{"title":"Andrew Hill","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAndrew Hill arrived at Blue Note in November 1963 and recorded more music in the following eighteen months than almost any other musician on the label's roster. Between \"Black Fire\" and \"Point of Departure\", across sessions with Joe Henderson, Eric Dolphy, Kenny Dorham, Bobby Hutcherson, Elvin Jones, and Tony Williams, Hill established a compositional language that had no obvious precedent: harmonically dense, rhythmically elastic, structurally through-composed in ways that still left his sidemen room to move. Alfred Lion, who signed him, called Hill his last great protégé. \"Point of Departure\" (March 1964) remains the centrepiece of that period, a quintet date with Dolphy and Henderson that holds its shape across decades of revisiting. Hill largely stepped back from recording through the 1970s and 1980s, surfacing on Arista-Freedom, Black Saint, and Soul Note before returning to Blue Note for two albums in 1989 and 1990. His late-career renaissance, anchored by \"Dusk\" (Palmetto, 2000) and \"Time Lines\" (Blue Note, 2006), confirmed that the composing mind had never stopped working.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"andrew-hill-point-of-departure-2022-blue-note-classic-vinyl-series-vinyl-lp","title":"Andrew Hill - Point of Departure (2022 Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Hill - \u003cem\u003ePoint of Departure\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 2022 Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series 180g (4535330, Kevin Gray\/Cohearent Audio, Optimal Media GmbH)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlfred Lion first encountered Andrew Hill through Kenny Dorham, who had brought Hill along to a Joe Henderson Blue Note date in 1963. Lion was struck by the volume and originality of Hill's own compositions — he signed him on the spot and recorded four albums in five months. Hill's fourth for Blue Note was \u003cem\u003ePoint of Departure\u003c\/em\u003e, a sextet date recorded March 21, 1964 at Van Gelder Studio. Alfred Lion produced; Rudy Van Gelder engineered; Reid Miles designed the cover; Francis Wolff photographed it; Nat Hentoff wrote the liner notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ensemble covered an unusual range of musical personality. Kenny Dorham had been a hard bop trumpet fixture since the bebop era. Joe Henderson, whose \u003cem\u003ePage One\u003c\/em\u003e Blue Note debut had been recorded the previous year, was already one of the most sought-after tenors of the period. Eric Dolphy played alto saxophone, bass clarinet and flute throughout — his approach the most openly free of any of the three horn players. Richard Davis on bass and Tony Williams on drums provided a rhythm section that could hold together harmonically complex material without conventional chord structures. Hill told Hentoff: \"Because of Tony Williams being on the date, I was certainly freer rhythmically. And the way I set up the tunes, it was more possible for the jazz musicians to get away from chord patterns and work around tonal centers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll five tracks are Hill originals. Dolphy died on June 29, 1964, three months after the session. The album was held and not released until April 1965. Kevin Gray mastered this Classic Vinyl edition at Cohearent Audio from the original analog master tapes; Optimal pressed it on 180g vinyl in Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Note","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43437597884475,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/602445353309.jpg?v=1776729848"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/andrew-hill.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}