Andrew Hill - Smoke Stack (1963-2006)

01.Smoke Stack
02.Day After, The
03.Walling Wall
04.Ode to Von
05.Not So
06.Verne
07.30 Pier Avenue
08.Smoke Stack - (alternate take)
09.Day After, The - (alternate take)
10.Ode to Von - (alternate take)
11.Not So - (alternate take).


Andrew Hill (piano)
Richard Davis, Eddie Khan (bass)
Roy Haynes (drums).
Recording information: Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (1963).

Andrew Hill - Time Lines

While recording for Blue Note in the 1960s, composer and pianist Andrew Hill released some of the most forward-thinking and meticulously constructed albums of the post-bop era. The intelligence and daring that characterized those albums still inhabits Hill's recordings, as 2006's TIME LINES attests.
Flanked by a fine quartet (a bassist, drummer, trumpeter, and the multi-talented Greg Tardy on tenor sax, clarinet, and bass clarinet), Hill still reels off witty, elliptical piano lines that bring together modal music and free jazz with strains of traditional bop structure. Packed with both fine compositions and playing all around, TIME LINES shows that Hill is still capable of making works of quiet, incisive brilliance.

Personnel: Andrew Hill (piano); Greg Tardy (clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone); Charles Tolliver (trumpet); John Hebert (upright bass); Eric McPherson (drums).

Recording information: Bennett Studios, Englewood, NJ (2005).