Dance with Death [EXTRA TRACKS] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Andrew Hill

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 5, 2004)
• Original Release Date: October 11, 1968
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: Blue Note Records
• ASIN: B0002Y4TRO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #118,773 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
With Hill's "Passuing Ships" becoming the surprise success of the jazz world in 2003, this 1968 quintet session of inventive post hard bop with Joe Farrell, Charles Tolliver, Victor Sproles and Billy Higgins, first issued in 1981, is sure to experience a resurgence. An alternate take of the title tune is added to this first CD issue, mastered in 24 bit from the original analog tapes.

* previously unissued bonus track

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Andrew Hill's Dark Classic, November 26, 2005

By	hj (London) - See all my reviews

The series of reissues from Andrew Hill's 1960s Blue Note catalogue never ceases to amaze. Hill was so prolific in 68 that several albums couldn't find a place in Blue Note's release schedule at the time. "Dance with Death" was released much later but it now stands as one of Hill's very best: a seamless mix of modal, soul jazz and avant garde as good as anything Miles was coming up with at the time. Here you get six tracks plus a bonus alternate version of the brilliant title cut. The line up is: Hill-piano, the great Billy Higgins-drums, Victor Sproles-bass and the superb double lead of Charles Tolliver-trumpet and Joe Farrell-sax. The melodic lines are clean and logical - they seem complex at first but soon lodge in the mind. The arrangements and soloing are all superb. As the title suggests, this album outdoes Miles in the prince of darkness stakes - there's even a track called "Black Sabbath"!

22 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Album's a Killer, October 14, 2004

By	O. E. Williamson (Los Angeles, Calif.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

this is nearly as good as last year's 'passing ships' and makes a perfect companion piece (recorded in 1968 vis-a-vis 1969 for 'passing ships'). it features the consistently superb front line of chuck tolliver and joe farrell and the ever-snappy billy higgins on skins. andrew hill simply sounds like no one else. he is one of the unheralded masters of the last 40 years. this cd marks hill's place in the pantheon of all-time post-bop greats.

not to be missed.

p.s. this album also features a track called 'black sabbath'! :)

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars perfect out-bop, October 12, 2006

By	C. C. Peterson "ecological physiologist" (Hempstead NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Listened to this one again in the car this morning...YEAH! For me, Hill is the perfect blend of Herbie Hancock and Cecil Taylor; his playing and his compositions are just so freakin hip. Charles Tolliver sounds great with a bell-clear but sightly tart tone and a Lee Morgan/Freddie Hubbard/Woody Shaw vibe that hits hard every time...now I'll have to dig out some of those vinyl LPs with Stanley Cowell. Joe Farrell, Billy Higgins...this record is excellent. I'm looking forward to spinning Hill's new one (Timelines, also with Tolliver) on the way home to compare.