The Tony Williams' Lifetime - Emergency. A great drummer who once played for Miles Davis. Teamed with John McLaughlin on guitars and some organ player whose name escapes me this 1969 jazz/rock fusion album just plain sux. Everything about this is awful. Crappy vocals from Tony. Lack of instrumentation - just drum/guitar/organ throughout. John's guitar is so distorted and fuzzed that he flat out sounds terrible. The music was massively chaotic and unorganized. No sense of melody or rhythm. One of the worst fusion albums I've ever heard

that's interesting.. I've always thought that this was one of THE jazz fusion albums, right up there with *****ES BREW and THE INNER MOUNTING FLAME.. I know the recording quality is pretty bad, but I really dig the performances.. I guess much of the music I enjoy could be labled "massively chaotic" .. I like it when musicians lose control and break free from the contraints of normal, melodic, nice music, and experiement with sound. To me WAY too much fusion suffers from being too nice and pretty. I like it when jazz musicians make a real attempt at rocking and getting ugly and sweaty, and not creating some kind of sleep inducing muzak. But I'm not a fusion expert by a long shot... so take that for what it's worth.

-jar