Believe It | 
 enlarge | Artist: Tony Williams
Label: Columbia Europe
Category: Music
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 57636
Format: Extra Tracks, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099751289821
ASIN: B0001O2BY8
Release Date: November 2, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Snake Oil - Tony Williams, Newton, T. | | • | Fred - Tony Williams, Holdsworth, Allan | | • | Proto-Cosmos - Tony Williams, Pasqua, A. | | • | Red Alert - Tony Williams, Newton, T. | | • | Wildlife - Tony Williams, Williams, T. | | • | Mr. Spock - Tony Williams, Holdsworth, A. | | • | Celebration - Tony Williams, | | • | Letsby - Tony Williams, Holdsworth, A. |
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| Customer Reviews:
 The "great" Tony !!! September 16, 2008
LEROY Fabrice (France, Perigueux)
What a beautiful record, I bought it the first time in 1975 and since, I never stop to listen to it ; Allan Holdsworth ( formely with UK rock circles ), on the guitar, already played wonderfully with his famous sound ; Alan Pasqua on piano and clarinet ( formerly with Stan Kenton, Franck Foster and Don Ellis ), is also fantastic ; Tony Newton on bass ( former Motown bassist )is perfect. This version of Lifetime is more structured than the original 1969 group, built around Tony's explosive approach to rock rhythms . Essential CD in his library !!! Emilio ( France, Dordogne. ).
CLASSIC FUSION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! July 15, 2007
Michael Balazki (Petaluma, CA USA)
I am a jazz-fusion freak. This is a true classic. It's my favorite Tony Williams album, and it has, to me, the definitive fusion sound. This album has Proto Cosmos, which is a song Allan Holdsworth usually opens his live shows with. Every song grooves, has hooks, and rocks. It's close to the perfect fusion album. If you're a musician, then you will love it.
A Fusion Hero! May 11, 2007
Mr. Midnight (Tijeras, NM)
Tony turns it up and rips loose on this album! This is an oldie but goodie! Excellent choice for young drummers just finding out about fusion!
 Distorted gem September 1, 2006
The Swede
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
Musically, this is a great record, a unique snapshot from the jazz-rock fusion scene of the 1970's. It is energetic, raw, full of brilliant and truly original musicianship, not least from Williams and Holdsworth, with its focus on groove and improvisation. From a musical point of view, I'd definitely give it four brightly shining stars.
Technically, however, this 2004 remaster is a disappointment. Following the current "the louder, the better" trend, it has been compressed and limited to death. The dynamics of the original recording are completely lost and life is sucked out of the music. Worst of all, as a result of this headless pumping-up, nasty digital distortion is all over the place, making listening to it a tiring, painful experience.
If you care for the music of this Lifetime gem, do yourself a favour and get "Lifetime: The Collection" instead. It was mastered in 1992, and although the analog to digital converters of the time may have been slightly less refined than they are these days, the dynamics and the over-all listening experience are far superior.
Ferocious July 12, 2005
Boxodreams (district of columbia)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
When my hormones and testosterone were raging like weeds in spring, oh, at about age 14, but, still, my brain was into musical stuff my little underdeveloped friends couldn't even hope to understand, well, that's when this thing dropped. It's not that "Believe It" scared me, but it blew me back against the wall with a shock so powerful, it never stopped reverberating. Here, after forays into all sorts of strange jazz-rock-funk places, the late great drummer stripped it down to a ruthless core and amped up everything until the precision monster was ready to be unleashed. His drum attack is nothing like the amazing, poly-rhythmic extrapolations of the Miles Davis years. This is hurricane power of another kind. There is nuance -- roar, low roar and simmer-to-boil. Williams and guitarist Allan Holdsworth simply crackle together in a way they wouldn't come close to matching on the pathetic bid for record sales that followed, "Million Dollar Legs." They just beat each other up for six tracks (bonus ones, I see, on the CD) while bassist and keyboardist plodded along and tried to stay out of the way. Check that: Alan Pasqua has a couple nice moments, but mostly it's a two-man show. I don't think this group was onto anything because they were already depleted by the second release. It had less to say than contemporaries -- say, Mahavishnu Orchestra, for example -- so petered out quicker. But this is a cornerstone of fusion, whether you've heard of it or not. Big, crisp, bludgeoning with fireworks of the best kind. While compositionally a cut below, it stands next to Billy Cobham's "Spectrum" for raw power.
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