[keys]

Just got the word

[brownie]

Very, very sad news :(
Even if not totally unexpected...

This post has been edited by brownie: 20 April 2007 - 10:38 AM

[zen archer]

wow i didn't know he was sick..very sad news

[mikeweil]

Terrible news - another original going to jazz heaven. R.I.P.

[sidewinder]

Deeply sad news - hope he is now in peace. I'm lost for words :( :(

That recent filmed performance now takes on very great significance.

[J.A.W.]

That is terrible news. I still regret missing his 2006 Amsterdam gig.

[.:.impossible]

Is this for real? I will listening to the droning dirge that is Smokestack today. RIP Andrew Hill. Thanks for the inspiration.

[JSngry]

brownie, on Apr 20 2007, 10:34 AM, said:

Very, very sad news :(
Even if not totally unexpected...

My sentiments exactly.

[Dan Gould]

Sad news, sorry to hear this especially for Tom. I know he'll take this news like I did when I heard Gene Harris had died. :(

[ghost of miles]

Oh man... I'd just pulled out the 1963-66 Mosaic a week or two ago & started listening to it for the nth time (first Mosaic I ever got). He really pulled me into a lot of music from that era, and I know he had a big impact on younger musicians such as Greg Osby and Frank Kimbrough. Knew he was ill, but this is still a big blow--time kind of stopped for a few moments when I saw the thread headline.

[donald byrd 4 EVA]

That is terrible news. My andrew hill albums will be in heavy rotation tonight

[Soul Stream]

Really a sad day. We're slowing losing the people who made that era what it was. I'll have to put on Dialouge...

[king ubu]

This is very, very sad news. Time stopped for a moment here, as well, when I read it. :(

I'll play some of his music again over the weekend.

[7/4]

Wow...RIP Andrew Hill. :(

[Peter Johnson]

Terrible news--a very sad day. RIP.

[JohnS]

Very sad news. One of the greats.

[montg]

The title of this thread sent chills through me. His music moves me, and teaches me, and has the transcendent qualities that characterize the deepest arts. Thank you for these gifts.

[Shawn]

What a loss, from a man that definitely had more art to share with the world. I'll be spinning Black Fire when I get home this evening.

[Niko]

and a sad day becomes much worse;

[jasonguthartz]

I just got this message:

Quote

Please note the following, from Howard Mandel in NYC…

I've been asked by composer and pianist Andrew Hill's family to announce to the press that he died at 4 a.m. today, April 20, 2007, several years after being diagnosed with lung cancer. He was 75 years old and lived in Jersey City, NJ.

Hill, born June 30, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois (contrary to some previously published places and dates dates), had a lengthy international career as performer and recording artist, and educator (at Portland State University; he also gave master classes at New York University, and elsewhere; he leaves a voluminous and highly varied recorded legacy, dating from the 1950s (So In Love) to his 2006 trio album Time Lines (Blue Note), named to many critics' top ten lists. Hill is survived by his wife Joanne Robinson Hill, and a neice, nephew and cousin, besides a devoted coterie of friends, typically creative artists and perceptive fans.

As announced on April 11, Andrew Hill will receive an honorary doctorate of music degree from Berklee College of Music at commencement May 12

[CJ Shearn]

damn. RIP Andrew. What a great, original player and innovator. "Dialogue" gets a spin later.

[bertrand]

I had a chance to get to know Andrew a little bit over the past few years. He made the world a better place with his music. His courage in the face of his terrible illness is an inspiration.

I am very surprised to find out he was older than always has been published.

Goodbye, Andrew.

Bertrand.

This post has been edited by bertrand: 20 April 2007 - 11:24 AM

[sidewinder]

bertrand, on Apr 20 2007, 11:24 AM, said:

I am very surprised to find out he was older than always has been published.

I had a chat with him a few years ago and he seemed much younger - certainly in spirit. A delightful guy - very grateful to have got to meet him.

[Aggie87]

Rest in Peace and thank you for the music you've shared with us.

I happen to have "Eternal Spirit" with me here at work, so will play that today. Fitting title.

[brownie]

Hill was a heavy smoker...

Damn all those cigarettes :excited:

[porcy62]

That's one of the times I wish there were a heaven, the man deserves it.

[Claude Schlouch]

Very sad news.

RIP Andrew!

Claude

[LarryCurleyMoe]

DAMN! What a DRAG! :angry: Andrew's music has always struck me as genuinely intriguing as it was beautiful! "Point of Departure" really blew me away upon hearing back in my teens...just catching up on "Time Lines" now...and wondering how he was doing. One of my all time favorite musicians...

R.I.P. Andrew!

[White Lightning]

I'm so sad. MR. Hill was an ispiration to many, including myself. We're so fortunate to have his music with us forever. RIP

[Guy]

Sad. He left a wonderful legacy.

Guy