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June 9, 2007
“Andrew!”
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This week on Night Lights it’s “Andrew!” as we mark the passing of jazz great Andrew Hill with a program featuring his early and mid-1960s Blue Note recordings. Hill, who died at the age of 75 on April 20, 2007, was a highly original pianist and composer who recorded a string of stunning albums for Blue Note in the short span of eight months, constructing his own musical universe, much like Blue Note predecessors Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols. His compositions, which employed asymmetry, repeated phrases, and artful use of space, were challenging to play, but at Blue Note he found musicians who could rise to the level of his inventiveness. We’ll hear music from the LP many considered Hill’s masterpiece, Point of Departure, as well as Black Fire, Judgment, Andrew!, and Bobby Hutcherson’s album Dialogue. “Andrew!” airs Saturday, June 9 at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU. You can read (and hear) more about Andrew Hill here, and you can also see a video of his last performance at Trinity Church on March 29, 2007. You can read appreciations of Hill’s music by bassist and musical colleague Richard Davis and Los Angeles jazz DJ and musician Kellen Yamanaka.