"This album, recorded in 1968 with a stellar band, was not issued until 1980. This is Hill at his most visionary. From hard- and post bop frames come modal and tonal inquiries of staggering complexity. Accompanied by Charles Tolliver (t), Joe Farrell (s), Billy Higgins (d) and Victor Sproles (b), Hill engages, seemingly, all of his muses at once. Check out the sinister modal blues that is "Fish 'N' Rice" with its Eastern-tinged blues and loping horn lines around Hill's knotty fills in the head and choruses. In "Partitions" the steaming head is so rigorously tangled it's only the counterpoint of Hill's piano that makes an exit possible, with deep blues underpinnings and strident swinging soul. The title cut dances Afro-Cuban in the head, but Hill's piano is in a minor modal groove, with Higgins playing a textural, syncopated four-four as Sproles' punches on the two and four as the solos begin winding through the modes, bringing back the blues on tags. A phenomenal record." (Thom Jurek, Allmusic)
"In deze fascinerende puntje-van-je-stoel-muziek zijn er nauwelijks pakkende themas en ritmes; solos zijn verweven met de ritmesectie. Hills pianospel is, als dat van Monk, sober. Bij Hill zijn improvisaties geen omspelingen van de melodie, maar abstractere frasen die er zijdelings naar verwijzen. Toch is dit bij lange na geen free jazz; het onderlinge verband is er wel, maar je moet het zelf ontdekken. Hill wordt o.a. bijgestaan door de zwaar onderschatte tijdgenoot Charles Tolliver (t)." (FvH, VK)
"Originally released by Strata East as Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival, this CD reissue features the great but very underrated trumpeter Charles Tolliver in a quartet with pianist John Hicks, bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Alvin Queen. The group performs three of the leader's songs plus Cowell's "Prayer for Peace" and Neal Hefti's "Repetition"; the lengthy renditions clock in between 11 and 17 minutes apiece. Tolliver's music (which holds on to one's attention throughout the live set) has its connections to the bebop tradition but also forges ahead and can be quite passionate. Recommended."
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