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Beat Club has released newly found footage from 1970 of the Tony Williams Lifetime group, featuring John McLaughlin, Jack Bruce, and Larry Young.
Lifetime is arguably the first Fusion group, and as such its reception with the general public was not overly warm at the time. If you step outside of envelopes, Jazz and Rock in this case, you violate audience expectations, and you drag them, kicking, screaming and confused, into new and uncharted territory. The group with Jack Bruce included is the second iteration of Lifetime--the first iteration was even a bit more outside and challenging. The group was as huge an influence on musicians as it was a commercial flop with the confused public.
It is my understanding that Bill Laswell has remastered all Polydor’s recordings of Lifetime for free, as a labour of love, in an effort to get the label to re-release the tracks. The tracks, however, I believe, still sit in the can.
Here the group performs a Jack Bruce tune that Bruce recorded for his Harmony Row album.
Lifetime is arguably the first Fusion group, and as such its reception with the general public was not overly warm at the time. If you step outside of envelopes, Jazz and Rock in this case, you violate audience expectations, and you drag them, kicking, screaming and confused, into new and uncharted territory. The group with Jack Bruce included is the second iteration of Lifetime--the first iteration was even a bit more outside and challenging. The group was as huge an influence on musicians as it was a commercial flop with the confused public.
It is my understanding that Bill Laswell has remastered all Polydor’s recordings of Lifetime for free, as a labour of love, in an effort to get the label to re-release the tracks. The tracks, however, I believe, still sit in the can.
Here the group performs a Jack Bruce tune that Bruce recorded for his Harmony Row album.
