Andrew Hill - Smoke Stack

Here's the original

Andrew Hill, piano
Richard Davis, Eddie Khan, basses
Roy Haynes, drums

The genius starts with the composition and is matched through the instrumentation and personnel - the two basses - and the powerful playing of all, Roy Haynes not least of all.

Here is a far too rare cover by the Vijay Iyer Trio

Vijay Iyer, piano
Stephan Crump, bass
Marcus Gilmore, drums

While nothing can compare with Andrew Hill's recording, this is pretty good and a welcome and way too rare cover of an Andrew Hill composition.   Andrew Hill is certainly one of the greatest composers of the past half-century whose music can match anyone's in quality and creative genius.