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Andrew Hill: Discografia di Andrew Hill come leader
by AAJ Italy Staff
Le principali incisioni da leader: 1959 - So In Love - Warwick Andrew Hill (p), Malachi Favors (b), James Slaughter (d). 1963 - Black Fire - Blue Note Joe Henderson (ts), Andrew Hill (p), Richard Davis (b), Roy Haynes (d). 1963 - Smokestack - Blue Note Andrew Hill (p), Richard Davis, Eddie Khan (b), Roy Haynes (d). 1964 - Judgment! - Blue Note Bobby Hutcherson (vib), Andrew Hill (p), Richard Davis (b), Elvin Jones (d). 1964 - Point Of Departure ...
Continue ReadingAndrew Hill: Mosaic Select 23
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non ho mai apprezzato i commenti improntati al compiaciuto elzeviro biografico, quelle melense narrazioni al limite dell’agiografia che tanto piacciono ai critici attempati e ai nostalgici del jazz dei tempi eroici, quando Mingus scazzottava con chiunque lo importunasse, Charlie Parker si imbottiva di stupefacenti, Billie Holiday di Whisky e Miles Davis maltrattava brutalmente i musicisti che lo accompagnavano. Ho sempre pensato che il concentrarsi morbosamente sul jazz life-style, e sui luoghi comuni che da sempre lo tallonano, non abbia fatto ...
Continue ReadingAndrew Hill: Mosaic Select 16
by AAJ Italy Staff
Andrew Hill e la Blue Note. C’è un dato numerico che mi ha sempre colpito nel primo, meraviglioso, sodalizio che legò il pianista di Chicago all’etichetta di Alfred Lion dal 1963 al 1970: l’enorme sproporzione tra il materiale pubblicato - nove le uscite ufficiali - e le numerose, numerosissime, incisioni rimaste sepolte negli scantinati per decine di anni. Cosa spingeva la Blue Note a concedere carta bianca al proprio pupillo - Lion ha sempre dichiarato che Hill fu una delle ...
Continue ReadingAndrew Hill: Change
by Troy Collins
Completed only five months after Compulsion (Blue Note, 1965), pianist Andrew Hill's creative free-form breakthrough, this quartet session was recorded, edited, titled and cataloged, but never officially released under his own name. Unceremoniously shelved at the time, like a number of recent reissues documenting Hill's more experimental 1960s work, the six principle cuts were eventually issued under Sam Rivers' name as Involution (Blue Note, 1976). The two alternate takes were included in The Complete Blue Note Andrew Hill Sessions 1963-1966 ...
Continue ReadingAndrew Hill: Compulsion!!!!!
by AAJ Staff
The news of Andrew Hill's passing Apr. 20, 2007 at age 75 has shaken the jazz world to the core, bringing many to pause and reflect, then head straight for the pianist's extensive now-available discography. Blue Note Records documented his every step from 1963-70 with over a dozen recordings and, with his most recent return to the label--the critically acclaimed Time Lines (2006)--his status as a giant of this music is without question. Most of those Blue ...
Continue ReadingAndrew Hill: Compulsion!!!!!
by Norman Weinstein
The five exclamation marks following the word Compulsion are completely appropriate for a title. Of all the distinguished albums of Andrew Hill's career as a pianist/composer, this is arguably the most passionately executed. The monumentality of this recording can best be realized by looking at its recording date of 1965. Coltrane was leaving his classic quartet and experimenting with multiple drummers. Archie Shepp was likewise experimenting with heavily augmented percussion sections. Art Blakey's earlier recordings with various African and neo-African ...
Continue ReadingAndrew Hill: Mosaic Select 23: Andrew Hill - Solo
by Matthew Miller
The three discs that comprise this fascinating box set reissue capture pianist Andrew Hill at a unique time in his tumultuous career. After a series of successes for Blue Note in the '60s, Hill--a man as elusive as his inscrutable music--in essence disappeared from the New York scene, taking a teaching position upstate and playing, as he states in the liner notes from an album of the period, “in rural America. Hill's decision in 1976 to move to California in ...
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