High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hill first recorded as a sideman in 1954, but his reputation was made by his Blue Note recordings as leader from 1963 to 1970, which featured several other important post-bop musicians including Joe Chambers, Richard Davis, Eric Dolphy, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, Woody Shaw, and Tony Williams, as well as John Gilmore.Hill also played on albums by Henderson, Hutcherson, and Hank Mobley. His distinctive compositions accounted for four of the six pieces on Bobby Hutcherson's classic Dialogue album.