This Day >> Tony Williams, Once in a Lifetime
February 23rd, 2012
This day (February 23, 1997), in Daly City, California, died Anthony Tillmon ‘Tony’ Williams, an American regarded as one of the most important and influential jazz drummers to come to prominence in the 1960s and who first gained fame in the band of trumpeter Miles Davis and was a pioneer of jazz fusion.
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Video : Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Tony Williams – Agitation (1963) . Tony Williams – 2 Solos Tribute To Miles Davis (1992 ) . Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Wallace Roney, Tony Williams, Ron Carter – So What . Tony Williams, Dizzy,Mccoy Tyner,Ron Carter & Freddie Hubbard – Various . Tony Williams & Stan Getz Quartet – Times Lie ( 1972) . Tony Williams, Jean-Luc Ponty & Stanley Clarke – At Chateauvallon (1972) (1/2) . Tony Williams, Jean-Luc Ponty & Stanley Clarke – At Chateauvallon (1972) (2/2) . Tony Williams – Zildjan Day .