Emergency
Context
First album by Tony Williams's trio with John McLaughlin and Larry Young, Emergency! is often presented as one of the founding acts of jazz-rock. The title track, written by Williams, mixes free jazz, modal jazz and British rock according to researcher Christopher Meeder; Mojo saw in it "the jazz-rock equivalent of Are You Experienced?"
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk. Among the origins and influences of Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk: Modal, Soul jazz, boogaloo, Hard bop, Free jazz, Brazilian instrumental music, Indo-jazz, Modern big bands, Clube da Esquina (Minas Gerais).