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Music CD - Andrew Hill: Point of Departure
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Music CD: Point of Departure
Artist: Andrew Hill
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Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
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Tracks:
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1. Refuge
2. New Monastery
3. Spectrum
4. Flight
5. Dedication
6. New Monastery (Alternate Take)
7. Flight 19 (Alternate Take)
8. Dedication (Alternate Take)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724349900721
Format: Original recording reissued
Label: Blue Note Records
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Blue Note Records
Release Date: 1999-05-18
Studio: Blue Note Records
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Best
Comment: Absolutely a must have. I enjoyed this album even more than "Dancing with Death" and I thought that was his best album.
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Summary: Something different, vaguely satisfying
Comment: As soon as I saw Eric Dolphy's name on the front cover, I started shaking. While Dolphy's Out to Lunch is considered a huge classic of jazz, I found its lack of cohesion irritating and the "beat-you-over-the-head-with-dissonance" downright tiring. I don't see what everyone was all excited about. But I digress. Point of Departure, for the most part, is okay. Sometimes I hear too much dissonance a la Dolphy, but other times, it settles down and becomes interesting enough to be somehow satisfying. Overall, the good outweighs the bad. Sometimes Hill's piano is so laid back and unobtrusive, you aren't even really sure if he's playing or not. I like the fact that when I listen close, I hear some clever, "progressive" chords that sort of "push up" on the other group members' playing, and I found that very interesting. Also, Hill doesn't really amaze with any Peterson or Tatum like licks, so it is a style of playing that is approachable for a jazz beginner like me. Also, I've found this to be easy to listen to over and over, even in succession, and it gets deeper each time I listen. This is good enough that I may even try to listen to Doplhy some more to see if I'm coming around to this style of jazz. Overall, a pretty good album, and definitely worthy of consideration for addition to any jazz fan's collection.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Music For the Ages
Comment: I bought this recording the first week it was released in 1964. I found it fascinating, mysterious and compelling the first time I heard it. My appreciation over the years of its deep, complex beauty has only grown.
This music is timeless and a supreme example of how structure and freedom
can be blended to perfection. The players are all Olympian and, appropriately, play like gods. This is perhaps my favorite Dolphy on record - and that's saying a lot. A word about Kenny Dorham: he's the perfect trumpet player for this music. I wish he would have played more in
this avant garde approach. I find him so much more satisfying with his tart tone and mysterious melancholy then if it had been Freddy Hubbard on the date. He improvises deep and from the soul and you can hear him searching. I find Hubbard's outside playing to sound at times like he's playing exercises from The Arban's book. Kenny and Joe were dynamite together, and when combined with Dolphy one has an unbeatable, complementary and contrasting front line. All three are tremendous individuals on their instruments. The compositions are rooted in jazz history but totally original and forward looking, like Hill himself. With
Tony Williams and Richard Davis dancing and floating in a constant crosscurrent of rhythmn, you have a magic chemistry... music for the ages.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Classic
Comment: "Point of Departure" combines a strong set of players with some great songs. The songs have knotty rhythms - luckily Tony Williams is playing drums. The horn line of Kenny Dorham, Eric Dolphy and Joe Henderson is also very strong. Dolphy is always interesting and Henderson can do no wrong. The CD starts with "Refuge", which is pretty good, then "New Monastery" is a very strong song. "Spectrum" sounds like Hill tried to put too things into one song. "Flight" is good, and "Dedication" is another strong song - Hill found a new way to do a great ballad.
If the free-est of free jazz is a '10' and a good Jazz Messangers CD is a '1', I'd put this at 4 on the bop-free scale. This is highly recommended, check out Nels Cline's "New Monastery" for another take on two of these songs.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A classic
Comment: In the 60s Blue Note diversified from being primarily a hard bop label to issuing adventurous recordings by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Grachan Moncur and others. This album -- Andrew Hill's fourth for the label -- is one of the peaks of that diversification, and one of my favorite jazz albums from the 60s.
Once I read a review where the author called this recording an avant-garde "Blues and the Abstract Truth", and the comparison is apt. Like that other album, Point of Departure unleashes an ensemble of brilliant improvisers on interesting, distinctive compositional material. Each tune inhabits its own musical universe, generating the album's significant sonic variety. As far as the ensemble, Eric Dolphy and Tony Williams pull the album in the avant-garde direction, Kenny Dorham provides some conservative ballast, and Joe Henderson sits somewhere in the middle. Richard Davis was Hill's bassist of choice, appearing on most of his early Blue Note albums. Hill himself offers some superb piano playing.
"Refuge" is the album's longest track. The solos are a pretty remarkable bunch -- it's tough to pick a favorite between those of Hill, Dolphy, Davis and Henderson. Each one offers a different interpretation of the tune. "New Monastery", as you might have guessed, is a tribute to Monk and has that typically Monkish lope. "Spectrum" is a suite that heavily features Dolphy on all three of his instruments: it opens with a section similar to "New Monastery", moves onto a Latin section in 5/4, and includes a ballad section with duetting flutes and a nice Dorham solo. "Flight 19", the shortest tune, plays solos by Hill and Davis off against collective improvisation by the ensemble. Finally, "Dedication" is the closing ballad; the mournful theme leads to inspired meditations by Dolphy, Hill (possibly his best of the session) and Henderson.
If you like this, be sure to explore other Blue Note albums like Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch, Bobby Hutcherson's Dialogue and others. In addition, check out other Andrew Hill albums like Black Fire, Judgment and Passing Ships. I haven't been disappointed with any of his Blue Note releases, but in my opinion this one is the best.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Alfred Lion considered Andrew Hill his last major discovery and rightly so. Hill's rich, rhythmic piano and utterly unique compositions stand alone. Point Of Departure is Hill's masterpiece with rich three-horn arrangements for Kenny Dorham, Eric Dolphy and Joe Henderson. Richard Davis and Tony Williams complete this high level ensemble. Three alternate takes have been added to the original LP.
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