Million Dollar Legs (album)
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Million Dollar Legs is the second album by The New Tony Williams Lifetime, released in 1976 on Columbia Records
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The album features the jazz fusion
drummer Tony Williams with Allan Holdsworth
, Alan Pasqua
and Tony Newton. The Allmusic review awards this album with 1 star. In 1992 Columbia released all of the tracks from Million Dollar Legs and Believe It
on the album Lifetime: The Collection
.
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
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The album features the jazz fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...
drummer Tony Williams with Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth is an English guitarist and composer. He has released twelve studio albums as a solo artist and played many different styles of music over a period of four decades, but first drew attention for his work in jazz fusion...
, Alan Pasqua
Alan Pasqua
Alan Pasqua is a jazz pianist, educator and composer who co-composed the CBS Evening News theme. He also has had an extensive career in pop and rock music, most notably as a founding member, keyboardist and songwriter of the 80s hard rock band, Giant. He studied at Indiana University and the New...
and Tony Newton. The Allmusic review awards this album with 1 star. In 1992 Columbia released all of the tracks from Million Dollar Legs and Believe It
Believe It
Believe It is the first album by The New Tony Williams Lifetime, released in 1975 on Columbia Records.The New Lifetime was a jazz fusion band formed by the drummer Tony Williams with Allan Holdsworth on guitar, Alan Pasqua on keyboards and Tony Newton on bass...
on the album Lifetime: The Collection
Lifetime: The Collection
Lifetime: The Collection is a compilation album by The New Tony Williams Lifetime, released in 1992 on Columbia/Legacy Records.The album contains all of the music from the two original New Lifetime albums Believe It and Million Dollar Legs...
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Track listing
- "Sweet Revenge" (Tony Williams) — 6:03
- "You Did It to Me Baby" (Williams, A. Cleveland) — 3:45
- "Million Dollar Legs" (Williams) — 6:38
- "Joy Filled Summer" (Tony Newton) — 5:50
- "Lady Jane" (Alan PasquaAlan PasquaAlan Pasqua is a jazz pianist, educator and composer who co-composed the CBS Evening News theme. He also has had an extensive career in pop and rock music, most notably as a founding member, keyboardist and songwriter of the 80s hard rock band, Giant. He studied at Indiana University and the New...
) — 3:56 - "What You Do to Me" (Williams) — 6:38
- "Inspirations of Love" (Newton) — 9:48
Personnel
- Allan HoldsworthAllan HoldsworthAllan Holdsworth is an English guitarist and composer. He has released twelve studio albums as a solo artist and played many different styles of music over a period of four decades, but first drew attention for his work in jazz fusion...
– guitar - Alan PasquaAlan PasquaAlan Pasqua is a jazz pianist, educator and composer who co-composed the CBS Evening News theme. He also has had an extensive career in pop and rock music, most notably as a founding member, keyboardist and songwriter of the 80s hard rock band, Giant. He studied at Indiana University and the New...
– keyboards - Tony Newton – bass, vocals
- Tony Williams – drums
- String and horn arrangements by Jack NitzscheJack NitzscheBernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche was an arranger, producer, songwriter, and film score composer. He first came to prominence in the late 1950s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on to work with the Rolling Stones, Neil Young and others...
- Recorded June, 1976, Caribou Ranch Studios, Nederland, Colorado