Jazz Articles about William Hill III

About William Hill III

Album Review

William Hill III: Keep it Movin'

Read "Keep it Movin'" reviewed by Paul Rauch

by Paul Rauch
September 23, 2025

The story surrounding the young Detroit pianist William Hill III reads like many in today's jazz world--raised in the fertile ground of a dynamic local jazz scene and then on to New York to pursue the music. This is the case even when that local scene is one of the most prolific in the history of jazz in Detroit--the best tend to move on, in Hill's case, to the acclaimed Manhattan School of Music. While steering steadily through that modern ...

Album Review

Jauron Perry: Jauron Perry Quintet Live at the 2024 Detroit Jazz Festival

Read "Jauron Perry Quintet Live at the 2024 Detroit Jazz Festival" reviewed by Paul Rauch

by Paul Rauch
March 17, 2025

The Detroit Jazz Festival is the largest free jazz festival in the world, staged smack dab in the middle of one of the great jazz cities in the world. The city and surrounding area is a hotbed for jazz talent as well, historically and presently. Trumpeter Jauron Perry is one of the latest such talents to emerge, making his debut recording at the festival as the winner of the 2024 Detroit Jazz Festival National Combo Competition. Perry's quintet won a ...

Album Review

Mike Monford: The Cloth I'm Cut From (Live at Cliff Bell's)

Read "The Cloth I'm Cut From (Live at Cliff Bell's)" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
October 30, 2024

Partenza felice, che lascerebbe supporre un album tutto diverso da ciò che questo nuovo lavoro del sassofonista contralto Mike Monford, qui anche arrangiatore di tutti i pezzi (due dei quali suoi, gli altri di Lee Morgan, Jackie McLean e Abbey Lincoln), si rivela invece dopo soli tre minuti, con la partenza di quel ritmo latineggiante che così nettamente si discosta da quel prologo, che arriveremmo a definire atmosferico-sperimentale. C'è molta luce, ovviamente molto ritmo (e anche un ...