Blending Times

Blending Times is Ravi Coltrane's fifth album as a band leader, and second for Savoy Records.

Blending Times
Studio album by
Ravi Coltrane
ReleasedJanuary 2009
RecordedAugust 14, 2006 – September 17, 2007
GenreJazz
Post-bop[1]
Length56:27
LabelSavoy Records
ProducerRavi Coltrane
Ravi Coltrane chronology
In Flux
(2005)		 Blending Times
(2009)		 Spirit Fiction
(2012)

Five of the tracks on this album are group improvisations "conceived and directed by Ravi Coltrane[2]" that don't follow a standard time signature or preset measures lengths, reminiscent of free jazz popularized by Ornette Coleman.[3]

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.[4]

Blending Times reached 36 on Billboard's Jazz Albums Chart,[5] his second time making the chart.

Track listing

All compositions by Ravi Coltrane, except where noted

  1. "Shine" (Luis Perdomo) – 5:49
  2. "First Circuit" – 3:45
  3. "A Still Life" – 6:17
  4. "Epistrophy" (Kenny Clarke, Thelonious Monk) – 7:48
  5. "Amalgams" – 4:18
  6. "Narcined" – 4:49
  7. "One Wheeler Will" (Ralph Alessi) – 7:31
  8. "The Last Circuit" – 4:18
  9. "Before With After" – 2:49
  10. "For Turiya" (Charlie Haden) – 9:03

Personnel
Musicians
Technicians, producing, & others
  • Brian Dozoretz - engineer
  • Steve Genewick – mixing
  • Jimmy Katz - photography
  • Joe Marciano – engineer
  • Anna M. Sala - associate producer
  • Joshua Sherman - executive producer
  • Allan Tucker – mastering

Recording notes
  • Tracks 2,4,5,8: recorded at Bennett's Studio, Engelwood, NJ, August 14 & 15, 2006
  • Track 3: recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, NY, February 27, 2007
  • Tracks 1,6,7,9: recorded at Bennett's Studio, Engelwood, NJ, August 20–22, 2007
  • Track 10: recorded at Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, CA, September 17, 2007
  • Mixed at Capitol Studios, May, 2008
  • Mastered at TuckerSound, NYC, September, 2008

References
  1. "Blending Times - Ravi Coltrane - Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  2. "Jazz Reviews: Blending TimesRavi Coltrane - By Chris Kelsey — Jazz Articles". Jazztimes.com. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  3. Thom Jurek. "Ravi Coltrane - Biography - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  4. "Critics' Choice - New CD's - Ravi Coltrane - Review - NYTimes.com". Query.nytimes.com. 12 January 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  5. "Ravi Coltrane". Billboard.com. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
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