Interesting. Good luck finding a publisher — I think there’d definitely be an audience for a serious biography of Williams; I feel like he’s even more revered in certain circles now than he was when he was alive.
(deleted in error) There is no evidence whatsoever of Tony Williams’ dislike of George Coleman’s saxophone playing, other than that alleged by Miles Davis and that implied, without referring to the drummer specifically and exclusively, by Coleman himself. There is no record of which I am aware of Williams saying anything at all on the matter and no criticism on record from either Ron Carter or Herbie Hancock. Furthermore there is evidence to suggest that Davis’ comments have, through repetition, completely distorted the reality. For example, if Williams, Carter and/or Hancock had misgivings, how to explain Coleman’s presence on the Hancock classic, Maiden Voyage recorded no more than a year after he had left the Davis group? I discuss the whole situation in a recently completed biography of Tony Williams in which I shall be attempting to interest a publisher over the next weeks and months.
Interesting. Good luck finding a publisher — I think there’d definitely be an audience for a serious biography of Williams; I feel like he’s even more revered in certain circles now than he was when he was alive.
(deleted in error) There is no evidence whatsoever of Tony Williams’ dislike of George Coleman’s saxophone playing, other than that alleged by Miles Davis and that implied, without referring to the drummer specifically and exclusively, by Coleman himself. There is no record of which I am aware of Williams saying anything at all on the matter and no criticism on record from either Ron Carter or Herbie Hancock. Furthermore there is evidence to suggest that Davis’ comments have, through repetition, completely distorted the reality. For example, if Williams, Carter and/or Hancock had misgivings, how to explain Coleman’s presence on the Hancock classic, Maiden Voyage recorded no more than a year after he had left the Davis group? I discuss the whole situation in a recently completed biography of Tony Williams in which I shall be attempting to interest a publisher over the next weeks and months.