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Andrew Hill 85th Birthday Celebration: The Music Of Andrew Hill at Jazz Standard

Courtesy of Michael Ricci | Posted on August 18, 2016

Where

Jazz Standard
116 East 27th Street
New York, NY
Map
212-576-2232

When

Wed, September 21, 2016
7:30 pm

At Door

$30

Musicians

About

This special two–night engagement celebrates the life and music of Andrew Hill (1931–2007) celebrating what would have been the pianist/composer’s 85th year, with music by a host of Hill disciples and former sidemen. “While many of his contemporaries were totally jettisoning the rhythmic and harmonic techniques of bop and hard bop, Hill worked to extend their possibilities; his was a revolution from within…As a pianist, Hill had a flowing melodicism and an elastic sense of time. Like his composing, Hill's playing had an ever–present air of spontaneity and was almost completely devoid of cliché.” (AllMusic)...

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