Tony Williams - The Joy Of Flying 1979

This album is … excellent! This killer shuffle on "Going Far" is just great. Jan Hammer does a great job too. The second song "Hip Skip" is an awesome funky song which has Jan Hammer, George Benson, funky bassist Paul Jackson, Michael Brecker and Ralph McDonald. "Hittin on 6" is funky too and has Herbie and Stanley playin'. Now comes the hard-rock part of the album: "Open Fire" - a real hard rockin' song. My favorite song( out of 7 killer cuts)is "Tony" by Stanley Clarke. Gotta love Herbie's playing and Tony's tight grooves.. "ERIS" is another song which has Jan Hammer doing Keyboards and all synths and Tony's awesome drumming - but now it's not funky like on "Going far", now its rocking. Great playing - thayt isy Tony. "Coming Home" is a beatiful song. The only song I couldn't get into is the last one, "Morgan's Motion", which has Tony and Cecil Taylor doing a duo.

Amazon

1 Going Far 4:13

Tony Williams - drums
Keyboards [Fender Rhodes], Synthesizer [Moog, Oberheim, Polymoog] , Written-by, Engineer - Jan Hammer

2 Hip Skip 8:03

Tony Williams - drums
Arranged By [Horns] - William Eaton
Bass - Paul Jackson
Keyboards [Fender Rhodes], Synthesizer [Mini-moog] - Jan Hammer
Percussion - Ralph MacDonald
Saxophone [Alto] - David Sanborn
Saxophone [Baritone] - Ronnie Cuber
Saxophone [Tenor] - Michael Brecker
Trombone - Barry Rogers
Trumpet - Jon Faddis , Randy Brecker
Written-By, Guitar - George Benson

3 Hittin' On 6 6:18

Tony Williams - drums
Bass - Stanley Clarke
Keyboards [Hohner D6 Clavinet, Fender Rhodes], Synthesizer [Mini-moog] - Herbie Hancock
Written-By, Lyricon - Tom Scott

4 Open Fire 6:15

Tony Williams - drums
Bass - Mario Cipollina
Guitar - Ronnie Montrose
Written-By - Edgar Winter , Ronnie Montrose

5 Tony 6:50

Tony Williams - drums
Lyricon - Tom Scott
Piano, Keyboards [Fender Rhodes], Synthesizer [Oberheim, Prophet V] - Herbie Hancock
Written-By, Bass - Stanley Clarke

6 Eris 3:33

Tony Williams - drums
Synthesizer [Moog, Oberheim, Polymoog], Written-by, Engineer - Jan Hammer

7 Coming Back Home 6:06

Tony Williams - drums
Bass - Paul Jackson
Guitar - George Benson
Keyboards [Fender Rhodes], Synthesizer [Moog], Written-by - Jan Hammer

8 Morgan's Motion 8:18

Tony Williams - drums
Written-by, Piano [Bösendörfer Concert Grand Piano] - Cecil Taylor