Andrew HillFeaturing: Eric Dolphy, Joe Henderson, Kenny Dorham, John Gilmore, John Gilmore, Cecil McBee, Joe Chambers
Point Of Departure to Compulsion!!!!! revisited
Point of Departure was an inflection point in Hill’s output for Blue Note, his penchant for formal complexity and compacted materials – which he revisited beginning in 1969 with a nonet date, tracks with a string quartet-augmented ensemble, and an album with voices – giving way to what proved to be a short-lived foray into the minimally scored pieces that distinguished Compulsion!!!!!. The two recording sessions were separated by only eighteen months, but they were among the most convulsive in jazz history, accounting for the pronounced contrasts between the resulting albums. - Bill Shoemaker
Track 1,2,3,4,5 from Point of Departure
Eric Dolphy - alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone
Kenny Dorham - trumpet
Andrew Hill - piano
Richard Davis - double bass
Anthony Williams - drums
All compositions by Andrew Hill.
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs,
New Jersey on March 21, 1964.
Track 6,7,8,9 from Compulsion!!!!!
John Gilmore - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet, flugelhorn
Andrew Hill - piano
Cecil McBee - double Bass on 6,7,9
Richard Davis - double bass on 8
Renaud Simmons - comgas
Nadir Qamar - african drums & african thumb piano
Joe Chambers - drum
All compositions by Andrew Hill.
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs,
New Jersey on October 8, 1965.
CD-master by Michael Brändli, Hardstudios AG;
Cover photo by Jan Persson CTSimages; Liner notes
by Bill Shoemaker; graphic concept by fuhrer vienna;
Associate producer: Christian C. Dalucas;
Executive producer: Werner X. Uehlinger.
Honoring producer: Bernhard „Benne“ Vischer
2022, 1st Edition
