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Andrew Hill

BAND RANKINGS:

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All Time

of 150,046

2,243
Decades
- 1960s
  
  of 431
  
  249
- 1970s
  
  of 328
  
  0
- 1980s
  
  of 1,418
  
  0
- 1990s
  
  of 7,254
  
  0
- 2000s
  
  of 10,573
  
  8,290
Genres
- Jazz
  
  of 1,947
  
  960
- Miscellaneous
  
  of 2,546
  
  1,237
- Pop
  
  of 13,671
  
  6,158

CAREER SPAN:

Decade

Album Score

# Albums

1960s

2.1634

1970s

0.0000

1980s

0.0000

1990s

0.0000

2000s

0.5350

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.

Overall Band Score: Andrew Hill is ranked overall as 2.0475 out of 4 stars

2.0475

Andrew Hill Biography

Formed:

June 1937

Disbanded:

April 2007

Genres:

Jazz, Pop, Miscellaneous

Labels:

Allegro Corporation, Blue Note, Blue Note Records, Capitol/emi/sbk/chrysalis, Freedon/da Music, Fresh Sounds Records/rock Bott, Mosaic Select, Msi Music, Palmetto Records/red, Soul Note Records, Steeplechase/stateside, Stunt/stateside, Test Of Time/wildcat

History:

Andrew Hill was a great and even groundbreaking composer and pianist, yet the relatively circumscribed scale of his innovations might have originally caused him to get lost in the shuffle of the '60s free jazz revolution. While many of his contemporaries were totally jettisoning the rhythmic and harmonic techniques of bop and hard bop, Hill worked to extend their possibilities; his was a revolution from within. Much of the most compelling '60s jazz was nearly aleatoric; Hill , on the other ...more

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