Andrew Hill - Dance with Death
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Piano – Andrew Hill [click here to see more vinyl featuring Andrew Hill]
Trumpet – Charles Tolliver [click here to see more vinyl featuring Charles Tolliver]
Bass – Victor Sproles
Drums – Billy Higgins
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Joe Farrell
Written by Andrew Hill
1 LP, Gatefold Tip-On Jacket printed by Stoughton Printing Co.
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : RTI
Label : Blue Note Tone Poet
Original Label : Blue Note
Recorded on October 11, 1968, at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Engineered by Rudy Van Gelder
Original session produced by Francis Wolff
Reissue supervised by Joe Harley
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
Photography y Francis Wolff
Lacquer cut by Joe Harley and Kevin Gray
Sleeve Notes by Nat Hentoff
Originally released in 1964
Reissued in March 2023
Tracks :
Side A:
- Yellow Violet
- Partitions
- Fish 'n Rice
Side B:
- Dance with Death
- Love Nocturne
- Black Sabbath
Reviews :
“Andrew Hill's Dance of Death, recorded in 1968 with a stellar band, was not issued until 1980. In the late 1960s, Blue Note was no longer the most adventurous of jazz labels. While certain titles managed to scrape through -- Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music did but only because Francis Wollf personally financed it -- many didn't. The label was firmly in the soul-jazz groove by then, and Hill's music, always on the edge, was deemed too outside for the label's roster. Musically, this is Hill at his most visionary. From hard- and post bop frames come modal and tonal inquiries of staggering complexity. Accompanied by trumpeter Charles Tolliver, saxophonist Joe Farrell, drummer Billy Higgins and bassist Victor Sproles, Hill engages, seemingly, all of his muses at once. Check out the sinister modal blues that is "Fish 'N' Rice" with its loping Eastern-tinged blues and loping horn lines around Hill's knotty fills in the head and choruses. In "Partitions" the steaming head is so rigorously tangled it's only the counterpoint of Hill's piano that makes an exit possible, with deep blues underpinnings and strident swinging soul. The title cut dances Afro-Cuban in the head, but Hill's piano is in a minor modal groove, with Higgins playing a textural, syncopated four-four as Sproles' punches on the two and four as the solos begin winding through the modes, bringing back the blues on tags. Dance of Death is a phenomenal record, one that wears its adventure and authority well.” AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek
Rating:
AllMusic 4.5 / 5 ; Discogs 4.86 / 5