| Blending Times | ||||
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| Released | January 2009 | |||
| Recorded | August 14, 2006 – September 17, 2007 | |||
| Genre | Jazz Post-bop[1] | |||
| Length | 56:27 | |||
| Label | Savoy Records | |||
| Producer | Ravi Coltrane | |||
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Blending Times is Ravi Coltrane's fifth album as a band leader, and second for Savoy Records.
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.
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- ^ Thom Jurek. "Ravi Coltrane - Biography - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
- ^ "Critics' Choice - New CD's - Ravi Coltrane - Review - NYTimes.com". Query.nytimes.com. 12 January 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
- ^ "Ravi Coltrane". Billboard.com. Retrieved 18 November 2014.