September 06, 2010

It's Jazz Rock Time - Tony Williams Lifetime, Soft Machine & Association P.C. live at Berliner Jazztage 1971

Lifetime:
Larry "Khalid Yasin" Young (org)
Ted Dunbar (elg)
Juini Booth (elb)
Tony Williams (dr, voc)

recorded live at Philharmonie, Berlin, Berliner Jazztage November 7, 1971

1. Medley: Life of the party/ Changing man (fragment)


Soft Machine:
Mike Ratledge (org, fender rhodes)
Elton Dean (as, saxello, fender rhodes)
Hugh Hopper (elb)
Philip Howard (dr)

recorded live at Philharmonie, Berlin, Berliner Jazztage November 7, 1971

2. Medley: Neo-Caliban grides/ All white/ Slightly all the time (fragment)


Association P.C.:
Jasper van't Hof (keyb)
Toto Blanke (elg)
Siegfried "Sigi" Busch (b)
Pierre Courbois (dr)

recorded live at Philharmonie, Berlin, Berliner Jazztage November 7, 1971

3. Soft time in a life machine
4. Solar Plexus (fragment)


This legendary concert from the Berliner Jazztage (now Jazzfest Berlin) 1971 featured three bands playing Jazz-Rock featured Tony Williams Lifetime, Soft Machine from UK and Association P.C. from the Netherlands, the last one playing a tribute to the others (Soft time in a life machine).
Sorry for delivering only fragments of the very lengthy tunes, but these parts are the only surviving recordings of this concert

4 comments:

bogard said...

Lifetime: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XSOFFR9U

Soft Machine: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9BMQJ3LF

Association P.C.: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R19JINGK

Cooljazz said...

Thank you for the Tony Williams post.

Anonymous said...

I have problems downloading the Tony Williams file. Maybe you might upload it again?

Was this broadcasted recently, or did it come from your archive (or whatever you call it). I like it very much.

Thanks again

bogard said...

Just try again, there are some problems from time to time, but in the meantime it works...
This concert was broadcast about half a year ago.