| Sixty-Eight | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Billy Hart |
| Cover: | Sixty-Eight (album).jpg |
| Released: | January 18, 2011 |
| Recorded: | October 17, 2009 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 69:30 |
| Label: | SteepleChase SCCD 31707 |
| Producer: | Nils Winther |
| Prev Title: | Live at the Cafe Damberd |
| Prev Year: | 2009 |
| Next Title: | All Our Reasons |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
Sixty-Eight is a jazz album by drummer Billy Hart, released on SteepleChase in 2011.[1] The album marks Hart's 68th recording for Steeplechase (and his first as a leader on the label), and his 68th year.
The AllMusic review by Ken Dryden states "Billy Hart's inspired drumming is the undercurrent of the date, pushing the younger musicians to play at the top of their respective games". JazzTimes Thomas Conrad noted "Like a new-millennium Art Blakey, Hart leads a young sextet of hot emerging players, but the band here is edgier than the Jazz Messengers ever were. The careening, cacophonous repertoire comes from an earlier generation of free thinkers like Ornette Coleman and Sam Rivers. ...But the best thing about a recording led by Hart is the generous exposure to his volcanically eruptive, complex creative process".[2]