Dreams Come True (Andrew Hill & Chico Hamilton album) explained

Dreams Come True
Type:Album
Artist:Andrew Hill
Cover:Dreams Come True (Andrew Hill & Chico Hamilton album).jpg
Released:2008
Recorded:March 25–26, 1993
Studio:Master Sound Astoria Studios, New York
Genre:Jazz
Length:55:26
Label:Joyous Shout!
Producer:Andrew Hill
Chronology:Andrew Hill
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Dreams Come True is an album of duets by American jazz pianist Andrew Hill and drummer Chico Hamilton recorded in 1993 but not released until 2008 on the Joyous Shout! label.[1] The album features four of Hill's original compositions, two by Hamilton and two covers.

Reception

The Time Out New York review by Hank Shteamer stated "It’s a major work befitting its fairy-tale title... No pianist achieved a more seamless blend of weirdness and warmth, and few recordings illustrate that as potently as this one".[2]

On All About Jazz Lyn Horton said: "The two instrumentalists nearly partition themselves from one another and the correspondence that occurs between them is thoroughly engaging, intriguing and challenging ... The duo's intention is not to establish synchrony but to discover the groove that surges out of placing musical elements against each other; developing an expressiveness that rises from that coincidence, which is strangely connected".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Andrew Hill except where noted

  1. "Ohho" (Russel Baba) - 8:07
  2. "Three Notes & A Brush" (Chico Hamilton) - 7:25
  3. "Watch That Dream" - 11:16
  4. "And the Drums Sing" (Hamilton) - 4:00
  5. "Clifford's Gone" - 3:34
  6. "Shaw Nuff" (Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker) - 8:42
  7. "Bless That Dream, Maybe Hope" - 3:38
  8. "Composition B" - 9:14

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Hill/hill-disc.htm Andrew Hill discography
  2. Shteamer, H. Dreams Come True Review, Time Out New York, September 24, 2008
  3. Horton, L. All About Jazz Review accessed November 29, 2019