Escalator Over The Hill rehearsals, 12/70

Less than two years previously, in December 1970, just as the Tony Williams Lifetime were grinding to a halt, two of its members -- John McLaughlin and Jack Bruce -- took part in sessions for Carla Bley’s self-funded triple album Escalator Over The Hill.  Documentary-maker Steve Gebhardt filmed some of the album’s long gestation and this glimpse, of John and Jack rehearsing with Carla and drummer Paul Motian, was included in his eventual documentary, also titled Escalator Over The Hill (released to limited screenings in 1999 but unavailable commercially).