Air Time

Air Time is an album by the improvisational collective Air, released in 1978. Henry Threadgill, Steve McCall, and Fred Hopkins perform three of Threadgill's compositions and one each by Hopkins and McCall.^[1]

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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".^[2]

In his AllMusic review, Scott Yanow 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".^[3] The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide said: "Air Time is probably the best single album indication of the band's range".^[4]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[4]

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 – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute, bass flute, hubkaphone
Fred Hopkins – bass
Steve McCall – drums, percussion

References

^ Backstrom, L. & Lopez, R. Henry Threadgill discography accessed February 10, 2010
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Air". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
^ ^a ^b Yanow, S. AllMusic Review accessed February 10, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 5. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

v t e Air
Henry Threadgill Fred Hopkins Steve McCall Andrew Cyrille Pheeroan akLaff
Studio albums	Air Song (1975) Air Raid (1976) Air Time (1977) Open Air Suit (1978) Air Lore (1979) Air Mail (1980) 80° Below '82 (1982) Air Show No. 1 (1986)
Live albums	Live Air (1976 & 1977) Montreux Suisse (1978) Live at Montreal International Jazz Festival (1983)
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.

v t e Henry Threadgill
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
Air	Air Song (1975) Air Raid (1976) Live Air (1976–77) Air Time (1977) Open Air Suit (1978) Montreux Suisse (1978) Air Lore (1979) Air Mail (1980) 80° Below '82 (1982) Live at Montreal International Jazz Festival (1983) Air Show No. 1 (1986)
X-75	X-75 Volume 1 (1979)
Henry Threadgill Sextet	When Was That? (1981) Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket (1983) Subject to Change (1984) You Know the Number (1986) Easily Slip Into Another World (1987) Rag, Bush and All (1988)
Very Very Circus	Spirit of Nuff...Nuff (1990) Live at Koncepts (1991) Too Much Sugar for a Dime (1993) Song Out of My Trees (1993) Carry the Day (1995) Makin' a Move (1995)
Make a Move	Where's Your Cup? (1996) Everybodys Mouth's a Book (2001)
Zooid	Up Popped the Two Lips (2001) This Brings Us to Volume 1 (2008) This Brings Us to Volume 2 (2008) Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp (2011) In for a Penny, In for a Pound (2014)
Ensemble Double Up	Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (2015)

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