Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Andrew Hill


Related Topics

  
  Andrew Hill: Time Lines
Hill is able to give the impression that you are listening to free jazz even during composed sections, and he can make his more avant-garde impulses seem perfectly within the mainstream.
It’s certainly not necessary for us to ‘reevaluate’ Andrew Hill’s music because it was always brilliant and it still is. Rather, we feel very lucky to have the opportunity to hear new music from this giant of modern jazz, and music that is of extremely high quality even in the face of advancing age.
Hill has never been the best known of jazz performers to the public at large, but he is uniformly admired by musicians, jazz fans, and music writers.
www.jazzitude.com /hill_timelines.htm   (691 words)

  
 ANDREW P. HILL- ARTIST, SANTA CLARA PIONEER BIOGRAPHY
Hill brings to his work the energy, excellence and distinction which is characteristic of the undertakings of the artists, authors and statesmen of the state of Indiana, where he was born near Valparaiso, Porter County, August 9, 1853, and where he lived until he was fourteen.
Hill is descended from colonial stock, for his mother Jennie (Rose) Hill, was the daughter of Henry Montgomery and Sallie (Frisby) Rose, the former of whom served in the War of 1812, and was in turn the son of a Revolutionary soldier.
Hill was known as the "Murphy Party," the first emigrant party ascending to the summit from Donner Lake, and which because of its faithfulness to incidents of the pioneer life of the state, was purchased and placed in the historical room of the California Pioneers' Association of San Francisco, but destroyed by fire in 1906.
www.santaclararesearch.net /SCBIOS/aphill.html   (2386 words)

  
 Point Of Departure - Andrew Hill, Music Downloads - Online
From the opening moments of "Refuge," with its complex minor mode intro that moves headlong via Hill's large, open chords that flat sevenths, ninths, and even 11ths in their striding to move through the mode, into a wellspring of angular hard bop and minor-key blues.
Hill's solo is first and it cooks along in the upper middle register, almost all right hand ministrations, creating with his left a virtual counterpoint for Davis and a skittering wash of notes for Williams.
Hill chills it out with gorgeous legato phrasing and a left-hand ostinato that cuts through the murk in the harmony.
musicstore.connect.com /album/256/Andrew-Hill/Point-Of-Departure/500000000000001024944.html   (466 words)

  
 Andrew Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hill took up piano at 13, and was encouraged by Earl Hines.
Hill has rarely worked as a sideman since the 1960s.
Andrew Hill has continued to perform and record, working in the avant garde and modal jazz idioms.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Hill   (339 words)

  
 Jazz legend Andrew Hill wins 2003 JAZZPAR prize
Andrew Hill, the hero of 1960s jazz piano who took a ten-year break from recording in the 1990s, has returned with such a force that he has won the JAZZPAR prize, the world's largest international jazz award.
Hill will accept the prize, along with a bronze statuette designed by Danish artist Jurgen Haugen Serensen, at a ceremony at the historic Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen on April 27.
Hill's intriguing style, as showcased on his newest Palmetto CD A Beautiful Day (recorded live with a big band at Birdland), embraces the full scope of jazz and reflects his wide range of personal influences.
www.gibson.com /whatsnew/pressrelease/2003/mar28a.html   (444 words)

  
 Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill was born June 30, 1937 in Chicago and started playing jazz at age 13, copying the playing of Bud Powell, Thelonius Monk and Art Tatum.
Andrew recorded two more albums in 1980 and two in 1986 for Italy's Soul Note label before he returned to Blue Note for an album in 1989.
Andrew is widely considered a most important jazz pianist and composer.
www.otherminds.org /shtml/Hill.shtml   (297 words)

  
 Andrew Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hill left Blue Note in 1970, after which he recorded rarely and not always to great advantage.
In a mere four minutes, Hill packs "ML" with an a cappella horn introduction, a duet for the pianist and Ehrlich's alto sax, and full-ensemble sections that blend writing and soloing before the rhythm section disappears, leaving the horns alone to take it out.
A Hill composition, like one of Monk's, demands that a soloist meet it on its own terms and find his own voice within it.
www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/00/06/08/ANDREW_HILL.html   (706 words)

  
 Andrew Hill: Time Lines - PopMatters Music Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hill has always found a way to make atonality, free rhythmic feeling and angular melody into music that still moves dramatically, telling a story that most listeners want to stick around to hear.
Hill has composed and devised a program that seems to glance behind and ahead at the same time—which suggests that he knows he’s somehow “returning” even though he is a guy who generally doesn’t look back.
Hill approaches the task with great attention to the stuttered note, using it as a motif from which he strays in various clusters and Monkish shards.
www.popmatters.com /pm/music/reviews/andrew_hill_time_lines   (970 words)

  
 Stancil & Co. - Andrew E. Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Proven abilities, energy, and entrepreneurial spirit are a theme throughout his career as owner and CEO of Hill Petroleum Company and President of two companies formed since the sale of Hill Petroleum.
Hill Petroleum started as a gasoline blending operation in Louisiana and grew into a refining business with a new refinery in Krotz Springs, Louisiana.
Hill Petroleum was sold to Phibro in 1986.
www.stancilco.com /hillres.html   (545 words)

  
 CMT.com : Andrew Hill : Biography
Andrew Hill has been 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.
Hill moved back to the New York area in the '90s; a series of performances and new recordings helped place him back in the jazz spotlight.
Hill also participates in a 17-piece big band and a January 2002 engagement at New York's Birdland was filmed and recorded by Palmetto for future broadcast.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/hill_andrew/bio.jhtml   (657 words)

  
 Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill was born June 30, 1937 in Chicago and started playing jazz at age 13, copying the playing of Bud Powell, Thelonius Monk and Art Tatum.
Andrew recorded two more albums in 1980 and two in 1986 for Italy's Soul Note label before he returned to Blue Note for an album in 1989.
Andrew is widely considered a most important jazz pianist and composer.
otherminds.org /shtml/Hill.shtml   (297 words)

  
 ANDREW HILL - " Time-Lines" - Blue Note   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Even if composer/pianist Andrew Hill had never released any album after 1964's "Point Of Departure", he would still be a legendary figure in the annals of post-bop jazz.
In fact, Hill did release a series of masterpieces, such as "Black Fire", "Smokestack", "Judgement" and "Andrew !" in addition to unreleased material which is just now being issued to his lusting public.
Hill dealt with the cerebral, abstract and complex side of jazz.
www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=1201   (769 words)

  
 Andrew Hill: Coming Back Full Circle
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.
Hill’s reputation has, in any case, only grown and solidified in recent years; Blue Note’s 2003 release of his never-issued 1969 nonet session Passing Ships and its 2004 reissue of his 1968 quintet recording Dance With Death were greeted by the kind of attention and sales figures that accompany its current releases.
Hill was diagnosed with cancer in 2004, which forced a break in his performance schedule--and, remarkably, also helped lead to Hill’s return to the Blue Note label and his outstanding new CD Time Lines.
afgen.com /andrew_hill.html   (4364 words)

  
 NPR : Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz: Andrew Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Chicago native Andrew Hill was interested in music from childhood, and could be found singing and dancing on stage at a young age.
The year 1963 was a landmark for Hill, as it marked the beginning of his association with Blue Note records, which released many of his significant albums.
In 2000, Hill was awarded the Composer Critics' Choice Award by the Jazz Journalist Association and was among the first recipients of the Doris Duke Foundation award for jazz composers.
www.npr.org /programs/pianojazz/previousguests/fall2005/hill.html   (295 words)

  
 Andrew Hill: Mosaic Select 23: Andrew Hill - Solo
Hill has also been the subject of one of the most innovative tribute albums ever released, guitarist Nels Cline’s New Monastery: A View into the Music of Andrew Hill (Cryptogramophone, 2006).
While the intrepid Cline is never less than completely respectful of Hill’s compositional constructs, through an unorthodox instrumental ensemble and his own richly developed voice he manages to take compositions that are as much as four decades old and demonstrate their continued relevance today.
Still, Hill is no stranger to classical music, and while “Above Big Sur” references his jazz roots, it’s equally reflective of a certain abstract classicism, albeit delivered with a more forceful touch and resolved intent.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=24096   (900 words)

  
 Mosaic Select: Andrew Hill (MS-016)
The 2003 release of Andrew Hill's Passing Ships on Blue Note set off a torrent of requests for more unissued Hill material.
that i wish this wasnt it i know there is still many reissues of other hill albums to come, my only issue is the last session on disc 3 being mono but it still sounds pretty good diddy wah and monkash are slick but still classic andrew.
Hill's playing fits well into the more "out" sessions, and while a few of the more intense passages on disc three don't go much of anywhere, even these furtherest "out" sessions generally work well.
www.mosaicrecords.com /prodinfo.asp?number=MS-016   (1136 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Point of Departure: Music: Andrew Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Andrew Hill is one of the most innovative and enjoyablecomposers I've run across in jazz.
Andrew Hill is a musician who is never willing to "go through the motions" of playing jazz.
Andrew Hill and the musicians who collaborated on this CD produced something that is truly timeless.
www.amazon.com /Point-Departure-Andrew-Hill/dp/B00000IWVY   (1461 words)

  
 ludgatecircus.com - St. Andrew's Hill EC4
The sweeping S-bend of St. Andrew's Hill from Carter Lane down to Queen Victoria Street retains a sense of history.
Halfway down the west side of St. Andrew's Hill, by The Cockpit, is an alleyway named "Ireland Yard".
Andrew by the Wardrobe was the last and the cheapest of Wren's City churches, being a plain brick rectangular structure.
www.ludgatecircus.com /st_andrews_hill.htm   (484 words)

  
 VPA - Andrew P. Hill
Andrew came West later with his uncle and after arrival he attended the small College of Santa Clara, first as a high school student and then as a college freshman.
Hill's campaign led him to the State legislature in Sacramento and, after many months of negotiation, it came to a final vote.
Hill's paintings may be seen at the Orradre Library of the University of Santa Clara, at Andrew Hill High School, in the City Council Chambers, at the Historic Museum, but rarely in any San Jose art galleries.
www.vpa.org /hillhouse/aphill.html   (1158 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Andrew!!!: Music: Andrew Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
But Andrew, more than the other blue notes, is unmistakably the pianist's record, as he solos long and hard with the group staying mostly in support.
Andrew Hill is the most original pianist and composer in Jazz since Thelonious Monk and this recording, along with Andrew's "Point of Departure" is one of the greatest dates in Blue Note's catalogue during the 60's.
Most people have Point of departure as their favourite Hill record, probably because it features Dolphy and Tony Williams, but the compositions on this one (and Judgement too for that matter) are stronger IMO and it's great to hear the AMAZING John Gilmore outside of Sun Ra's band.
www.amazon.com /Andrew-Hill/dp/B000B66PN4   (1174 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Music: A Beautiful Day, Andrew Hill, CD
Andrew Hill followed his first Palmetto release, the widely acclaimed Dusk, with this remarkable live album, which was recorded during a three-night run at New York's Birdland in January 2002.
Trumpeter Ron Horton relieves Hill of the conducting burden by serving as musical director, managing an arcane system of cues and transitions and keeping all the players, quite literally, on the same page.
The band's peculiar methodology yields a wonderfully complex and layered sound, by turns strident and melodious, driven by the sturdy rhythmic backbone of bassist Scott Colley and drummer Nasheet Waits.
music.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?userid=vi3wlfkA9I&EAN=753957208523&ITM=9   (364 words)

  
 Andrew Hill - Jazz Composer and Pianist
William Patterson College, Andrew Hill Trio (John Hebert, Eric McPherson), 5:00 PM.
Andrew Hill was named composer of 2003 by the Jazz Journalist Association.
Andrew Hill's A Beautiful Day was choosen as The 10 Best Jazz CDs of 2002 by CDNow.
www.andrewhilljazz.com   (219 words)

  
 Baldwin artist Andrew Hill's Passing Shipsreleased on Blue Note
It's taken over three decades, but avant-garde jazz pianist Andrew Hill's Passing Ships was finally released by Blue Note Records on October 7.
The recording was considered "non-commercial" in 1969 when Hill completed the album, and Blue Note - then a struggling label - decided to shelve the project.
Even with a considerably endless catalogue of recordings behind him, Hill is no stranger to the jazz faithful of today.
www.gibson.com /whatsnew/pressrelease/2003/oct17a.html   (226 words)

  
 Andrew Hill - Jazz pianist/composer -Discography/Sessionography
Andrew appeared on two Blue Note sessions firstly with Joe Henderson, then Hank Mobley before leading his own date featuring Henderson on tenor, released as the album Black Fire.
In the album notes Andrew lamented the difficulties he was having with his music and career in the then current music environment.
Andrews is widely considered as a most important jazz pianist and composer.
members.tripod.com /go54321/ah/andrewhill.html   (1956 words)

  
 Andrew Hill at AllExperts
Hill took up piano at 13, and was encouraged by Earl Hines.
Hill also played on albums by Hutcherson (Dialogue, 1965), Henderson (Our Thing, 1963), Hank Mobley (No Room for Squares, 1963), and Sam Rivers (Involution, 1966).
Andrew Hill has continued to perform and record, working in the avant garde and modal jazz idioms.
en.allexperts.com /e/a/an/andrew_hill.htm   (421 words)

  
 441records: Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill (born June 30, 1937) is an American jazz pianist and composer.
Hill was an associate professor of music at Portland State University, established its successful Summer Jazz Intensive, and has performed, conducted workshops and/or attended residencies at Wesleyan University, University of michigan, University of Toronto, Harvard University and Bennington college.
This is the third release of Andrew Hill’s work for Test of Time records after Hommage and Nefertiti.
www.441records.com /artist.asp?id=30   (346 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.