Artist: Andrew Hill
Genre(s):
Jazz
Pop
Folk
Vocal
Other
Discography:
Time Lines
Year: 2006
Tracks: 8
Smoke Stack
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Pax
Year: 2006
Tracks: 7
Judgment!
Year: 2005
Tracks: 7
Andrew!!!
Year: 2005
Tracks: 8
Dance With Death
Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
Passing Ships
Year: 2003
Tracks: 7
Grass Roots
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Point of Departure
Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
Divine Revelation
Year: 1994
Tracks: 6
But Not Farewell
Year: 1990
Tracks: 7
Complete Blue Note Sessions (1963-66) CD5
Year: 1963
Tracks: 9
Complete Blue Note Sessions (1963-66) CD3
Year: 1963
Tracks: 8
Complete Blue Note Sessions (1963-66) CD2
Year: 1963
Tracks: 10
The Complete Blue Note Andrew Hill Sessions Disc 4
Year:
Tracks: 1
Complete Blue Note Sessions CD7
Year:
Tracks: 8
Complete Blue Note Sessions CD6
Year:
Tracks: 7
Complete Blue Note Sessions CD1
Year:
Tracks: 11
Andrew Hill was a majuscule and even groundbreaking composer and piano player, yet the comparatively circumscribed scale of his innovations mightiness take in the beginning caused him to get befuddled in the scuffle of the '60s dislodge jazz revolution. While many of his contemporaries were all jettisoning the rhythmic and harmonical techniques of boP and concentrated federal Bureau of Prisons, Hill worked to protract their possibilities; his was a revolution from inside. Much of the most compelling '60s jazz was intimately aleatoric; Hill, on the other hand, exhibited a determined command of his materials, however abstract they might sometimes be. His composed melodies were labyrinthian, and rhythmically and harmonically coordination compound tunes like "Young Monastery" from his Point of Departure record album exhibit a sophism born of subordination, non hazard or contingency. As a piano player, Hill had a flowing melodicism and an elastic sense of time. Like his composing, Hill's playing had an ever-present air of spontaneousness and was nigh totally barren of cliché.
He began playing the pianoforte at about the age of 13. As a nipper in Chicago, Hill was encouraged by pianist Earl Hines. Jazz composer Bill Russo also took an interest, and introduced Hill to the famed classical composer Paul Hindemith, with whom Hill studied from 1950-1952. While in his teens, he gigged with large jazz musicians passing through and through the Midwest, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker among them. In 1955, he recorded So in Love with the Sound of Andrew Hill for the Warwick label. He affected to New York in 1961 to play with singer Dinah Washington. After a brief foray to Los Angeles with Rahsaan Roland Kirk's band in 1962, Hill affected back to New York, where he began his transcription career in businesslike.
He made several records for Blue Note from 1963-1969, both as loss leader and sideman. Hill's Blue Note play featured some of the c. H. Best and brightest post-bop musicians of the clarence Day, including Eric Dolphy, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Tony Williams, and Freddie Hubbard. Like many jazz musicians, Hill eventually sour to academia to make a living. He received his doctor's degree from Colgate University and served as the school's composer in residence from 1970-1972. Hill relocated to the West Coast, education in public schools and prisons in California. He finally landed a teaching place at Portland State University, where he established the school's Summer Jazz Intensive. In summation to his teaching, Hill continued to perform and record in the '70s and '80s, making records for the Arista-Freedom and Black Saint/Soul Note labels. In 1989 and 1990, Hill recorded doubly more for Blue Note, Endless Spirit and Simply Not Farewell.
Hill moved back to the New York area in the '90s; a serial of performances and new recordings helped piazza him endorse in the wind spot. Hill formed a new Point of Departure Sextet for the Knitting Factory's 1998 Texaco Jazz Festival. The band included saxophonists Marty Ehrlich and Greg Tardy, trumpeter Ron Horton, bassist Scott Colley, and drummer Billy Drummond. The band went on to play New York golf club engagements to much herald. In 2000, Palmetto Records released Twilight, which was named the best album of 2001 by Down Beat and Jazz Times magazines. It was followed by A Beautiful Day in 2002, Passage Ships in 2003, and Black Fire in 2004, as well as a solid series of Blue Note reissues of his '60s solve that included bonus tracks and modern liner notes. His 2006 album, Time Lines, reunited him with both herald Charles Tolliver and the Blue Note label. Hill too participated in a 17-piece great dance orchestra, and a January 2002 engagement at New York's Birdland was filmed and recorded by Palmetto for future broadcast. After battling lung cancer for many days, Hill succumbed to the disease on April 20, 2007, going away behind a stunning bequest of work.
