Andrew Hill Honored at Andrew Hill High School

[BeBop]

From the San Jose Metro:

OUT IN THE BADLANDS of east San Jo, at the colossal concrete intersection of Senter and Capitol Expressway, sits Andrew Hill High School, named after one of the all-time legends of local lore, Andrew Putnam Hill. Mr. Hill was the guy who saved the California Redwoods in what is now Big Basin National Park. To make a long story short, circa 1900, loggers were hell-bent on destroying the trees, and Hill led a statewide effort to preserve them. It's safe to say there would be no redwoods in Big Basin today if not for Andrew Hill. The loggers would have cut them all down.

However, he was not the only Andrew Hill. Another chap with that same name, the legendary jazz pianist, composer and ensemble leader Andrew Hill, died just a few years ago. So when Michael Winsatt, the International Baccalaureate (IB) Advisor at Andrew Hill High School, decided to build his own black-box theater on campus, he dissed Mr. Putnam Hill and named the venue after Andrew Hill the pianist instead. It's called Smokestack Theater, after Hill's classic 1963 album of the same name.

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Edited March 27, 2010 by BeBop

[AndrewHill]

Smokestack Theater....nice!

[clifford_thornton]

Huh.

[AndrewHill]

Huh.

"...Advisor at Andrew Hill High School, decided to build his own black-box theater on campus, he dissed Mr. Putnam Hill and named the venue after Andrew Hill the pianist instead. It's called Smokestack Theater, after Hill's classic 1963 album of the same name."

[Free For All]

So is the bus stop "Point of Departure"?

he dissed Mr. Putnam Hill

Judgement!

[JSngry]

I shudder to think what a fire in the black-box theater would be called...