Andrew Hill on BBC3

[ejp626]

Today (Friday), BBC3 had two shows as a tribute to Andrew Hill. Here is a good starting point to locate them: BBC Jazz They will be available through Listen Again for 1 week.

Jazz Library is kind of strange, since this time around they mostly play snippets of 12 of Andrew's compositions. Normally, they play the entire track. So that's a little annoying, but the commentator's analysis of the tracks is pretty decent. He does a close reading of Black Fire and Spectrum, and I learned a few things. There is also a 2 minute interview with Andrew about his early Blue Note days. And UK-based trumpeter Byron Wallen offers up some thoughts on working with Andrew as well. The show lasts 1 hour.

I think the real find, however, is the Jazz on 3 show which is 90 minutes of Andrew playing live for the BBC, as well as at the Bath International Music Festival. I'm about to listen to it now.

Edited September 1, 2007 by ejp626

[sidewinder]

Today (Friday), BBC3 had two shows as a tribute to Andrew Hill. Here is a good starting point to locate them: BBC Jazz They will be available through Listen Again for 1 week.

Jazz Library is kind of strange, since this time around they mostly play snippets of 12 of Andrew's compositions. Normally, they play the entire track. So that's a little annoying, but the commentator's analysis of the tracks is pretty decent. He does a close reading of Black Fire and Spectrum, and I learned a few things. There is also a 2 minute interview with Andrew about his early Blue Note days. And UK-based trumpeter Byron Wallen offers up some thoughts on working with Andrew as well. The show lasts 1 hour.

I think the real find, however, is the Jazz on 3 show which is 90 minutes of Andrew playing live for the BBC, as well as at the Bath International Music Festival. I'm about to listen to it now.

Fantastic, thanks for the heads up. I was at that Bath Festival concert and I got to chat with Andrew after the performance. The only copy of the broadcast I have is on cassette so it will be nice to upgrade. The band has Ron Horton and Nasheet Waits as well as a stellar lineup of young UK musicians. No doubt someone will make it available on 'dime' shortly.

[alocispepraluger102]

aloc has a beautiful live recording of andrew hill with the bbc group from several years ago(1.5 hours long).

thanks for the reminder.