[SACD-R][OF] Tony Williams - Young at Heart - 1997/1999 (Contemporary Jazz)

Bass – Ira Coleman
Drums – Tony Williams
Piano – Mulgrew Miller

Williams was playing with Sam Rivers by the age of 13, & with Miles Davis by 17. Miles’ ‘Live At The Plugged Nickel’ sessions display the genius not so much of Miles Davis but of an incredible young drummer already at the top of his game.
DSD recording:
This is a historic session, because it is Sony’s 1st commercially released DSD recording, made in Tokyo in September 1996.

This would be the drummer’s last recording, cut 6 months before he died. It shows Williams in a more conciliatory mood, sublimating his huge chops & bombastic style for subtler shadings & support for pianist Mulgrew Miller & bassist Ira Coleman, while lessening none of his indefatigable swing. This was also the last band Williams toured with, indicating he was committed to & comfortable with the acoustic piano-bass-drums format. It’s a setting he had never really fully exploited over his years of leadership, no doubt inspired by the Herbie Hancock-Ron Carter partnership within the Miles Davis quintet of the mid-’60s. On the 6 standards present, Miller shines like a million facet diamond, his ultra-bright ideas swimming happily in this cauldron of crackling rhythms. The pianist peculiarly reharmonizes — perhaps even shifts keys — on 6 bars of the 1st line of the ballad “Body & Soul” & hits the kicker, his composition “Promethean,” hard & strong, ripping off boppish melodic & harmonic phrases as if child’s play. Williams trades 4s on “Promethean” & the bass-led feature for Coleman during “You & the Night & the Music”; he also busts out with his typical triplet & quadruplet fury for the solidly swinging, slightly reharmonized “On Green Dolphin Street.” The trio also recapitulates the previously larger-ensemble Williams original “Neptune” in a more pensive, poised, Aquarian mode than the caravan processional of the earlier recording. Miller’s extraordinary modal chord extrapolations at the end are stunningly beautiful. Although this might not be viewed by fans as typical of Tony Williams, it is a logical conclusion to a brilliant career in jazz, & holds up high the lofty improvisational values he kept close to his vest, but near to our hearts. Recommended.

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