Black Fire (Remaster) (CD)

Andrew Hill is a highly individual pianist and composer who is often compared with Thelonious Monk and Cecil Taylor, if only by virtue of his uniqueness and forward-looking compositional style. In his teens, he played with Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, and others, and effectively became Chicago's house pianist for visiting artists. During the 1960s, after moving to New York, he made a number of excellent albums for Blue Note, under his own name and with Bobby Hutcherson and Joe Henderson. His later Blue Note sessions display a dense, turbulent, intensely gripping musical approach. He also enjoyed a resurgence of interest in 2003 with the long-delayed release of the large-group PASSING SHIPS which was originally recorded in 1969. Andrew Hill died in 2007.

• Category:  Music  »  Jazz  »  Piano
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• Release Date: July 13, 2004
• Label: Blue Note Records (USA)
• UPC: 724359650128
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106575994
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #54574 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #4329 in Jazz (See Top 100 Jazz Bestsellers)
• #618 in Piano (See Top 100 Piano Bestsellers)

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Personnel: Andrew Hill (piano); Joe Henderson (tenor saxophone); Richard Davis (bass instrument); Roy Haynes (drums).

Liner Note Authors: A.B. Spellman; Bob Blumenthal.

Recording information: Van Gelder Studios, Englewood, NJ (11/08/1963).

Pianist Andrew Hill's most notable contribution to jazz may be his ability to creatively combine bebop with the avant-garde. On 1963's BLACK FIRE, the oft-misunderstood jazz composer creates a tonal landscape that is at once steeped in bop, yet ambitiously searching for new harmonic and structural vistas.

Joined by legendary drummer Roy Haynes, tenor great Joe Henderson, and bassist Richard Davis, Hill performs a set of nine originals that seek to push the musical envelope. Each musician explores melody, harmony, and rhythm in ways they normally didn't, particularly Henderson, who expertly adapts his style and sound to the tricky compositions of Hill. Every member of the quartet gets a chance to stretch on this album, and there is more "soloing equality" on BLACK FIRE than on most late-'50s or early-'60s records. Indeed, this was the dawning of a new age in jazz, and Hill was one of this era's greatest pioneers. Standout tracks include the moody and rubato "McNeil Island" and the knotty "Pumpkin."

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