Andrew Hill – Andrew!!! [Stereo] (Blue Note Tone Poet Series Edition)

(AAA) — Lacquers cut from the original analog master tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.

Andrew Hill — Andrew!!!

180-gram gatefold LP

Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the original master tape

Plated and pressed at RTI

The Blue Note Tone Poet Series was born out of Blue Note President Don Was' admiration for the exceptional audiophile Blue Note LP reissues presented by Music Matters. Was brought Joe Harley (from Music Matters), a.k.a. the "Tone Poet," on board to curate and supervise a series of reissues from the Blue Note family of labels.

Blue Note founder Alfred Lion considered Andrew Hill to be a pianist and composer who was every bit as strikingly original and important as Thelonious Monk and began recording Hill with a fervor in 1963. Hill, for his part, did not disappoint. The pianist burst out of the gate with a torrent of creativity that produced five remarkable albums in just eight months: Black Fire, Smoke Stack, Judgment!, Point of Departure, and Andrew!!!

Perhaps overshadowed by its predecessor Point of Departure, which is widely regarded as Hill's masterpiece, 1964's Andrew!!! has remained an unfairly underrated entry in Hill's magnificent Blue Note discography. With a quintet featuring the Sun Ra Arkestra saxophonist John Gilmore along with vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Joe Chambers, Hill presented six of his mercurial inside-out compositions including "The Groits" and "Black Monday."

(Above description from AcousticSounds.com)