Dance with Death 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...

 featuring performances recorded in 1968 but not 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 until 1980. The album features Hill's quintet

Quintet

A quintet is a group containing five members.It is commonly associated with musical groups, such as a string quintet, or a group of five singers, but can be applied to any situation where five similar or related objects are considered a single unit....

 performing six original compositions with one alternate take added to the 2004 CD reissue.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars calling it "a phenomenal record, one that wears its adventure and authority well".

Track listing

All compositions by Andrew Hill.

1. "Yellow Violet" - 5:32
2. "Partitions" - 5:52
3. "Fish 'n Rice" - 7:31
4. "Dance With Death" - 6:40
5. "Love Nocturne" - 6:44
6. "Black Sabbath" - 6:24
7. "Dance With Death" [Alternate Take] - 7:14 Bonus track on CD reissue

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
• Charles Tolliver
  Charles Tolliver
  Charles Tolliver is an American jazz trumpeter and composer. Tolliver was born in Jacksonville, Florida, where, as a child, he received his first trumpet as a gift from his grandmother. He attended Howard University in the early 1960s as a pharmacy student, when he decided to pursue music as a...
  
   - trumpet
• Joe Farrell
  Joe Farrell
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   - soprano saxophone (track 1), tenor saxophone (tracks 2-7)
• Victor Sproles
  Victor Sproles
  Victor Sproles is a US jazz bassist.Sproles worked in the 1950s with Red Rodney and Ira Sullivan and appears on the Sun Ra recordings Super-Sonic Jazz, Sound of Joy and Deep Purple....
  
   - bass
  Double bass
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• Billy Higgins
  Billy Higgins
  Billy Higgins was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.Higgins was born in Los Angeles, California. Higgins played on Ornette Coleman's first records, beginning in 1958...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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