Precocious and gifted drummer and composer Tony Williams was already a member of the Miles Davis Quintet and had played on numerous seminal Blue Note recordings including Herbie Hancock "Empyrean Isles", Eric Dolphy "Out To Lunch", Andrew Hill "Point Of Departure", Jackie McLean "One Step Beyond" and Grachan Moncur III "Evolution" when he recorded his own adventurous debut album "Life Time" in August 1964, when he was just 18 years old.