Time Line (Ralph Towner album)

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Time Line
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Studio album by
Ralph Towner
ReleasedMarch 2006 [1]
RecordedSeptember 2005
Studio Propstei Sankt Gerold
Sankt Gerold, Austria
Genre Jazz
Length43:46
Label ECM
ECM 1968
Producer Manfred Eicher
Ralph Towner chronology
Anthem
(2001)		Time Line
(2006)		From a Dream
(2008)

Time Line is a solo album by American guitarist Ralph Towner recorded at the Propstei Sankt Gerold in September 2005 and released on ECM the following year. [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic awarded the album 4 star with the review by Thom Jurek, stating, "this is a brief but utterly captivating issue from one of the music's great composers and theorists that should not be missed by anyone interested in Towner, of course, but also in melodic improvisation and composition." [3]

The Penguin Jazz Guide said, "Time Line is a supremely professional record, mostly done in miniatures which couldn't be improved by so much as a note." [5]

Track listing

All compositions by Ralph Towner except where noted

  1. "The Pendant" - 4:11
  2. "Oleander Etude" - 1:59
  3. "Always By Your Side" - 2:52
  4. "The Hollows" - 3:23
  5. "Anniversary Song" - 1:53
  6. "If" - 4:38
  7. "Five Glimpses I" - 1:01
  8. "Five Glimpses II" - 0:47
  9. "Five Glimpses III" - 0:50
  10. "Five Glimpses IV" - 0:49
  11. "Five Glimpses V" - 0:25
  12. "The Lizards of Eraclea" - 2:38
  13. "Turning of the Leaves" - 3:45
  14. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen) - 4:14
  15. "Freeze Frame" - 4:54
  16. "My Man's Gone Now" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:27

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Time Line". ECM .
  2. ↑ ECM discography accessed October 26, 2011
  3. 1 2 Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed October 26, 2011
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1412. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ↑ Morton, Brian; Richard Cook (2010) [1992]. The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (10th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 709. ISBN   978-0-14-104831-4.
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