• DIGIPACK EDITION

Point of Departure was an inflection point in Hill’s output for Blue Note, his penchant for formal complexity and compacted materials – which he revisited beginning in 1969 with a nonet date, tracks with a string quartet-augmented ensemble, and an album with voices – giving way to what proved to be a short-lived foray into the minimally scored pieces that distinguished Compulsion!!!!!. The two recording sessions were separated by only eighteen months, but they were among the most convulsive in jazz history, accounting for the pronounced contrasts between the resulting albums. - Bill Shoemaker

PERSONNEL, DATES & TRACKS:

• Point Of Departure
• Eric Dolphy - (alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet)
• Joe Henderson - (tenor saxophone)
• Kenny Dorham - (trumpet)
• Andrew Hill - (piano)
• Richard Davis - (double bass)
• Anthony Williams - (drums)

• Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood, New Jersey on March 21, 1964

• 01 Refuge
• 02 New Monastery
• 03 Spectrum
• 04 Flight 19
• 05 Dedication
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• Compulsion!!!!!
• John Gilmore - (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet)
• Freddie Hubbard - (trumpet, flugelhorn)
• Andrew Hill - (piano)
• Cecil McBee - (double bass on 6, 7 & 9)
• Richard Davis - (double bass on 8)
• Renaud Simmons - (congas)
• Nadi Qamar african drums & african thumb piano)
• Joe Chambers (drums)

• Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on October 8, 1965

• 06 Compulsion
• 07 Legacy
• 8 Premonition
• 09 Limbo