''Air Time'' is an album by the improvisational collective Air, released in 1978. Henry Threadgill,

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, and Fred Hopkins perform three of Threadgill's compositions and one each by Hopkins and McCall.Backstrom, L. & Lopez, R
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Reception

'' The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection, stating: "Listening in detail to its five tracks ...helps illuminate much of the group's language, its vivid exploitation of splintered tempi, deliberately awkward and raucous phrasing, devices from other musical traditions ...and most particularly the use of percussion as another voiced and pitched instrument". In his

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comments: "The trio Air aimed to have close interplay between three musical equals. This Nessa release (their first recording for an American label) has plenty of explorative solos".Yanow, S.

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accessed February 10, 2010. '' The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' said: "''Air Time'' is probably the best single album indication of the band's range".

Track listing

''All compositions by Henry Threadgill except as indicated'' # "I'll Be Right Here Waiting..." (Steve McCall) – 2:29 # "No. 2" – 11:46 # "G.v.E." (Fred Hopkins) – 6:59 # "Subtraction" – 13:20 # "Keep Right on Playing Thru the Mirror Over the Water" – 9:04 * Recorded at Streeterville Studios, Chicago, IL on November 17 (tracks 2 & 3) & November 18 (tracks 1, 4 & 5), 1977

Personnel

* Henry Threadgill –

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References

{{Authority control 1978 albums Air (free jazz trio) albums Nessa Records albums