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Strange Serenade is an album by American jazz pianist and composer Andrew Hill, recorded in June 1980 and released later that year on the Italian label Soul Note. Andrew Hill discography accessed October 1, 2010
The album features three of Hill's original compositions and one by Laverne Hill. Performed in a trio format, Strange Serenade showcases Hill's distinctive approach to jazz, characterized by his innovative use of harmony and rhythm.
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album 3 stars and noted, "This is as dour and dark as anything Hill has committed to record. Silva and Waits are ideal partners in music that isn't so much minor-key as surpassingly ambiguous in its harmonic language. Hill seems, on occasion, to be exploring ideas that can be traced back to Bud Powell—not the straight bebop language so much as the more impressionistic aspects. There are curious, light broken triplets and wide-interval phrases that seem to come straight from Bud's last recordings."
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