Amethyst (Billy Hart album)

Amethyst is an album by American jazz drummer Billy Hart recorded in 1993 and released on the Arabesque label.[1][2]

Amethyst
Studio album by
Released1993
RecordedMay 27 & 29, 1993
StudioSound on Sound Recording, Inc., NYC
GenreJazz
Length66:52
LabelArabesque
AJ0105
ProducerMarc Copland
Billy Hart chronology
Rah
(1988)
Amethyst
(1993)
Oceans of Time
(1996)

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

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".[3]

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

References

  1. Billy Hart discography accessed February 3, 2015
  2. Jazzlists: Arabesque Jazz discography accessed May 14, 2018
  3. Adler, D. R., Allmusic Review accessed February 3, 2015
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 661. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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