Time Will Tell (Paul Bley album)

Time Will Tell is an album by pianist Paul Bley, bassist Barre Phillips, and saxophonist Evan Parker recorded in 1994 and released on the ECM label in 1995.[1]

Time Will Tell
Studio album by Paul Bley
Released	1995
Recorded	January 1994
Genre	Avant-garde jazz, free jazz, free improvisation
Length	67:15
Label	ECM
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Paul Bley chronology
Synth Thesis (1993) Time Will Tell (1995) Chaos (1994)

Reception

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]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Penguin Guide to Jazz	[2]
Allmusic	[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

• Recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in January 1994.

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