Blending Times

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{{Infobox album

| name = Blending Times

| type = Studio

| artist = Ravi Coltrane

| cover =Blending Times.jpg

| alt =

| released = January 2009

| recorded = August 14, 2006 – September 17, 2007

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz
Post-bop{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/blending-times-mw0000806539/credits|title=Blending Times - Ravi Coltrane - Credits - AllMusic|work=AllMusic|accessdate=18 November 2014}}

| length = 56:27

| label = Savoy Records

| producer = Ravi Coltrane

| prev_title = In Flux

| prev_year = 2005

| next_title = Spirit Fiction

| next_year = 2012

}}

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{{cite web|url=http://jazztimes.com/articles/21328-blending-times-ravi-coltrane|title=Jazz Reviews: Blending TimesRavi Coltrane - By Chris Kelsey — Jazz Articles|publisher=Jazztimes.com|accessdate=18 November 2014}}" that don't follow a standard time signature or preset measures lengths, reminiscent of free jazz popularized by Ornette Coleman.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ravi-coltrane-mn0000401568/biography|title=Ravi Coltrane - Biography - AllMusic|author=Thom Jurek|work=AllMusic|accessdate=18 November 2014}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E1DA1638F931A25752C0A96F9C8B63|title=Critics' Choice - New CD's - Ravi Coltrane - Review - NYTimes.com|date=12 January 2009|publisher=Query.nytimes.com|accessdate=18 November 2014}}

Blending Times reached 36 on Billboard's Jazz Albums Chart,{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/ravi-coltrane/chart-history/jls/|title=Ravi Coltrane|publisher=Billboard.com|accessdate=18 November 2014}} his second time making the chart.