Released January 2009 Release date January 2009 | Length 56:27 | |
Recorded August 14, 2006 – September 17, 2007 Similar Ravi Coltrane albums, Post-bop albums, Other albums | ||
Blending Times is Ravi Coltrane's fifth album as a band leader, and second for Savoy Records.
Contents
Five of the tracks on this album are group improvisations "conceived and directed by Ravi Coltrane" that don't follow a standard time signature or preset measures lengths, reminiscent of free jazz popularized by Ornette Coleman.
The album's final track, "For Turiya," is a eulogy for Alice Coltrane, Ravi's mother, the wife of John Coltrane and a musician in her own right, who died during the album's recording.
Blending Times reached 36 on Billboard's Jazz Albums Chart, his second time making the chart.
Track listing
All compositions by Ravi Coltrane, except where noted
- "Shine" (Luis Perdomo) – 5:49
- "First Circuit" – 3:45
- "A Still Life" – 6:17
- "Epistrophy" (Kenny Clarke, Thelonious Monk) – 7:48
- "Amalgams" – 4:18
- "Narcined" – 4:49
- "One Wheeler Will" (Ralph Alessi) – 7:31
- "The Last Circuit" – 4:18
- "Before With After" – 2:49
- "For Turiya" (Charlie Haden) – 9:03
Personnel
Songs
1Shine5:49
2First Circuit3:45
3A Still Life6:17
References
Blending Times Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA