John McLaughlin – Guitar
• Tony Williams – Drums
• Larry Young – Organ

Production

• Elaine Gongora – Cover Design
• James Isaacs – Liner Notes
• Monte Kay – Producer
• Jack Lewis – Producer
• Sid Maurer – Art Direction, Photography
• Joseph M. Palmaccio – Digital Mastering, Editing
• Gene Radice – Engineer, Mixing
• Paul Ramey – Reissue Producer
• Phil Schaap – Liner Notes, Remastering, Restoration
• Richard Seidel – Reissue Producer

References

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