Time on My Hands (John Scofield album)

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Time on My Hands
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ReleasedApril 3, 1990 [1] (CD, LP)
RecordedNovember 19–21, 1989
Studio Power Station, New York City
Genre Jazz, post-bop
Length63:19 (CD)
46:43 (vinyl)
Label Blue Note
Producer
John Scofield chronology
Flat Out
(1989)
Time on My Hands
(1990)
Slo Sco:The Best of the Ballads
(1990)
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Time on My Hands is a studio album by jazz musician John Scofield. Featuring tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano, veteran bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Jack DeJohnette. It was the first of seven studio albums Scofield released on Blue Note Records from 1990-1999. It was also the first of Scofield's records to feature Lovano, who went on to record several more quartet albums and tour with Scofield in the early 1990s.

Contents

Track listing

All compositions written by John Scofield

  1. "Wabash III" – 6:20
  2. "Since You Asked" – 6:10
  3. "So Sue Me" – 5:58
  4. "Let's Say We Did" – 4:22
  5. "Flower Power" – 4:57
  6. "Stranger to the Light" – 7:27
  7. "Nocturnal Mission" – 4:13
  8. "Farmacology" – 6:40
  9. "Time and Tide" – 5:48 (CD only)
  10. "Be Hear Now" – 6:50 (CD only)
  11. "Fat Lip" – 3:45 (CD only)

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. Release date according to Scofield's homepage.
  2. Time on My Hands at AllMusic
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1274. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.