Faces of Hope is a solo album

Solo album

A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...

 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 1980 and released on the Italian Soul Note

Black Saint/Soul Note

Black Saint and Soul Note are two affiliated Italian jazz independent record labels. Since their conception in the 1970s, they have released albums from a variety of influential jazz musicians, particularly in the genre of free jazz.-History:...

 label. The album features three of Hill's original compositions and one interpretation of a Lee Morgan

Lee Morgan

Edward Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter.-Biography:...

 tune.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Sometimes loping, sometimes soaring solo piano from Andrew Hill, one of several impressive releases he made in the '80s. This time, however, it's neither the arrangements nor the songs that score, but Hill's emphatic execution of them".

Track listing

All compositions by Andrew Hill except as indicated

1. "Rob It Mohe" - 14:55
2. "Ceora" (Lee Morgan
   Lee Morgan
   Edward Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter.-Biography:...
   
   ) - 5:22
3. "Bayside 1" - 15:30
4. "Bayside 2" - 4:31

*Recorded at Barigozzi Studios, Milano, Italy on June 13 & 14, 1980