Tony Williams is tagged as: jazz, fusion, drums, jazz fusion, drummer Tony Williams is the name of more than one artist.|1) American jazz drummer|2) Video game music composer 1) Tony Williams (December 12, 1945 – February 23, 1997) was an American jazz drummer. Born in Chicago and growing up in Boston, Williams began studies with master drummer Alan Dawson at an early age and began playing professionally at the age of 13 with saxophonist Sam Rivers. Jackie McLean hired Williams at 16. Then at 17, Williams found considerable fame with Miles Davis, joining a group that was later dubbed Davis’s “Second Great Quintet.” Williams was a vital element of the group, called by Davis in his autobiography “the center of the group’s sound”. His inventive playing helped redefine the role of jazz rhythm section through the use of polyrhythms and metric modulation (transitioning between mathematically related tempos and/or time signatures). But perhaps his overarching achievement was in demonstrating, through his playing, that the drummer need not be relegated to timekeeping and accompaniment in a jazz ensemble; that the drummer may be free to contribute to the performance as an equal partner in the improvisation. In 1969, he formed a trio, The Tony Williams Lifetime (with John McLaughlin on guitar and Larry Young ... Read More About Tony Williams Biography...  Send Tony Williams ringtones to your cell
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