Williams, Anthony

Williams, Anthony
▪ 1998

      , American musician (b. Dec. 12, 1945, Chicago, Ill.—d. Feb. 23, 1997, Daly City, Calif.), exploded onto the national jazz scene shortly after his 17th birthday to become a major innovator in jazz percussion. A drummer from age eight, he was already a well-known musician in Boston in 1962 when alto saxophonist Jackie McLean invited him to New York City to perform during Christmas week. He played on McLean's noted modal jazz album One Step Beyond before joining Miles Davis the following May, and he also played on Eric Dolphy's groundbreaking album Out to Lunch. Williams made his major impact with Davis's 1963-69 quintet, creating rhythmic tension in the band with his accompaniments. Joined by guitarist John McLaughlin, Williams then formed the Tony Williams Lifetime, one of the first and most-praised jazz-rock groups. After a few years of inactivity (1973-75), he formed a second Lifetime but spent most of the rest of his career with straightforward jazz groups, including V.S.O.P., a reunion band of former Davis sidemen, with the Great Jazz Trio, and with his own combos. Always an aggressive, dramatic player, he accompanied with powerful arrhythmic accenting and dynamic contrasts, altering tempo and metre at will, then soloed without reference to metre; in later years he emphasized virtuoso technique and dense layers of cross-rhythms. Studies in classical composition at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1980s led to his composing Rituals. The piece was performed by the Kronos (string) Quartet together with Williams and pianist Herbie Hancock. Williams contributed to A Tribute to Miles (1994), which won a Grammy award, and joined fusion and classical music in Wilderness, his last album.

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