There Comes a Time (album)

There Comes a Time
Studio album by Gil Evans and His Orchestra
Released	1976
Recorded	March – June 1975
Genre	Jazz
Length	64:34 Reissue with bonus tracks
Label	RCA APL1-1057
Producer	Gil Evans & Anita Evans
Gil Evans chronology
Montreux Jazz Festival '74 (1975) There Comes a Time (1976) Gil Evans Live at the Royal Festival Hall London 1978 (1979)

There Comes a Time is an album by the jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1975 and performed by Evans with an orchestra featuring David Sanborn, Howard Johnson, Billy Harper and Ryo Kawasaki.[1] The album was re-released with an altered tracklist on CD in 1988.[2]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz	[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[6]

In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote: "overall the music... is quite rewarding, it's a creative big band fusion that expertly mixes together acoustic and electric instruments. This was one of Gil Evans' last truly great sets."[3]

Critic Richard Williams, writing for The Guardian, called the album an "immortal recording," one "often based on no more than a scrap of material coaxed into shimmering, multifaceted life."[7]

Track listing

All compositions by Gil Evans except as indicated

1. "King Porter Stomp" (Jelly Roll Morton) – 3:48
2. "There Comes a Time" (Tony Williams) – 16:10 Re-edited 14:23 version included on CD reissue
3. "Makes Her Move" – 1:42
4. "Little Wing – 5:33 Omitted from CD reissue
5. "The Meaning of the Blues" (Bobby Troup, Lee Worth) – 5:51 Unedited 20:01 version included on CD reissue
6. "Aftermath the Fourth Movement Children of the Fire" (Hannibal Marvin Peterson) – 5:45 Omitted from CD reissue
7. "Joy Spring" (Clifford Brown) – 2:19 Bonus track on CD reissue
8. "So Long" – 16:37 Bonus track on CD reissue
9. "Buzzard Variation" – 2:35 Bonus track on CD reissue
10. "Anita's Dance" – 2:55

• Recorded in RCA's Studio B in New York City on March 6 (tracks 2 & 7–9), April 11 (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 10) and April 14 (tracks 4 & 6) with additional recording on April 25, June 10 and 12, 1975

Personnel

• Gil Evans – piano, electric piano, arranger, conductor
• Hannibal Marvin Peterson – trumpet, koto, vocals
• Ernie Royal, Lew Soloff – trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet
• John Clark, Peter Gordon – French horn
• Tom Malone – trombone, bass trombone, tuba, synthesizer
• Joe Daley, Bob Stewart – tuba
• Howard Johnson – tuba, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, trombone
• David Sanborn – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
• George Adams, Billy Harper – tenor saxophone, flute
• David Horowitz – electric piano, synthesizer, electronic organ
• Pete Levin – synthesizer
• Joe Gallivan – synthesizer, guitar, steel guitar, percussion, congas
• Ryo Kawasaki – guitar, pedals
• Herb Bashler, Paul Metzke – electric bass
• Bruce Ditmas, Tony Williams – drums
• Sue Evans – congas, timpani, percussion, celeste, cowbell
• Warren Smith – mallet percussion, bongos

References

1. Gil Evans discography accessed June 12, 2014.
2. Discogs album entry, accessed June 12, 2014
3. Yanow, Scott. "Gil Evans: There Comes a Time". AllMusic. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 74. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
5. Larkin, Colin (2004). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 287.
6. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2000). The Penguin guide to jazz on CD. Penguin Books. p. 489.
7. Williams, Richard (November 7, 2012). "Purple hazer: the many lives of Gil Evans". The Guardian. Retrieved September 20, 2022.