Andrew Hill - Mosaic Select 16 (3 CD, 2005/FLAC)

 

With the release of these sessions, recorded between 1967 and '70, every piece of music from Andrew Hill's Blue Note recordings has been issued. This outstanding, unique pianist-composer is heard in a variety of contexts, and only six of the 31 selections on this set have ever been out in any form. Their common denominator is Andrew's brilliant improvisations and unique compositions.

The 1970 sextet with trumpeter Charles Tolliver and saxophonists Pat Patrick and Bennie Maupin features six challenging pieces played with drive and swing. Some of the best writing in the set comes from two 1969 dates that pair Hill's quartet (Maupin, Ron Carter and Mickey Roker or Carlos Garnett, Richard Davis and Freddie Waits) with a fully integrated string quartet. Three tunes from each of these projects were previously issued, but now the entire sessions have been newly remixed from the original eight-track tapes for release.

A February 1967 session with saxophonists Robin Kenyatta and Sam Rivers features Hill's recorded debut at the organ on two selections, an instrument to which he returns for two pieces on his May 1967 trio date with Ron Carter and Teddy Robinson. From October 1967 comes a powerful septet date with Woody Shaw, Kenyatta, Rivers and Howard Johnson in the front line

Blue Note Works 4000-4100 series [4161-4175]

 

...The Modern Jazz Series continued into the 1970s with the LPs listed below. Many were issued in both monaural versions (BLP series) and stereo versions (BST 84000 series).  Most of the 4000 series have been reissued by Toshiba-EMI in Japan ("Blue Note Works 4000" series); the catalog numbers are TOCJ-4###

BN.4161- George Braith‎- 1963- Soul Stream
BN.4162- Stanley Turrentine- 1964- Hustlin' {RVG Remaster}
BN.4164- Jimmy Smith- 1963- Prayer Meetin' {RVG Remaster}
BN.4165- Jackie McLean- 1963- Destination... Out {RVG Remaster}
BN.4166- Joe Henderson- 1964- In 'n Out {RVG Remaster}
BN.4167- Andrew Hill- 1964- Point of Departure {RVG Remaster}
BN.4168- Freddie Roach- 1964- Brown Sugar
BN.4169- Lee Morgan- 1964- Search For The New Land {RVG Remaster}
BN.4170- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers- 1964- Free For All {RVG Remaster}
BN.4171- George Braith- 1964- Extension
BN.4172- Freddie Hubbard- 1964- Breaking Point {RVG Remaster}
BN.4173- Wayne Shorter- 1964- Night Dreamer {RVG Remaster}
BN.4174- Big John Patton- 1964- The Way I Feel
BN.4175- Herbie Hancock- 1964- Empyrean Isles {RVG Remaster}

Blue Note Works 4000-4100 series [4151-4160]

 

...The Modern Jazz Series continued into the 1970s with the LPs listed below. Many were issued in both monaural versions (BLP series) and stereo versions (BST 84000 series).  Most of the 4000 series have been reissued by Toshiba-EMI in Japan ("Blue Note Works 4000" series); the catalog numbers are TOCJ-4###

BN.4151- Andrew Hill- 1963- Black Fire {RVG Remaster}
BN.4152- Joe Henderson- 1963- Our Thing {RVG Remaster}
BN.4153- Grachan Moncur III- 1963- Evolution {RVG Remaster}
BN.4154- Grant Green- 1963- Idle Moments {RVG Remaster}
BN.4155- The Three Sounds- 1962- Black Orchid (with bonuses)
BN.4156- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers- 1961- The Freedom Rider {RVG Remaster}
BN.4157- Lee Morgan- 1963- The Sidewinder {RVG Remaster}
BN.4158- Freddie Roach- 1963- Good Move!
BN.4159- Andrew Hill- 1964- Judgment! {RVG Remaster}
BN.4160- Andrew Hill- 1963- Smokestack {RVG Remaster}

Andrew Hill discography [1963-2007]

Andrew Hill (June 30, 1931 – April 20, 2007) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

Hill is recognized as one of the most important innovators of jazz piano in the 1960s. His most-lauded work was recorded for Blue Note Records, spanning nearly a decade and a dozen albums.

 

Andrew Hill-(1963)-Black Fire {RVG Edition}

Andrew Hill-(1963)-Smoke Stack

Andrew Hill-(1964)-Andrew!!!

Andrew Hill-(1964)-Compulsion

Andrew Hill-(1964)-Judgment! {Blue Note-Japan}

Andrew Hill-(1964)-Point of Departure

Andrew Hill-(1965)-Pax

Andrew Hill-(1966)-Change {BN Connoisseur}

Andrew Hill-(1968)-Dance With Death

Andrew Hill-(1968)-Grass Roots

Andrew Hill-(1969)-Lift Every Voice

Andrew Hill-(1969)-Passing Ships

Andrew Hill-(1975)-Blue Black

Andrew Hill-(1975)-Divine Revelation

Andrew Hill-(1975)-One for One

Andrew Hill-(1975)-Spiral

Andrew Hill-(1976)-Nefertiti

Andrew Hill-(1980)-Strange Serenade

Andrew Hill-(1981)-Eternal Spirit

Andrew Hill-(1987)-Shades

Andrew Hill-(1987)-Verona Rag

Andrew Hill-(1990)-But Not Farewell

Andrew Hill-(1999)-Dusk

Andrew Hill-(2002)-A Beautiful Day

Andrew Hill-(2003)-The Day the World Stood Still

Andrew Hill-(2005)-Mosaic Select [3 CD]

Andrew Hill-(2006)-Time Lines

Andrew Hill-(2007)-Andrew Hill-Solo (3 CD, Mosaic)

Andrew Hill - Solo : Mosaic Select 23 (3 CD, 2006/FLAC)

 Mosaic Select presents a limited edition containing all of the solo piano recordings made by Andrew Hill at the Fantasy studios in Berkeley, CA during August and October 1978. Only a fraction of this material -- the first two titles on the third disc -- had ever seen the light of day prior to this collection's release in the spring of 2007. Having operated throughout the '60s as an innovative composer, pianist and bandleader, Hill spent the first half of the following decade exercising his creativity by composing and instructing at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY, performing internationally, and making records for Freedom, East Wind and Steeplechase. In 1976 he moved to San Francisco with his wife, composer and organist Laverne Hill. The move was motivated by the fact that Laverne had recently learned that she was afflicted with an incurable ailment that would eventually deprive her of her life. Needing more peace and quiet than San Francisco offered, the Hills settled in Pittsburg, a small town east of Oakland. The music on this compilation is very personal, peaceful, ruminative and intimate. It was recorded during a time when Andrew Hill was performing regularly not too far from home, usually as a soloist in spaces better suited for the presentation of chamber music rather than in night clubs. "From California with Love" and "Reverend Du Bop" appeared on Artists House LP AH9, "From California with Love" was released in 1979. All of the rest of this music -- more than two hours of additional solo piano improvisations -- languished in Hawaii until the people behind Mosaic unearthed it and Michael Cuscuna produced this beautiful three-disc set. Readied for release during the summer of 2006, it was made available to the public in a limited edition only weeks after the passing of Andrew Hill in April 2007.

 

Disc I

01. Moonlit Monterey (16:03)

02. 17 Mile Drive (12:22)

03. Gone With The Wind (6:07)

04. I Remember Clifford (4:30)

05. Moonlit Monterey (alt take) (9:01)

Disc II

01. California Tinge (11:46)

02. Napa Valley Twilight (10:13)

03. Above Big Sur (15:59)

04. An Afternoon In Berkeley (12:15)

05. California Tinge (first version) (24:38)

Disc III

01. From California With Love (20:03)

02. Reverend Du Bop (18:43)

03. Pastoral Pittsburg (11:01)

04. Pittsburg Impasse (5:55)

Andrew Hill - The Complete Blue Note Andrew Hill Sessions (1963-66) [7CD, 1995]

 Andrew Hill was one of the greatest pianists of the '60s, but he never quite received his due. Hill was a skillful, cerebral musician that consciously positioned his music between hard bop and free. He was at his peak in the mid-'60s, as his playing and composing continued to explore new territory. All of his seminal recordings for Blue Note between 1963 and 1966 are collected on the limited-edition, seven-disc box set The Complete Blue Note Andrew Hill Sessions (1963-66). During those three years, he recorded with an astonishing array of talents, including Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, Sam Rivers, Joe Henderson, Roy Haynes, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Richard Davis, Joe Chambers, John Gilmore, and Kenny Dorham. The box features 15 alternate takes, including ten previously unreleased cuts and a composition that has never been released. The sheer scope of the set means that it's only of interest to serious jazz collectors, but it proves that Hill was one of the most adventurous and rewarding pianists of the '60s.