I encourage all rock drummers, in particular, to explore Tony’s playing to learn how he influenced much of what we play.
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“Believe It” is the name of Williams’ 1975 album with this new band line-up: Allan Holdsworth (guitar), Alan Pasqua (keyboards) and Tony Newton (bass).
Read moreDavid Garibaldi: My Time With A Master - Remembering Tony Williams
My teaching studio was directly across the hall from his, where he was conducting group classes. I could hear him in there sounding like he sounded on all those Miles and Herbie recordings. Cool stuff. Because we were right there close, we started hanging out after our teaching sessions and basically just bullshitting about everything.
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