But Not Farewell is an album by American jazz pianist Andrew Hill

Andrew Hill

Andrew Hill was an American jazz pianist and composer.Hill is recognized as one of the most important innovators of jazz piano in the 1960s...

 recorded in 1990 and released on the Blue Note

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

 label in 1991. The album features seven of Hill's original compositions with four performed by his quintet

Quintet

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, one duet with Greg Osby

Greg Osby

Greg Osby is an American jazz saxophonist who plays mainly in the free jazz, free funk and M-Base idioms.-Biography:Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Osby studied at Howard University, where he majored in Jazz Studies, and then at the Berklee College of Music, with Andy McGhee...

, and two solo piano pieces.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow

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 awarded the album 4 stars and stated "This is a recommended set of stimulating post-bop jazz. Andrew Hill's highly distinctive piano playing and unusual compositions hint at the past while following their own rules".

Track listing

All compositions by Andrew Hill

1. "Westbury" - 7:19
2. "But Not Farewell" - 7:09
3. "Nicodemus" - 8:23
4. "Georgia Ham" - 17:18
5. "Friends" - 5:41
6. "Sunnyside" - 3:41
7. "Gone" - 13:30
   • Recorded at Clinton Recording Studio, New York City on July 12 (tracks 1-4), July 13 (track 5) and September 16 (tracks 6 & 7), 1990

Personnel

• Andrew Hill
  Andrew Hill
  Andrew Hill was an American jazz pianist and composer.Hill is recognized as one of the most important innovators of jazz piano in the 1960s...
  
   - piano
  Piano
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• Greg Osby
  Greg Osby
  Greg Osby is an American jazz saxophonist who plays mainly in the free jazz, free funk and M-Base idioms.-Biography:Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Osby studied at Howard University, where he majored in Jazz Studies, and then at the Berklee College of Music, with Andy McGhee...
  
   - soprano saxophone
  Soprano saxophone
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   (tracks 1-3), alto saxophone
  Alto saxophone
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   (tracks 4 & 5)
• Robin Eubanks
  Robin Eubanks
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   - trombone
  Trombone
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   (tracks 1-4)
• Lonnie Plaxico
  Lonnie Plaxico
  Lonnie Plaxico is an African American jazz bassist.Plaxico was born in Chicago, Illinois into a musical family, and started playing the bass at the age of twelve, turning professional at fourteen...
  
   - bass
  Double bass
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   (tracks 1-4)
• Cecil Brooks III
  Cecil Brooks III
  Cecil Brooks III is an American jazz drummer who has worked with, among others, Marvin Peterson, Andrew Hill, Arthur Blythe, Russell Gunn, Etta Jones and Jimmy Ponder....
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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  (tracks 1-4)