Enchance

by Billy Hart

Enchance cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: Horizon
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 45:59
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Drummer Billy Hart assembled an all-star cast for 'Enchance', an album characterized by intense polyphonic exploration and dense rhythmic interplay. Grounded in avant-garde and spiritual jazz, the release features fearless improvisation and complex, dissonant structures. It is widely praised for its energetic and uncompromising approach to modern free jazz.

Genres

Descriptors: polyphonic, dissonant, improvisation, rhythmic, complex, instrumental, improvised, ensemble, experimental, percussive, groove-laden

Tracklist

  1. Diff Customs
  2. Shadow Dance
  3. Layla-Joy (5:58)
  4. Corner Culture
  5. Rahsaan Is Beautiful
  6. Pharoah (4:58)
  7. Hymn For The Old Year

Credits

  • Billy Hart - primary artist, drums, written-by
  • Oliver Lake - alto saxophone, flute, written-by
  • Buster Williams - bass
  • Dave Holland - bass, written-by
  • John Snyder - creative director
  • Eddie Henderson - flugelhorn, trumpet
  • Hannibal Marvin Peterson - koto, trumpet, written-by
  • Michael Carvin - percussion
  • Dewey Redman - Arranged By, Written-By
  • Don Pullen - Written-By

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