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Amethyst (Billy Hart album)

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Released
  
1993

Amethyst (1993)
  
Oceans of Time (1996)

Release date
  
1993

Label
  
Arabesque Records

Length
  
66:52

Artist
  
Billy Hart

Producer
  
Marc Copland

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
May 27 & 29, 1993 at Sound on Sound Recording, Inc., NYC

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Amethyst is an album by American jazz drummer Billy Hart recorded in 1993 and released on the Arabesque label.

Contents

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars with its review by David R. Adler stating, "there's plenty of beautiful music on the album, plenty of representative brilliance from all these fine players, and even a substantial amount of originality and vision".

Track listing

All compositions by Billy Hart except as indicated

  1. "Amethyst" - 12:14
  2. "King of Harts" (John Stubblefield) - 7:35
  3. "El Junque" (Santi Debriano) - 7:32
  4. "Melanos" (David Fiuzynski) - 10:09
  5. "Irah" - 6:52
  6. "Asylum" (Mark Feldman) - 12:05
  7. "Dirty Dogs" (David Kikoski) - 10:25

Personnel

  • Billy Hart - drums
  • John Stubblefield - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • David Fiuzynski - guitar
  • David Kikoski - piano
  • Marc Copland - keyboards (tracks 5 & 6)
  • Mark Feldman - violin
  • Santi Debriano - bass
  • Songs

    1Amethyst12:17
    2King of Harts7:37
    3El Junque7:33

    References

    Amethyst (Billy Hart album) Wikipedia