There Comes a Time (album)

There Comes a Time is an album by the jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1975 and performed by Evans with an orchestra featuring David Sanborn, Howard Johnson, Billy Harper and Ryo Kawasaki.[1] The album was re-released with an altered tracklist on CD in 1988.[2]

There Comes a Time
Studio album by
Gil Evans and His Orchestra
Released1976
RecordedMarch – June 1975
GenreJazz
Length64:34 Reissue with bonus tracks
LabelRCA APL1-1057
ProducerGil Evans & Anita Evans
Gil Evans chronology
Montreux Jazz Festival '74
(1975)
There Comes a Time
(1976)
Gil Evans Live at the Royal Festival Hall London 1978
(1979)

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide     [4]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz     [5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz    [6]

In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote: "overall the music... is quite rewarding, it's a creative big band fusion that expertly mixes together acoustic and electric instruments. This was one of Gil Evans' last truly great sets."[3]

Critic Richard Williams, writing for The Guardian, called the album an "immortal recording," one "often based on no more than a scrap of material coaxed into shimmering, multifaceted life."[7]

Track listing

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All compositions by Gil Evans except as indicated

  1. "King Porter Stomp" (Jelly Roll Morton) – 3:48
  2. "There Comes a Time" (Tony Williams) – 16:10 Re-edited 14:23 version included on CD reissue
  3. "Makes Her Move" – 1:42
  4. "Little Wing – 5:33 Omitted from CD reissue
  5. "The Meaning of the Blues" (Bobby Troup, Lee Worth) – 5:51 Unedited 20:01 version included on CD reissue
  6. "Aftermath the Fourth Movement Children of the Fire" (Hannibal Marvin Peterson) – 5:45 Omitted from CD reissue
  7. "Joy Spring" (Clifford Brown) – 2:19 Bonus track on CD reissue
  8. "So Long" – 16:37 Bonus track on CD reissue
  9. "Buzzard Variation" – 2:35 Bonus track on CD reissue
  10. "Anita's Dance" – 2:55
  • Recorded in RCA's Studio B in New York City on March 6 (tracks 2 & 7–9), April 11 (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 10) and April 14 (tracks 4 & 6) with additional recording on April 25, June 10 and 12, 1975

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Gil Evans discography accessed June 12, 2014.
  2. ^ Discogs album entry, accessed June 12, 2014
  3. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "Gil Evans: There Comes a Time". AllMusic. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
  4. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 74. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. ^ Larkin, Colin (2004). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 287.
  6. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2000). The Penguin guide to jazz on CD. Penguin Books. p. 489.
  7. ^ Williams, Richard (November 7, 2012). "Purple hazer: the many lives of Gil Evans". The Guardian. Retrieved September 20, 2022.