Hill, Andrew: Compulsion!!!!! (Blue Note Tone Poet) LP

One of the boldest statements in the Andrew Hill discography, 1965's Compulsion!!!!! was the pianist's expression of the avant-garde through the prism of jazz music's roots in African rhythms. Hill's percussive piano drives an intrepid ensemble through four evocative originals - "Compulsion," "Legacy," "Premonition," and "Limbo" - given deeply engaged performances by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, saxophonist John Gilmore, bassists Cecil McBee and Richard Davis, drummer Joe Chambers, and percussionists Nedi Qamar and Renaud Simmons.