Time Will Tell (Paul Bley album)

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Time Will Tell
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 1995
RecordedJanuary 1994
StudioRainbow Studio
Oslo, Norway
Genre Avant-garde jazz, free jazz, free improvisation
Length67:15
Label ECM
ECM 1537
Producer Manfred Eicher
Paul Bley chronology
Synth Thesis
(1993)
Time Will Tell
(1995)
Chaos
(1998)

Time Will Tell is an album by American jazz pianist Paul Bley recorded in January 1994 and released on ECM a year later. The trio features saxophonist Evan Parker and bassist Barre Phillips. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection. [2]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2½ stars stating "This CD contains a series of mostly thoughtful free improvisations featuring three of the giants of the idiom... Although the results overall are not classic, the music never fails to hold on to one's interest as the three musicians continually think and evolve together". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Paul Bley, Evan Parker & Barre Phillips except as indicated
  1. "Poetic Justice" - 17:22
  2. "Time Will Tell" - 4:25
  3. "Above the Tree Line" - 4:49
  4. "You Will, Oscar, You Will" (Bley, Phillips) - 4:57
  5. "Sprung" - 5:22
  6. "No Questions" - 5:30
  7. "Vine Laces" (Parker, Phillips) - 4:04
  8. "Clawback" (Bley, Parker) - 3:15
  9. "Marsh Tides" - 5:43
  10. "Instance" (Parker, Phillips) - 4:26
  11. "Burlesque" - 7:15

Personnel

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References

  1. ECM discography accessed October 21, 2011
  2. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Paul Bley". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 142. ISBN   978-0-14-103401-0.
  3. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed October 21, 2011