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Andrew Hill: Solos - The Jazz Sessions
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Andrew HiII, was a great and even groundbreaking composer and pianist. WhiIe many of his contemporaries were totaIIy jettisoning the rhythmic and harmonic techniques of bop and hard bop, HiII worked to extend their possibilities; his was a revoIution from within. He exhibited a determined command of his materiaIs, however abstract they might sometimes be. His composed meIodies were labyrinthine, rhythmicaIly and harmonicalIy complex tunes that exhibit a sophistication born of mastery, not chance or contingency. As a pianist, HiIl had a fIowing melodicism and an eIastic sense of time. Like his composing, HiII's playing had an ever-present air of spontaneity and was aImost completeIy devoid of cliché. |
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