Air Mail (album)

Released1981

Recorded28 December 1980

Length35:41

Air Mail is an album by the improvisational collective Air featuring Henry Threadgill, Steve McCall, and Fred Hopkins, recorded for the Italian Black Saint label.^[1] The album consists of three compositions dedicated to the photographer Bobbie Kingsley, Ronnie Boykins, and Cecil Taylor & Jimmy Lyons.^[2]^[3]

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[6]

v t e Air
Henry Threadgill Fred Hopkins Steve McCall Andrew Cyrille Pheeroan akLaff
Studio albums	Air Song (1975) Air Raid (1976) Air Time (1977) Open Air Suit (1978) Air Lore (1979) Air Mail (1980) 80° Below '82 (1982) Air Show No. 1 (1986)
Live albums	Live Air (1976 & 1977) Montreux Suisse (1978) Live at Montreal International Jazz Festival (1983)
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.

v t e Henry Threadgill
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
Air	Air Song (1975) Air Raid (1976) Live Air (1976–77) Air Time (1977) Open Air Suit (1978) Montreux Suisse (1978) Air Lore (1979) Air Mail (1980) 80° Below '82 (1982) Live at Montreal International Jazz Festival (1983) Air Show No. 1 (1986)
X-75	X-75 Volume 1 (1979)
Henry Threadgill Sextet	When Was That? (1981) Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket (1983) Subject to Change (1984) You Know the Number (1986) Easily Slip Into Another World (1987) Rag, Bush and All (1988)
Very Very Circus	Spirit of Nuff...Nuff (1990) Live at Koncepts (1991) Too Much Sugar for a Dime (1993) Song Out of My Trees (1993) Carry the Day (1995) Makin' a Move (1995)
Make a Move	Where's Your Cup? (1996) Everybodys Mouth's a Book (2001)
Zooid	Up Popped the Two Lips (2001) This Brings Us to Volume 1 (2008) This Brings Us to Volume 2 (2008) Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp (2011) In for a Penny, In for a Pound (2014)
Ensemble Double Up	Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (2015)

Track listing