The Best of Andrew Hill: The Blue Note Years

[mikeweil]

Mike wants two different covers...

[Rooster_Ties]

Just bringing up another Andrew Hill thread from the past. I'm realizing that I never got to my picks for all of the 67-70 material.

Anybody have any suggestions for what to pick from the "Lift Every Voice" sessions????

[jazzbo]

This is a nice photo from what I would guess would be the second period (???)

[jazzbo]

And here he is being the only person at one of his shows which isn't funny, but it is, as sparsely attended as his shows are. . . .

[jazzbo]

I'd choose "Two Lullabies". . . not sure why, I just dig it most I guess.

[vibes]

It would have to be "Lift Every Voice" or "Hey Hey" for me. Love this album...

[Chuck Nessa]

Roost, you have taken your "idolitry" too far. I will stop looking at your AH threads.

Sorry.

[.:.impossible]

I hate to say it, but I was thinking the same thing.

[Rooster_Ties]

Fine, whatever...

[Chuck Nessa]

I was out of line - I should have sent a PM instead of posting here. Apologies to all concerned.

[.:.impossible]

I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings. I apologize. It just seems strange the direction this thread had taken. No offense to anyone. If you don't have anything nice to say...

[Rooster_Ties]

Strange direction, indeed.

I fully admit to probably having gone past the point of over-enthusiasm about Hill, particularly back in the Summer, and Fall of 2003 (when this thread - and several more like it were started -- and when most of the posting activity in them occurred).

I saw Hill perform live for the first time in July of 2003, and it was only in the few months before that, that I really started to feel like I was starting to 'get' the Hill Mosaic. Then I came into a bunch of unreleased live recordings of Hill in the Fall too - and that only fed the fire. And I started trying to pick up as much of his post BN material around that time too.

These boards are a creative outlet for me, and sometimes I like to be a guy who's got that crazy look in his eye. Hopefully I'm not that guy about everything around here, but I certainly was about Hill about six months ago – guilty as charged.

I'm not listening to Hill as fanatically as I did six months ago, and I’d appreciate Chuck's and impossible's participation in my old Andrew Hill threads, to the extent they feel they have something to contribute.

I'm really not as crazy as I come across in these threads, and if anything - I'm probably guilty of trying to stir up some interest in an artist whose music I've come to enjoy more than I had previously ever expected to.

Edited April 8, 2004 by Rooster_Ties

[AfricaBrass]

I wouldn't feel bad if I were you R/T.

What's wrong with being passionate about this music? I may not participate in your AH threads (just because I'm not that familiar with track names - i just throw CDs on the player), but I've always enjoyed your enthusiasm.

If Alfred Lion wasn't passionate about jazz, there'd have been no Blue Note. Loving this music is a good thing, it keeps it alive.

Life sucks without passion.

[Rooster_Ties]

...stir up some interest in an artist whose music I've come to enjoy more than I had previously ever expected to.

By the way, this is probably my most accurate and restrained way of describing my interest in Hill's music.

Edited April 8, 2004 by Rooster_Ties