"Right On" by The Tony Williams Lifetime, one of Ivy's favourites today!

"Letsby" by The New Tony Williams Lifetime.

 

Wednesday

The second movement of Schubert's String Quintet, as performed by The Takács Quartet and Miklós Perényi.

"Calling Out The Blue Light" by Arcana. From one of Tony Williams' last recordings, Arc Of The Testimony.

"La Fiesta" by Stan Getz. Gloriously fun opening to his Captain Marvel album with percussive genius courtesy of Tony Williams and Airto Moreira.

...and here's some Kyuss:

Continuing the theme of glorious insanity, here's "Khalid of Space Part Two - Welcome" by Larry Young. I first came across Young as he was part of The Tony Williams Lifetime (more on that group later), and took a chance by buying a copy of his Lawrence of Newark album. One of the stranger albums in my collection, certainly not jazz for a Sunday evening! Perhaps it should be...

The Tony Williams Lifetime's first album, Emergency!, ran headlong between jazz and rock music. This is "Vashkar", which features some frankly sensational work from one of the greatest geniuses ever to sit behind a drum kit, Tony Williams. Metal fans might spot blast beats from 1969!

On a completely different note, I've been enjoying Alban Gerhardt and Steven Osborne's recordings (for Hyperion) of Alkan's and Chopin's Cello Sonatas. Here's the first movement of Alkan's, which I think is the better of the two pieces: