Amethyst (Billy Hart album)

Amethyst is an album by American jazz drummer Billy Hart recorded in 1993 and released on the Arabesque label.^[1][2]

Amethyst
Studio album by Billy Hart
Released	1993
Recorded	May 27 & 29, 1993
Studio	Sound on Sound Recording, Inc., NYC
Genre	Jazz
Length	66:52
Label	Arabesque AJ0105
Producer	Marc Copland
Billy Hart chronology
Rah (1988) Amethyst (1993) Oceans of Time (1996)

Reception

Professional ratings

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

AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars with its review by David R. Adler stating, "there's plenty of beautiful music on the album, plenty of representative brilliance from all these fine players, and even a substantial amount of originality and vision".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Billy Hart except as indicated

1. "Amethyst" - 12:14
2. "King of Harts" (John Stubblefield) - 7:35
3. "El Junque" (Santi Debriano) - 7:32
4. "Melanos" (David Fiuzynski) - 10:09
5. "Irah" - 6:52
6. "Asylum" (Mark Feldman) - 12:05
7. "Dirty Dogs" (David Kikoski) - 10:25

Personnel

• Billy Hart - drums
• John Stubblefield - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
• David Fiuczynski - guitar
• David Kikoski - piano
• Marc Copland - keyboards (tracks 5 & 6)
• Mark Feldman - violin
• Santi Debriano - bass