Art Blakey / Tony Williams Group - Munich 1972

Here's a delightful funky little show starring both Art Blakey and Tony Williams! On keys there's the great George Cables (back to work after serious illness - all the best, George!) and on flute, there's Jeremy Steig.

This is stylistically another bit of a departure, and a foray into funky late 60s/early 70s territory (before jazz rock and so-called "fusion" got all formulas and all the creativity dried up). I hope you'll enjoy it!

Thanks go to the seeder on dime, I performed a couple of small edits only in this case - a very fine recording!


Art Blakey @ Monterey Jazz Festival 1972
Photo by Paul Slaughter

Art Blakey - Tony Williams - Group
Jazz Now Festival
München (Germany)
August 18, 1972

Jeremy Steig - flute
George Cables - piano, electric piano
Stanley Clarke - bass
Art Blakey - drums, voice
Tony Williams - drums
Ray Mantilla - timbales, congas, bongos
Buck Clarke - gong, bells, congas, african drums

1. Announcement AB (2:32)
2. Swamp Carol (Steig-Hammer) > Announcement AB (13:54)
3. Rita (George Cables) > Announcement AB (10:01)
4. Virginia (George Cables) > Announcement AB (13:24)
5. Cubano Chant (Ray Bryant) 23:13
6. unknown (9:25) [inc]

TT: 72:34

Sound: A
Source: SBD
No lineage info
Additional lineage #5/6: FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro (fixed mark, deleted silence, added fade-out at end of #5) > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

::ubu's edits::
mark 5/6 was too early, following a bit of silence
> fixed mark, added fade-out at end of #5
the last 21 seconds of #6 were silent
> deleted