Andrew Hill  

 

LP Information:

Album Title: Smoke Stack

Year of This Release: 1966

Label – BLP 4160

Mono/US

 

Condition

Vinyl Condition:   Near Mint

Cover Condition:  Near Mint

 

 

LP Condition Notes: LP plays with no interference.  Beautiful Sound!!  A Very High Quality Recording. 

"VAN GELDER" is stamped in the run out groove of both sides.

Label is blue and white, with "Blue Note Records Inc • New York USA".

Back cover reads "43 West 61st St., New York 23".

 

Jacket Condition notes: The jacket is still in the original shrink wrap.  Jacket is beautiful.

 

Album Review: Smoke Stack, the second of six Blue Note sessions recorded between November 1963 and February 1965, was the pianist's fourth release by the label. While Hill's other sessions from the time were equally challenging from a compositional perspective, Smoke Stack was the most inherently difficult to fathom. It eschewed the more traditional instrumentation of Black Fire (1963), Judgement! (1964) and Point of Departure (1965) in favor of a piano/two-bass/drums lineup that was likely too unorthodox, even for a label that wasn't particularly averse to the unconventional.

 

Album Pressing Information:

 

Original Pressing Year: 1963

Genre: Jazz/Post-Bop

Blue Note Records

 

 

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