Invitation is an album by American jazz pianist Andrew Hill

Andrew Hill

Andrew Hill was an American jazz pianist and composer.Hill is recognized as one of the most important innovators of jazz piano in the 1960s...

 recorded in 1974 and released on the Danish SteepleChase

SteepleChase Records

SteepleChase Records is a jazz record label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time...

 label. The album features five of Hill's original compositions and one jazz standard

Jazz standard

Jazz standards are musical compositions which are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners. There is no definitive list of jazz standards, and the list of songs deemed to be...

 performed by a trio

Trio

- Musical ensembles and forms :*Trio , three people performing music in some way*Piano trio *String trio *Trio *Clarinet-violin-piano trio...

. The CD added one alternate take as a bonus track.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 4 stars stating "Such fascinating music will be of great interest to fans of Andrew Hill".

Track listing

All compositions by Andrew Hill except as indicated

1. "Catfish" – 6:31
2. "Lost No More" – 5:23
3. "Morning Flower" – 12:19
4. "Invitation" (Bronisław Kaper) – 8:40
5. "Laverne" – 7:33
6. "Little John" – 6:51
7. "Catfish" [alternate take] - 10:39 Bonus track on CD
   • Recorded at Minot Sound Studios, White Plains, New York on October 17, 1974

Personnel

• Andrew Hill
  Andrew Hill
  Andrew Hill was an American jazz pianist and composer.Hill is recognized as one of the most important innovators of jazz piano in the 1960s...
  
   – piano
  Piano
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• Chris White – bass
  Double bass
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• Art Lewis
  Art Lewis
  Arthur Everett "Pappy" Lewis was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a lineman at Ohio University from 1932 to 1935 and then in the National Football League with the New York Giants in 1936 and the Cleveland Rams from 1938 to 1939...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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