Hamiet Bluiett

Dangerously Suite is the album baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett recorded in New York on April 9, 1981 for Soul Note, a quintet with piano, bass and drums widened by the voice of Irene Datcher and the African drums of Chief Bey. Bluiett wrote seven of the nine pieces, Bey wrote one, and the closing Rain Shout is credited to both. At the time Bluiett was five years into the World Saxophone Quartet, the four-horn group with no bass, no drums and no piano whose debut NPR dates to 1976. In its 2018 obituary NPR wrote that for more than four decades he "found a way to combine the avant-garde with traditional jazz", and this session puts his horn back in front of a full rhythm section, with extra percussion and a singer.

Bob Neloms plays piano, Buster Williams bass and Billy Hart drums, while Bluiett plays baritone saxophone and alto clarinet. He also produced the date, with Giovanni Bonandrini as executive producer; Frank Filipetti recorded it at Right Track Recording in New York and mixed it there on April 17, 1981. The opening Between the Raindrops is the longest track at over eight minutes, followed by the Ballad of Eddie Jefferson and Full, Deep and Mellow, both between six and seven minutes. Bey's Prayer lasts a minute and twenty seconds and leads into Blues for Atlanta Georgia; Mighty Denn, Doll Baby and Oasis follow at four to six minutes each, before the two-minute Rain Shout closes the album. The record runs about 44 minutes in all.

This is the Soul Note CD 121018-2, which Discogs lists as a reissue of the album first released on LP in 1981 as SN 1018.