Time Will Tell (Paul Bley album)

Time Will Tell
Studio album by Paul Bley / Evan Parker / Barre Phillips
Released	January 1995
Recorded	January 1994
Studio	Rainbow Studio Oslo, Norway
Genre	Avant-garde jazz, free jazz, free improvisation
Length	67:15
Label	ECM ECM 1537
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Paul Bley chronology
Synth Thesis (1993) Time Will Tell (1995) Chaos (1998)

Time Will Tell is an album by American jazz pianist Paul Bley recorded in January 1994 and released on ECM a year later. The trio features saxophonist Evan Parker and bassist Barre Phillips.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Penguin Guide to Jazz	[2]
AllMusic	[3]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection.^[2]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2½ stars stating "This CD contains a series of mostly thoughtful free improvisations featuring three of the giants of the idiom... Although the results overall are not classic, the music never fails to hold on to one's interest as the three musicians continually think and evolve together".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Paul Bley, Evan Parker & Barre Phillips except as indicated

1. "Poetic Justice" - 17:22
2. "Time Will Tell" - 4:25
3. "Above the Tree Line" - 4:49
4. "You Will, Oscar, You Will" (Bley, Phillips) - 4:57
5. "Sprung" - 5:22
6. "No Questions" - 5:30
7. "Vine Laces" (Parker, Phillips) - 4:04
8. "Clawback" (Bley, Parker) - 3:15
9. "Marsh Tides" - 5:43
10. "Instance" (Parker, Phillips) - 4:26
11. "Burlesque" - 7:15

Personnel

• Paul Bley – piano
• Evan Parker – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
• Barre Phillips – bass

References

1. ECM discography accessed October 21, 2011
2. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Paul Bley". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
3. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed October 21, 2011