Browse by Artist: HILL, ANDREW

Artist:	HILL, ANDREW
Title:	Point Of Departure
Label:	BLUE NOTE
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	BLP 4167LP

Exact repro reissue of pianist Andrew Hill's fourth album for Blue Note, originally released in 1964. Hill has been described as "the most deft avant-garde artist in jazz" (PopMatters). Featuring Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Eric Dolphy (alto sax, flute & bass clarinet), Joe Henderson (tenor sax), Richard Davis (bass) and Anthony Williams (drums). "The pieces on Point Of Departure don't flow and develop, and they don't have a lot of built-in contrast; there's no crescendo or denouement in the expected places, and they don't make a journey, traveling from a home key to an away key and back. They tend to be organized into two units of the same number of measures or even, in the case of 'Flight 19,' as one constantly repeating unit. What Hill devised, though, were ingenious ways to work with static harmony. The tunes have intriguingly dark melodies, but on much of the material, when the players find the right scale to work from, they can just let it rip through their solo without having to worry about chord changes." -- Ben Ratliff

Artist:	HILL, ANDREW
Title:	Lift Every Voice
Label:	HEAVENLY SWEETNESS (FRANCE)
Format:	LP
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	HS 025LP

Vinyl-only release. Part of the Blue Note reissue series from the Heavenly Sweetness label, this is Andrew Hill's Lift Every Voice, originally released on Blue Note in 1969. Featuring Woody Shaw (trumpet), Carlos Garnett (tenor sax), Andrew Hill (piano), Richard Davis (bass), Freddie Waits (drums) and singers Lawrence Marshall, LaReine LaMar, Gail E. Nelson, Joan Johnson, Benjamin Franklin Carter, Antenett Goodman Ray and Ron Steward. A rare and beautiful Andrew Hill session, and one of the classic Blue Note entries into the "jazz and voices" sound that the label pioneered with Donald Byrd and Eddie Gale. "Hill leads a core jazz group that includes Woody Shaw, Carlos Garnett, Richard Davis, and Freddie Waits -- and the group is backed by a vocal ensemble with a very spiritual vibe. The sound is a lot more hip than the Donald Byrd & Voices albums, and the playing of the core jazz group is very very soulful -- along the lines of Hill's Grass Roots album, which was also from the same period. The record's similar to the Max Roach/Billy Harper vocal work around the same time, and titles include 'Ghetto Lights,' 'Hey Hey,' 'Two Lullabies,' and 'Love Chant.' A very unique album for Andrew Hill!" --Dusty Groove; Pressed on super heavy 180 gram vinyl in a high quality "jazz" sleeve.

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