Jazz Articles about Andrew Hill

About Andrew Hill

Album Review

With the recent spate of deaths hitting the jazz community as hard as they have, you have to be even more grateful that guys like Andrew Hill are still around. And not only is Hill alive and kicking but he's still writing and playing with a vitality and freshness that continue to be his own exclusive property. Dusk proves to be a precious new chapter in Hill's discography, coming some ten years after his last two reunion efforts for Blue ...

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Andrew Hill: Dusk

by Mark Corroto
June 1, 2000

Alfred Lion, founder of Blue Note records, reaction to encountering pianist Andrew Hill's music said it was exactly like the experience he had the first time he heard Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols. Lion and Blue Note devoted most of the 1960s to recording sessions for Hill. His sixties sessions were unique post-Monk visions somewhere between bop and the avant-garde. Like Herbie Nichols, Hill didn't receive the deserved public recognition during his Blue Note career. And unlike Monk, he didn't ...

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Andrew Hill: Grass Roots

Read "Grass Roots" reviewed by David Adler

by David Adler
April 1, 2000

This reissue contains not only Hill’s original LP, but also a previously unreleased session from four months prior. On this earlier session, an entirely different lineup plays three of the tunes from Grass Roots, along with two numbers from deep within the vault — “MC," a tribal 12/8 blues, and “Love Nocturne," an angular quasi-ballad. Thanks to the juxtaposition of the two sessions, we are afforded a rare treat: a chance to listen closely to the stylistic contrasts between Lee ...