The pianist Andrew Hill’s 1968 album Andrew!!! is the most recent entry in Blue Notice Data’ Tone Poet sequence. This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Version was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Grey from the unique analog grasp tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket.
Andrew!!! is the the latter of 5 exceptional albums the pianist made in a torrent of creativity in an eight month interval between 1963 and 64. It options saxophonist John Gilmore (Solar Ra Arkestra), vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Joe Chambers performing six of Hill’s compositions.
Hill, who grew up in Chicago, started taking part in piano on the age of 13. He was mentored by pianist Earl Hines and jazz composer Invoice Russo, launched Hill to the famend classical composer Paul Hindemith, with whom Hill studied from 1950-1952. As a teen, Hill performed with jazz musicians passing by way of the Midwest, together with Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. In 1959, he recorded his first album, So in Love with the Sound of Andrew Hill, for the Warwick label.
Hill moved to New York in 1961 to collaborate with the singer Dinah Washington. He recorded a number of albums for Blue Notice from 1963 to 1969, as each a pacesetter and a sideman participant. He acquired his doctorate from Colgate College and served as the varsity’s composer in residence from 1970-1972. Hill relocated to the West Coast within the ’70s and taught at public colleges and prisons in California. He established a Summer season Jazz Intensive at Portland State College, the place he additionally taught. Within the meantime, he continued to carry out and document all through the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s.
Hill returned to the New York space within the ’90s and entered again into the jazz highlight because of a sequence of performances and new recordings. His 1999 album Nightfall was a important success. Within the early 2000s, Blue Notice reissued a number of albums that Hill recorded within the ’60s, together with 1969’s Passing Ships. Hill died in 2007 from lung most cancers.
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