Black Fire

by Andrew Hill

Black Fire cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: June 1964
  • Label: Blue Note
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:43
  • Community rating: 4.29/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Richard Davis, Roy Haynes, Joe Henderson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The stunning debut from one of the era's most singular and sophisticated composers. Andrew Hill's music occupies a unique space between advanced hard bop and the avant-garde, characterized by its rhythmic complexity, harmonic ambiguity, and unpredictable structures. Featuring brilliant work from saxophonist Joe Henderson, the album announced the arrival of a vital, unclassifiable new voice in jazz piano and composition.

Genres

Descriptors: piano, avant-garde, complex, dissonant, classic

Tracklist

  1. Pumpkin (5:23)
  2. Subterfuge (8:02)
  3. Black Fire (6:56)
  4. Cantarnos (5:41)
  5. Tired Trade (5:51)
  6. McNeil Island (2:56)
  7. Land of Nod (5:48)

Credits

  • Andrew Hill - primary artist, piano, written-by
  • Richard Davis - bass
  • Reid Miles - design [cover]
  • Roy Haynes - drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder - lacquer cut by, recorded by
  • Alfred Bennett Spellman, Jr. - liner notes
  • Francis Wolff - photography by [cover photo]
  • Alfred Lion - producer
  • Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone

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