Jazz Articles about Andrew Hill

Andrew Hill: Mosaic Select 23: Andrew Hill - Solo

by John Kelman
December 18, 2006

Andrew Hill Mosaic Select 23: Andrew Hill - Solo Mosaic Records 2006

In many ways 2006 could be considered the year of pianist Andrew Hill. He's renewed his association with Blue Note Records, where he got his start in the 1960s and on which he released a body of work which is only now being fully and properly appreciated. This year's Blue Note album, Time Lines, represents another pinnacle in a career filled with ...

On the Hill: Smokestack; Andrew!!!; Pax; New Monastery

by Andrey Henkin
November 4, 2006

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Of Blue Note's triumvirate of '60s pianists, Andrew Hill will always ...

Andrew Hill: Smoke Stack

by John Kelman
August 3, 2006

Emerging at the beginning of the '60s, Andrew Hill was always difficult to pigeonhole. The pianist was too aligned with mainstream harmony to be considered avant garde, too complex a writer to be considered free, too abstruse a player to be considered mainstream. The people at Blue Note knew they had a gem when they signed him. What they didn't know was that it would be decades before his value was truly appreciated.

But better late than never. Smoke Stack, ...

Andrew Hill: Blue Black and Nefertiti

by Kevin Ray
June 4, 2006

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One of the most mindless quirks of some jazz listeners is major label prejudice. Take for example those vaguely familiar with pianist Andrew Hill's albums Blue Black and Nefertiti, both recorded for the semi-obscure East Wind ...

Andrew Hill: Timelines

by Matthew Miller
May 15, 2006

March was a month to celebrate. It saw the release of Andrew Hill's new album, Time Lines (for his alma mater, Blue Note), and found him leading a powerhouse quintet for four magical nights at Birdland. The visionary's legions of fans gave him a joyous reception in concert, and there is no end of buzz around his latest effort (many questioned the likelihood of his return to music after he was diagnosed with cancer in 2004). To be sure, Hill ...

Andrew Hill: Time Lines and Full Circles

by Paul Olson
March 11, 2006

Andrew Hill's a busy man. “I'm playing in New York in March and after that, I'm going to Europe for a European promo for a few days with the quintet, he smiles. “The next month, I'm touring Europe then touring Europe again a bit after that. I have a commitment to do a string quartet, which I'm working on. There's a lot of things going on. Quite an agenda for someone who was diagnosed ...

Andrew Hill: Coming Back Full Circle

by Paul Olson
February 27, 2006

Although pianist/composer Andrew Hill has recorded for a variety of record labels, he is, in many ways, one of the quintessential Blue Note recording artists. Signed to the label after relocating to New York from his native Chicago in the early 1960s by label founder Alfred Lion (who later referred to the pianist/composer/bandleader as his “last great protégé ), Hill produced a remarkable series of recordings--Black Fire, Andrew! and Point of Departure, to name several--that, with the support of musicians ...