The second date where Gilmore played with Hill is this record. Compulsion and Andrew!!! are very different records. While Andrew!!! was a demanding exercise in complex modal jazz Compulsion brings in more of an "afro" influence to the table.
The afro influence is brought into the record via two specialized drummers who played various percussive instruments coupled with Joe Chambers who accompanied them with good old regular drum set. Those two components were the main building blocks on which the rest of the album was made. The compositions are long and varied, most of them being around ten minutes. The interesting part is that Andrew tried to use his piano more as a percussive instrument rather than a regular piano and the results vary in success. Sometimes it sounds great but at times it can also sound like he's just bashing stuff in. But probably the main stars on the album are Freddie Hubbard and Gilmore of course. They both get a lot of space and time to improvise and correlate their instruments during these long passages of drumming..
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