| Air Time | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Air |
| Cover: | Air Time.jpg |
| Recorded: | November 17 & 18, 1977 |
| Studio: | Streeterville Studios, Chicago |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Label: | Nessa |
| Chronology: | Air |
| Prev Title: | Live Air |
| Prev Year: | 1977 |
| Next Title: | Open Air Suit |
| Next Year: | 1978 |
Air Time is an album by the improvisational collective Air, released in 1978. Henry Threadgill, Steve McCall, and Fred Hopkins perform three of Threadgill's compositions and one each by Hopkins and McCall.[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection, stating: "Listening in detail to its five tracks ...helps illuminate much of the group's language, its vivid exploitation of splintered tempi, deliberately awkward and raucous phrasing, devices from other musical traditions ...and most particularly the use of percussion as another voiced and pitched instrument".[2]
In his AllMusic review, Scott Yanow comments: "The trio Air aimed to have close interplay between three musical equals. This Nessa release (their first recording for an American label) has plenty of explorative solos".[3] The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide said: "Air Time is probably the best single album indication of the band's range".
All compositions by Henry Threadgill except as indicated