It's Time (Max Roach album)

It's Time
Studio album by Max Roach
Released 1962
Recorded February 15, 26 & 27, 1962
Fine Recording Ballroom Studio A
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 43:51
Label Impulse!
A-16
Producer Bob Thiele
Max Roach chronology

Percussion Bitter Sweet
(1961)
It's Time
(1961)
Speak, Brother, Speak!
(1962)
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Down Beat [1]

It's Time is a 1962 album by jazz drummer Max Roach, released on Impulse! Records and features trumpeter Richard Williams, tenor-saxophonist Clifford Jordan, trombonist Julian Priester, pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Art Davis, and a vocal choir conducted by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Singer Abbey Lincoln appears on "Lonesome Lover".[2]

Tracklisting

All composed by Max Roach

  1. "It's Time" - 6:44
  2. "Another Valley" - 8:46
  3. "Sunday Afternoon" - 6:16
  4. "Living Room" - 7:31
  5. "The Profit" - 7:32
  6. "Lonesome Lover" - 7:02

Recorded on February 15 (tracks 1, 4), February 26 (tracks 2, 5), February 27 (tracks 3, 6), 1962.

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References

  1. Down Beat: October 25, 1962 vol. 29, no. 27
  2. Allmusic