Compulsion (album)

Compulsion!!!!!
Studio album by Andrew Hill
Released	1966
Recorded	October 8, 1965 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre	Free jazz
Length	41:04
Label	Blue Note BST 84217
Producer	Alfred Lion
Andrew Hill chronology
Pax (1965) Compulsion!!!!! (1966) Change (1966)

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Compulsion!!!!! is the eighth jazz album by pianist Andrew Hill. It was originally released in 1966 under the Blue Note Label as BST 84217. It was remastered by Rudy Van Gelder in 2006.

Background and album concept

Hill's intention was to "...construct an album expressing the legacy of the Negro tradition.", and to use the piano more as a percussive instrument than a melodic one.^[2] The second number, "Legacy", was dedicated to the Afro-American legacy, and is followed by "Premonition", which Hill described as " indicating not alone a look ahead, but rather a sufficiently revealing look backward, so that you can really begin to know what may come."^[2] The album concludes with "Limbo", a 20-bar tune, a piece written to represent the state in which Hill considered the majority of Afro-Americans to be in at the time, not drawing on their heritage.^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Andrew Hill.

1. "Compulsion" - 14:15
2. "Legacy" - 5:50
3. "Premonition" - 10:32
4. "Limbo" - 10:17

Personnel

• Andrew Hill - piano
• Freddie Hubbard - trumpet, flugelhorn
• John Gilmore - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
• Cecil McBee - bass
• Joe Chambers - drums
• Renaud Simmons - conga, percussion
• Nadi Qamar - percussion, African drums, Thumb piano
• Richard Davis - bass (track 3)

References

Sources

• Compulsion page at Blue Note website