Lift Every Voice
by Andrew Hill
- Type: Album
- Released: May 1970
- Label: Blue Note
- Country: United States
- Length: 32:10
- Community rating: 3.51/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The visionary pianist and composer augmented his complex, avant-garde post-bop structures with a wordless, deeply spiritual vocal choir for this majestic recording. Navigating themes of profound solemnity and ecstatic uplift, the septet鈥攆eaturing Carlos Garnett and Woody Shaw鈥攄elivers incredibly rich, textured improvisations. It is widely considered a highly emotional, challenging high-water mark of late-era Blue Note experimentation.
Genres
Descriptors: vocal-group, acoustic, improvisation
Tracklist
Credits
- Andrew Hill - primary artist, piano, composed by
- Richard Davis - bass
- Freddie Waits - drums
- Carlos Garnett - tenor saxophone
- Woody Shaw - trumpet
- Antenett Goodman Ray - voice [singer]
- Benjamin Franklin Carter - voice [singer]
- Gail Nelson - voice [singer]