Billy Hart Quartet

Billy Hart Quartet
Studio album by Billy Hart
Released	August 1, 2006
Recorded	October 14 & 15, 2005
Studio	Ambient Recording, Easton, Connecticut
Genre	Jazz
Length	66:59
Label	HighNote HCD 7158
Producer	The Fiesta
Billy Hart chronology
Oceans of Time (1997) Billy Hart Quartet (2006) Route F (2006)

Billy Hart Quartet is an album by American jazz drummer Billy Hart recorded in 2005 and released on the HighNote label. ^{[1] [2]}

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
All About Jazz	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[5]

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Ken Dryden stating, "Since this was a working band for some time prior to the making of Quartet, the musicians were already of one mind, rather than being thrown together and trying to make something out of brand new, unfamiliar charts. ...The interplay between the four men and the intensity of their individual solos leave no doubt that this quartet has earned a return trip to the studio for a follow-up session". ^[3] All About Jazz's John Kelman said "Quartet may be a mainstream record, but it's a wholly modernistic one where Hart's group approaches the middle from a decidedly left-of-center point of view." ^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Billy Hart except as indicated

1. "Mellow B" (Ethan Iverson) - 9:47
2. "Moment's Notice" (John Coltrane) - 4:31
3. "Charvez" - 7:34
4. "Confirmation" (Charlie Parker) - 7:32
5. "Lorca" - 8:42
6. "Irah" - 5:31
7. "Lullaby for Imke" - 6:10
8. "Iverson's Odyssey" (Mark Turner) - 8:19
9. "Neon" (Iverson) - 8:53

Personnel

• Billy Hart - drums
• Mark Turner - tenor saxophone
• Ethan Iverson - piano
• Ben Street - bass

References

1. HighNote Records discography accessed February 3, 2015
2. Lyles, R. Mark Turner Discography, accessed May 7, 2019
3. Dryden, K., Allmusic Review accessed February 3, 2015
4. Kelman, J., All About Jazz Review, September 13, 2006
5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 661. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.