Andrew Hill RIP (?)

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Posted on another board. Can anyone confirm?

― Hurting 2, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

Not coming up on his site yet or in google news search as of this post

― Hurting 2, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

This is the post, unsourced:

ndrew Hill died at 4 a.m. today, April 20, 2007, several years after being diagnosed with lung cancer. He was 75 years old and lived in Jersey City, NJ.

Hill, born June 30, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois (contrary to some previously published places and dates dates), had a lengthy international career as performer and recording artist, and educator (at Portland State University; he also gave master classes at New York University, and elsewhere; he leaves a voluminous and highly varied recorded legacy, dating from the 1950s (So In Love) to his 2006 trio album Time Lines (Blue Note), named to many critics' top ten lists. Hill is survived by his wife Joanne Robinson Hill, and a neice, nephew and cousin, besides a devoted coterie of friends, typically creative artists and perceptive fans.

Funeral and tribute information has not been determined.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Noooooooooo!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't even know he had been living in Jersey City

― Hurting 2, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

I cannot approve of this. I never had a chance to see him play.

― Oilyrags, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

If true, that's too bad. I was never hugely into him but it seemed like he was still really vital, gigging and recording with a lot of young dudes lately.

― Jordan, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, he seemed to be enjoying a nice resurgence. I guess it's better to die while that's happening than to die obscure though.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Go buy the reissue of Compulsion that came out last week or the week before. Do it now. Your life will be vastly improved.

― unperson, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

The Blue Note Records Family is very saddened to announce the passing of the great pianist and composer Andrew Hill. Andrew passed away early this morning, April 20, 2007, after battling lung cancer for several years. He was 75 years old.

Andrew was considered “the next Thelonious Monk” by Blue Note founder Alfred Lion, and over a 44 year association with the label, beginning with his debut in 1963, he made what will forever stand as some of the most groundbreaking recordings in Jazz history, including such classics as Point of Departure, Black Fire, Judgment!, Passing Ships, and Time Lines, his triumphant 2006 return to the label that was named the #1 album of the year by Ben Ratliff of The New York Times, who described it as “a master’s record, quiet, daring and magnificent.”

Our hearts go out to his wife Joanne, and the countless musicians, friends and fans that his music and spirit touched over the course of his remarkable life.

Sincerely,

The Blue Note Records Family

― strongohulkington, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

I was just gonna post that.

― unperson, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

― ^@^, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

what a miserable week it's been

― félix pié, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

I was supposed to see him about two weeks ago in Vancouver, but the concert was cancelled "for health reasons". This is awful.

― Dr. Superman, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

it seemed like he was still really vital, gigging and recording with a lot of young dudes lately.
I was lucky I got to see him a while back at that place on Canal and Varick, with Gene Jackson and Lonnie Plaxico in the rhythm section. RIP.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

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― félix pié, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

I guess those two cats I named ain't too young anymore, but they were young at the time.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

pax / smokestack / compulsion / judgement: c/d?

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

I need to get Pax, Dance Of Death, Passing Ships and that 3CD Mosaic box that just came out recently. The other three you asked about: all classic, particularly the last two. (No horns on Smoke Stack, but two bassists.)

― unperson, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

damn.

I recently picked up the reissue of that really early session of his (maybe his first?), with Malachi Favors on bass. Even then, he displayed a real well compositional sense.

I never got to see him play.

― Stormy Davis, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

Goddamn

― Andy K, Friday, 20 April 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

bummer. I wasn't much familiar with his music until Nels Cline put out New Monastery: A View Into the Music of Andrew Hill last year, perhaps I should get better acquainted with the original recordings now.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 20 April 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

They were playing all Andrew Hill on wkcr 89.9 earlier, and I assume they still are.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 20 April 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

I love KCR. I have my alarm clock set to it so I wake up to Daybreak Express. A few weeks ago I had it set really early so I could get up to catch an airplane and when it came on they were in the middle of playing Maggot Brain. Apologies for derailling the thread for a moment.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

I usually avoid in the morning due to Phil Schlepp

― Hurting 2, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

As someone who counts himself as a sort-of well-informed dabbler in jazz, I can confirm that my life, anyway, has been greatly enriched by becoming an Andrew Hill fan over the past five years or so. I'm also lucky to have heard him play here in Seattle last fall in one of the most mysterious, headspinning concerts I've ever heard. I've been away from the computer all day and night until now at Pop Conference, but I heard the news late Friday afternoon, and have been saddened ever since. (In a cheap irony, I also bought a copy of the CD reissue of Dance With Death earlier in the day.) I knew he'd been ill and that I was inordinately lucky to hear him last year, and I know he had a long, deeply fulfilling and important life, but I can't help feeling that this sucks. I want, in the most basic sense of the word, a sentence to end this on, but it's escaping me.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 21 April 2007 09:19 (eighteen years ago)

I can confirm that my life, anyway, has been greatly enriched by becoming an Andrew Hill fan over the past five years or so.

co-sign and RIP

― m coleman, Saturday, 21 April 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

[quote](In a cheap irony, I also bought a copy of the CD reissue of Dance With Death earlier in the day.)[/i]

I bought it last night.

― unperson, Saturday, 21 April 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

smoke stack is otherworldly.

i was lucky enough to see hill solo about three years ago. it was stunning in a way i hadn't experienced before or since.

― Lawrence the Looter, Saturday, 21 April 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

He played a lunchtime trio date at a church in NYC two or three weeks ago, and I was gonna go, but then like an asshole I didn't.

― unperson, Saturday, 21 April 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

I wanted to go see that lunchtime gig and posted it on this board, I think! I don't remember why I didn't go. Yesterday I when I got home I read about another free downtown lunchtime show I should have gone to as well. Maybe we need a thread for that stuff.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 21 April 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

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