Miles Davis - Agitation(1967)

[MrGutentag69]

Tony Williams is god

[hiptromhopbone]

This Cool has never been topped.

[applesomething]

These are scientists.

[bjroberts65]

@ 0:09 MILES SMILES

[tthueson]

Tony was 22 when this was recorded. 22! I still lived with my parents and could barely check the oil in my car back then. While all of the people involved in civil unrest at this time in America were "making their mark", these cats were doing their thing and making a statement that will long outlive all of the garbage that was coming from the universities and inner cities. IMHO.

[HiImJerry8]

man tony williams is sick!

[slowuncle]

This is a GREAT performance----Wayne's solo simply will not rely on autopilot and Herbie dances on the highwire, even though Tony starts wiggling the wire on him 2/3's into his solo

great stuff

thank you for posting!!!

[loboarmado]

you've never ask yourself how will it sound if god played the trumpet.... well there you go.

[BigHornCanyon]

@loboarmado

you can hear god play trumpet in Ben Hur when Charlton Heston rides the chariot.

or maybe that's a stand-in.

[ponchocervantes]

his greatest unit...

[Timok67]

hot damn i love jazz

[MrBeaver11000]

Tony Williams plays so crazy and fast ?!

MAD BOY !

[FunkySkunk90]

Shorter's Solo is out of this very world.

[imakery]

@FunkySkunk90 Correction, Shorter is out of this very world

[xylotone0110]

Im glad that this was recorded to video ; as the quintet - due reasons beyond their control - couldnt stick around for the last 4 or 5 dates od the tour . I think the tour promoter of the jazz festival which toured almost all of Europe wasn't paying Miles and the quintet what was accorded .. This is a very high energy performance . Seek out the Audio CD if you can , Miles in Europe 1967 ( It consists this entire set , plus one from Sweden }

[ruffbizness]

My favorite quintet!

[MLaruelle]

great quintet

all of them becamed great artists

[redSuikoden]

I am sorry but you are wrong, these guys were already great artists since the dawn of man.

[miketalbot4]

This is great footage.

[bjroberts65]

the one and only ...........miles davis.

[rogerjonesII]

greatest!!!!!

[OstrOsized]

God dammit these guys are tearin' it up, as always! Seriously, it doesn't get much better than these guys.

[xylotone0110]

This quintet really got down . I wish there were more viedo of them ; but i think i ve read that that s very scarce I guess we got to cherish all that we have . May god bless these monumental jazz gods - Shorter , Miles , Tony W and Ron Carter ..

[BatKid1366642]

who´s the pianist?

[bigdumbchimp]

herbie hancock

[smile2drum]

Tony Williams's drumming made me want to switch from guitar to drums when I was 18. I did. Looking at these videos reminds me why I did and also reminds me that I NEED TO GO PRACTICE! THANKS!

[scalpyxb]

rien a dire, parfait, indémodable

[elsegno]

Has anybody payed attention to the distance between the top and the bottom hats?

[oskarveliky]

Yes. Very interesting. But I think, that we dont have do be worried, if it is wrong or not, because it was Tonys hi-hat... So what do we know about drumming anyway, huh?

[ltzasz]

My school had a crappy hi-hat stand where the rod would slide down, causing the top hat to raise. I think that's what happened here. Tony adjusts his hat's half way through the song probably to fix this, but they just kept going higher. That's my take on it, at least. Doesn't matter though, Tony still sounds fantastic.

[forkburn01]

We can only guess at why Tony thought this beneficial, but at least I can say that his foot technique enables him to set the hi-hat like this. His toes are always pressing down on the pedal and his heel never touches ground, it's almost like a leg-centered technique. As such, I would guess that the huge gap enables the hi-hat to better match the natural motion of his leg when he works the foot splash. And he is utterly brilliant at that.

[ghostofdolphy]

Oh yea. Tony loved to splash the hats like crazy. That man really could INCREASE the size of his drumkit.

[jeffreyburr]

they are all listening. and have nice suits.

[jlslavin]

Tony Williams should be brought back from the dead and made Ruler of the Universe. Thanks for posting that Masters Class in "listening".

[drumbum1010]

whoooooooooooooooooooooooot!!!­!!!!! so frkn awesome.....