The influence of drummer Tony Williams, who died in 1997 at the age of 51, on the development of 'electric jazz' has proved invaluable. He caused a revelation in the development of drumming when improvised jazz music began to break the boundaries with rock and funk. However, his band Lifetime never broke through to the general public in the way Miles Davis's Bitches Brew did. However, Lifetime is
… considered an indelible influence on the genre among musicians. Reason enough for drummer Jack DeJohnette to shake up the world once more with Trio Beyond with a tribute to Williams. John McLaughlin's original guitar parts were replaced by John Scofield's, and where Larry Young used to mann the organ, this was now done by Larry Goldings. The double CD Saudades not only features music from Lifetime, but follows Williams's entire career from Seven Steps To Heaven, the first piece he recorded with Miles Davis at the age of seventeen. (AD)more