Air Time

by Air

Air Time cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Nessa
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:38
  • Community rating: 3.92/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Chuck Nessa, Steve McCall, Fred Hopkins, Henry Threadgill, AIR

Album Notes & Community Reviews

As one of the most cohesive units to emerge from Chicago's AACM, this trio showcases a deeply empathetic and rhythmic approach to avant-garde improvisation. 'Air Time' highlights Henry Threadgill's diverse instrumental palette and the group's unique ability to blend complex conceptual structures with swinging, blues-inflected undertones.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. I'll Be Right Here Waiting... (3:16)
  2. No.2 (2:35)
  3. G.v.E. (1:12)
  4. Subtraction (2:51)
  5. Keep Right On Playing Thru The Mirror Over The Water (15:36)

Credits

  • AIR - primary artist
  • Henry Threadgill - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute, bass flute, performer [hubkaphone], written-by, percussion idiophone
  • Fred Hopkins - bass, written-by
  • Dave Crawford - lacquer cut by, lacquer cut
  • Steve McCall - percussion, written-by

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