Time Lines
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{{Infobox album
| name = Time Lines
| type = Album
| artist = Andrew Hill
| cover = Time Lines.jpg
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| released = 2006
| recorded = June 23–July 18, 2005
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| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 65:25
| label = Blue Note
| producer = Michael Cuscuna
| chronology = Andrew Hill
| prev_title = The Day the World Stood Still
| prev_year = 2004
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Time Lines is an album by American jazz pianist Andrew Hill recorded in 2005 and released on the Blue Note label in 2006.[http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Hill/hill-disc.htm Andrew Hill discography] accessed October 1, 2010 The album features Hill's final studio recordings.
Background
The albums contains several tributes. The track "Malachi" is dedicated to fellow Chicagoan musician Malachi Favors, who died in January 2004. Favors played bass on Hill's 1960 debut recording So in Love. The track "For Emilio", commissioned by Chamber Music America, was written in honor of painter Emilio Cruz, who died in December 2004, having also lived in Chicago.{{cite journal |title=Andrew Hill |journal=Signal to Noise |date=2007 |volume=44-47 |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A28JAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|3.5|5}}
|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=703}}
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The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 3½ stars and stated "Hill is still every bit the creative and technically gifted musician he was back in the day; perhaps more so... Hill's gift lies in his ability to employ the tradition exactly as he means to, yet he also seems to look for the mystery inherent in the improvisation and the dialogue of musicians with one another... Time Lines is yet another landmark in one of the most astonishing careers in the history of jazz".Jurek, T. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r820005|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed October 1, 2010
Track listing
All compositions by Andrew Hill.
- "Malachi" - 7:03
- "Time Lines" - 9:02
- "Ry Round 1" - 9:00
- "For Emilio" - 9:40
- "Whitsuntide" - 8:59
- "Smooth" - 8:14
- "Ry Round 2" - 7:55
- "Malachi" [Solo Piano Version] - 5:32
:*Recorded at Bennett Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on June 23 (tracks 3 & 4), June 30 (tracks 1, 2 & 5–7) and July 18 (track 8), 2005.
Personnel
- Andrew Hill - piano
- Greg Tardy - clarinet (tracks 1 & 6), bass clarinet (tracks 3, 4 & 7), tenor saxophone (tracks 2 & 5)
- Charles Tolliver - trumpet (except 8)
- John Hebert - bass (except 8)
- Eric McPherson - drums (except 8)