''A Time Remembered'' is an album by double bassist

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. His third and final release as a leader, it was recorded on January 14 and 15, 1995, at

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in Los Angeles, California, and was issued later that year on CD and vinyl by Jazz Planet, an imprint of Classic Records, as the label's inaugural release. On the album, Davis is joined by saxophonist

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, pianist

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, and drummer

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Reception

In a review for

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, Michael G. Nastos wrote: "Anytime bassist Art Davis records, it's an event... Davis... continues to be a force on his instrument... This is a truly outstanding recording and one of the very best CDs of 1995." Thomas Conrad of ''

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'' described the album as "session magically lit from within by inspiration, from first note to last," and called the group "a world-class cross-generational quartet." He commented: "Hancock... does something unexpected on every tune, comping and filling like pinpoints of light, paying out solos like cascades of poetry... But the revelation of ''A Time Remembered'' is Ravi Coltrane. He shapes endless ideas to lyrical elegance, even on the fly." '' Codas Elliot Bratton singled out Ravi Coltrane's solo on "

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," a song associated with his father, for praise, stating: "in choosing to play tenor sax instead of the soprano his father always used on ''Every Time'', Coltrane ''fils'' uncannily found a tone close to that of Coltrane ''pere''. The result is a solo of deep emotion and original construction that is Ravi's best of the session." Writing for ''Jelly Music Magazine'', Mark Craemer called the album "a clear example of how timeless an art form jazz truly is," and remarked: "Perhaps it is hecombination of the young and seasoned professionals that makes this collection so fresh and yet familiar. The CD is a well-balanced mix of up tempo, foot-tapping cuts... along with smooth, well-conceived ballads."

Track listing

# "Evidence" (

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) – 7:17 # "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing" (

Billy Strayhorn William Thomas Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades. His compositions include "Take the ...

) – 7:59 # "Driftin'" (Herbie Hancock) – 7:18 # "Everybody's Doing It" (

Irving Berlin Irving Berlin (born Israel Isidore Beilin; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was a Russian-born American composer and songwriter. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Berlin received numerous honors including an Acade ...

, Art Davis) – 6:57 # "

" (

Cole Porter Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became Standard (music), standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway the ...

) – 8:45 # "Art's Boogie" (Art Davis) – 6:44 # "Olé" (

John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the Jazz#Post-war jazz, history of jazz and 20th-century musi ...

) – 9:08 # "A Time Remembered: Sorrow/Uplift/Joy" (Art Davis) – 14:41

Personnel

– double bass *

– tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone *

– piano *

– drums

References

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