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Just a great record by top of the range musicians. At the tipping point between mainline modern jazz and the avant garde. It is edgy - almost straight ahead arrangements and solos moving to more free forms. All the players are great. Most poignant is Eric Dolphy who had not much longer to live. Love this cd. I find complete free jazz like late Coltrane difficult but this retains enough form for me to still cotton what is happening and it is exciting.
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Anyone who knows of Andrew Hill will appreciate that this one of his best albums and one of the great Bluenote works.
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Just great music
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Not a great album. Just nothing special
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Andrew Hill is not the best known of the modern jazz musicians. At the time he made this recording (1964) he was determined to find his own musical language, eschewing precious work with other bands, losing the remuneration and esteem others had by taking this uncompromising course. It's interesting to note that one number on the album, "Spectrum" has Monk written all over it, I think it's impossible for a creative artist to be unaffected by their peers. The robust playing of Joe Henderson, a good compromise between the free jazz of Coltrane and enormous tonal scope of Shepp, the sensitive picking of the best scalic fit by Kenny Dorham, and excellent improvisations of Dolphy, make this a must for modern jazz lovers. Listen to the way the players throw the riffs around, with contrapuntal dexterity, akin to skilled baseball players. And this stuff's not easy to play, hence the line up of such giants of the jazz scene. "Point of Departure" suggests to me, not the departure from tonality, Hill does not do that, his music is strongly tonal, but the departure from the annoying triad of thirds, which haunts most music, and keeps many in the land of musical aural darkness. There is a focus on the intervals of the second and fourth within the harmony, creating interesting tensional argument, and leaving space for more advanced improvisation.Read full review
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