| As If It Were the Seasons | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Joseph Jarman |
| Cover: | As_If_It_Were_the_Seasons.gif |
| Released: | 1968 |
| Recorded: | July 17, 1968 (track 1) June 19, 1968 (track 2) |
| Studio: | Ter-Mar Studios, Chicago |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 44:45 |
| Label: | Delmark |
| Producer: | Robert G. Koester |
| Chronology: | Joseph Jarman |
| Prev Title: | Song For |
| Prev Year: | 1966 |
| Next Title: | Together Alone |
| Next Year: | 1971 |
As If It Were the Seasons is the second album by American jazz saxophonist Joseph Jarman, recorded in 1968 and released on the Delmark label.
After the death of Christopher Gaddy, who played piano on his debut album, Song For, Jarman played with the rhythm section of bassist Charles Clark and drummer Thurman Barker. For concerts he invited guests as Sherri Scott, who adds her voice to the trio for the first pieces in this record.[1] Jarman composed “Song for Christopher”, based on incomplete notations by the pianist, as a memorial to Gaddy. The piece was recorded by the group augmented by six musicians.[1] When Clark died on April 15, 1969, at twenty-four, he had taken part only in three recordings, Muhal Richard Abrams’s Levels and Degrees of Light, Jarman’s Song For and this album.[2]
Scott Yanow, in his review for AllMusic claims about the album "Certainly not for everyone's taste, the truly open-eared will find the innovative results quite intriguing."The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "the title-piece exemplifies Jarman's particular blending of lyricism, free space, drifting time and occasional bursts of intensity."[3]
All compositions by Joseph Jarman
Everybody - bells, gong, harps