Andrew Hill - Passing Ships (2003)

In its Connoisseur Series, Blue Note is making available a completely unreleased Andrew Hill date from 1969. Passing Ships wasn't even included in the Mosaic box because the master tape wasn't found until 2001. The band Hill employed on this session was a nonet, featuring Woody Shaw and Dizzy Reece on trumpets, Joe Farrell on reeds, woodwinds, and English horn, Howard Johnson on tuba and bass clarinet, Ron Carter on bass, Lenny White (on only his second recording date) playing drums, trombonist Julian Priester, and French horn player Bob Northern. The music here is ambitious. Why this isn't going to be out there for the general public for all time is beyond reason. Conventional wisdom would suggest that something that has been unearthed for the first time in 34 years deserves to be a part of the general catalog. (allmusic.com)

Tracklist:
01. Sideways (4:06)
02. Passing Ships (7:04)
03. Plantation Bag (8:29)
04. Noon Tide (9:48)
05. The Brown Queen (6:19)
06. Cascade (6:25)
07. Yesterday's Tomorrow (5:08)