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Andrew Hill (June 30, 1931 – April 20, 2007) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Jazz critic John Fordham described Hill as a "uniquely gifted composer, pianist and educator" although "his status remained largely inside knowledge in the jazz world for most of his career."
Nov 7, 2023 · Pianist and composer Andrew Hill’s jazz masterpiece “Point of Departure” gets lovingly reissued, shedding some light on the jewel in the crown amidst his flurry of albums for Blue Note in the mid-1960s.
Point of Departure is a studio album by American jazz pianist and composer Andrew Hill, recorded in 1964 and released in 1965 on the Blue Note label. It features Hill in a sextet with alto saxophonist Eric Dolphy, tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, trumpeter Kenny Dorham, bassist Richard Davis and drummer Tony Williams .
Apr 30, 2022 · Footage showing an injured British man who has been captured in Ukraine has been broadcast on Russian state television. The clip, released by Moscow’s defence ministry, showed the man with a ...
Jul 11, 2023 · Andrew Hill’s ‘Black Fire’: Throughway to the Future. The essential Blue Note album announced a revelatory vision of jazz — and impacted generations of progressive pianists, among them Vijay Iyer and Jason Moran. July 11, 2023 by Michael J. West
Nov 8, 2023 · On Friday, November 8, 1963, Andrew Hill walked into Van Gelder Studio at Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, for his maiden recording session for Blue Note Records. Following a second stint at...
One of the most original pianists to emerge in the 1960s, Andrew Hill teetered between straight-ahead playing (as a sideman) and the avant-garde, and most of his own albums exist in the middle of those two patches, never banal or too extreme.
Andrew Hill was a great and even groundbreaking composer and pianist, yet the relatively circumscribed scale of his innovations might have originally caused him to get lost in the shuffle of the ’60s free jazz revolution.
Mar 21, 2024 · Andrew Hill’s 1965 LP ‘Point Of Departure’ for Blue Note Records was his magnum opus, revealing a highly original musical mind.
Mar 21, 2014 · Andrew Hill was a pianist and composer of extraordinary talent, his spare and angular style and rhythmic and melodic concepts are wholly his own. His harmonic ideas also fall into the...
