Compulsion

Hill's piano playing has a logic you can follow without being able to predict it — rhythmically slippery but always musical, always pulling toward something. Recorded live at Montmartre with a larger ensemble than his typical quartet, it captures an energy his studio albums don't quite reach. It came out on Blue Note during a period when the label was releasing so much that records like this got filed away before people could catch up.

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