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- Date Released: December 31, 1987
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Soul Note / CAM
Cerebral, but also warm, swinging and open-hearted
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We Say...
Andrew Hill's most acclaimed albums have him leading mid-sized groups — not surprisingly, since the pianist-composer has a gift for complex, oddly hummable melodies meant to be articulated and debated by a family of horns. That said, his small-group outings are well worth a listen or sixty, this '87 set particularly.
Hill's famously cerebral music can be overly dry and cool (then again, sometimes these qualities are part of its power). Not so Shades, which is certainly cerebral, but also warm, swinging and open-hearted — "Tripping" even stumbles into melodrama. Much of the warmth comes from tenorman Clifford Jordan who, like Hill, is a Chicagoan, with a Sears Tower-sized tone and adventurous blues feel to prove it. Jordan is given extra room, which he fills ably, on the somewhat gutty "Domani" and the romantic "La Verne," but he's great throughout. With former Thelonious Monk sideman Ben Riley drumming, Hill turns in three Monk-inspired, album-highlighting originals, finding just the right herky-jerky rhythms and pointy melodies without sinking to pastiche. "Ball Square," later reprised on Hill's welcome comeback, 2000's Dusk, must be one of the best Monk tunes not written by Monk, and on this version bassist Rufus Reid's inspired bowing brings the 6/8-time bridge to strange, ethereal-burlesque heights.
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| 01. |  |
Monk's Glimpse |
4:42 |
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| 02. | |
Tripping |
6:37 |
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| 03. | |
Chilly Mac |
5:33 |
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| 04. | |
Ball Square |
5:37 |
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| 05. | |
Domani |
7:36 |
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| 06. | |
La Verne |
13:44 |
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06 Total Tracks, 43:49 Total Length
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