Andrew Hill Point of Departure

Andrew Hill - Point of Departure (1965) [Japanese Edition 2003]  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 9, 2023
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure (1965) [Japanese Edition 2003]

Andrew Hill - Point of Departure (1965) [Japanese Edition 2003]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 348 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 135 MB | Covers - 28 MB
Genre: Jazz, Avant-garde Jazz, Post-Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note/Toshiba-EMI (TOCJ-9364)

Pianist and composer Andrew Hill is perhaps known more for this date than any other in his catalog - and with good reason. Hill's complex compositions straddled many lines in the early to mid-1960s and crossed over many. Point of Departure, with its all-star lineup (even then), took jazz and wrote a new book on it, excluding nothing. With Eric Dolphy and Joe Henderson on saxophones (Dolphy also played clarinet, bass clarinet, and flute), Richard Davis on bass, Tony Williams on drums, and Kenny Dorham on trumpet, this was a cast created for a jazz fire dance. From the opening moments of "Refuge," with its complex minor mode intro that moves headlong via Hill's large, open chords that flat sevenths, ninths, and even 11ths in their striding to move through the mode, into a wellspring of angular hard bop and minor-key blues…
Andrew Hill - Point Of Departure (1964/2015) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/192kHz]

Andrew Hill - Point Of Departure (1964/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 39:52 minutes | 1,65 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 39:52 minutes | 889 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

"Point Of Departure" is not only one of the greatest jazz recordings of 1964, but of all time. The stellar lineup (Eric Dolphy, Kenny Dorham, Joe Henderson, Richard Davis and a teen aged Tony Williams) was given a set of challenging compositions by the brilliant pianist and composer Andrew Hill. This group created the album known as Point of Departure, an acknowledged modern day classic and one of Blue Notes most extraordinary recordings. Andrew Hill was a quiet revolutionary, but he was every bit as original in his conception as Thelonious Monk. Hill extended, twisted and turned hard bop into his own very fresh and personal music. Like Eric Dolphy, Hill spawned few imitators. His conception was so pure, and so unique, both as a player and as an arranger-composer that nearly a half century later, Point Of Departure remains a brilliant touchstone of modern jazz.

Andrew Hill - Pax [Recorded 1965] (2006)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 29, 2023
Andrew Hill - Pax [Recorded 1965] (2006)

Andrew Hill - Pax [Recorded 1965] (2006)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 304 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 117 MB | Covers - 27 MB
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (0946 3 58296 2 4)

Pax is one of those seminal Andrew Hill albums that sat locked in Blue Note's vaults for a decade before the first five cuts here were finally released as part of a double-LP package in 1975 entitled One for One. The final pair, recorded at the same time, didn't see the light of day until they appeared on the limited-edition Mosaic Select Blue Note recordings a decade after that. The personnel on this disc is a dream band: Hill with Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Richard Davis, and Joe Chambers. All of the these players but Hubbard had played with Hill before, and the telepathy is simply synchronistic. The opening cut, "Eris," is a sprawling blues clocking in at nearly 11 minutes. Full of Hill's knotty harmonics, and truly fiery playing by Hill and Hubbard, it's one of Hill's finest moments on record from the mid-'60s…

Andrew Hill - Andrew!!! (1968) [Reissue 2005]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Aug. 14, 2020
Andrew Hill - Andrew!!! (1968) [Reissue 2005]

Andrew Hill - Andrew!!! (1968) [Reissue 2005]
EAC Rip | APE (image+.cue+log) - 330 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 131 MB | Covers (10 MB) included
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop, Avant-garde Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (0946 3 11438 2 3)

Anyone familiar with Andrew Hill's music will find the cover to Andrew!!! a little bizarre, to say the least. Hill was one of the most intense and cerebral musicians on Blue Note's roster, incorporating avant-garde and modal techniques into his adventurous post-bop. The cover to Andrew!!! apparently is an attempt to humanize Hill - it's a soft-focus close-up of a smiling Andrew Hill, who looks more like a teen idol than a serious jazz musician, and the first-name title is adorned with no less than three exclamation marks and a subtitle, "The Music of Andrew Hill," which suggests that it's an album of romantic, easy-listening standards. It's not. Andrew!!! is just as adventurous and challenging as any of his other albums, which is to Hill's credit…

Andrew Hill - Compulsion (1967) [RVG Edition 2007]  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 18, 2020
Andrew Hill - Compulsion (1967) [RVG Edition 2007]

Andrew Hill - Compulsion (1967) [RVG Edition 2007]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 272 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 117 MB | Covers (20 MB) included
Genre: Avant-garde Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (0946 3 74230 2 8)

Compulsion continues Andrew Hill's progression, finding the pianist writing more complex compositions and delving even further into the avant-garde. Working with a large, percussion-heavy band featuring Freddie Hubbard (trumpet, flugelhorn), John Gilmore (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet), Cecil McBee (bass), Joe Chambers (drums), Renaud Simmons (conga), Nadi Qamar (percussion), and, for one track, Richard Davis (bass), Hill has created one of his most challenging dates. The extra percussion is largely used for texture, as is the dueling bass on "Premonition," and that's one of the reasons why the record is so interesting - it's a provocative, occasionally unsettling set of shifting tonal colors. Hill's compositions often seem more like sketches and blueprints than full-fledged songs…
Andrew Hill - Compulsion (1965) {Blue Note Japan SHM-CD UCCQ-5118 rel 2015} (24-192 remaster)

Andrew Hill - Compulsion (1965) {Blue Note Japan SHM-CD UCCQ-5118 rel 2015} (24-192 remaster)
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 253 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 97 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (png) -> 150 Mb | 5% repair rar | 24bit 192kHz remaster
© 1965, 2015 Universal Japan / Blue Note | BN 75th The Masterworks | UCCQ-5118
Jazz / Post Bop / Avant-Garde Jazz / Piano

Features SHM-CD format and the latest 24bit 192kHz remastering. One of the most dynamic albums that Andrew Hill ever cut for Blue Note – a record of long tracks, played by a largeish group who seem perfectly suited to Hill's most creative musical ideas! There's an approach here that almost predates some of the more righteous soul jazz ensemble sides of the 70s – as Hill's piano leads a octet that features Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, John Gilmore on tenor and bass clarinet, Cecil McBee and Richard Davis on basses, Joe Chambers on drums, and Nedi Quamar and Renaud Simmons on percussion. The percussionists roll out with quite a bit of presence in the set – not so much as on some of the Art Blakey percussion sides for Blue Note, but more with a pronounced sense of "bottom" that you might not always hear from Hill – an earthy, sometimes organic way of riffing that then allows freer solo work from the horns and piano on the top!

Marty Ehrlich - Trio Exaltation (2018)  Music

Posted by Domestos at Sept. 4, 2018
Marty Ehrlich - Trio Exaltation (2018)

Marty Ehrlich - Trio Exaltation (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) ~ 299.54 Mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps ~ 132.29 Mb | 55:58 | Covers
Free Jazz | Country: USA | Label: Clean Feed Records - CF475

Marty Ehrlich has released his first trio recording in many years, entitled “Trio Exaltation.” For this new trio concept, Ehrlich has called on bassist John Hébert and drummer Nasheet Waits. All three were members together in the Andrew Hill Point of Departure Sextet, a group which brought Andrew Hill’s music strongly before the public in the last decade of Hill’s life.

Brendan Croker - Redneck State Of The Art (1995)  Music

Posted by Designol at July 7, 2022
Brendan Croker - Redneck State Of The Art (1995)

Brendan Croker - Redneck State Of The Art (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 274 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 129 Mb | Scans included
Country-Rock, Blues-Rock, Country | Label: CNR Music | # 2101356 | Time: 00:46:40

Probably best known as a member of the Notting Hillbillies, Brendan Croker was also a well-respected singer/songwriter and session guitarist both before and after his involvement with that band. Drawing on strong folk, blues, and country roots, Yorkshireman Croker brought a strong, Woody Guthrie-ish lyrical outlook to his musical palette, and was equally at home with Van Morrison-style blues or American country music of any era. In fact, his deep knowledge of and affection for American roots music, coupled with his fine singing and guitar playing, at one point gave rise to Croker being hailed as "the British Ry Cooder".

Robert Craft - Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex, Les Noces (2004)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 5, 2018
Robert Craft - Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex, Les Noces (2004)

Robert Craft - Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex, Les Noces (2004)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:16:29 | 381 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.557499

This Naxos disc is a coupling of two recordings originally issued by Koch. Both the recordings were part of Robert Craft's continuation of the complete Stravinsky edition he had begun on MusicMasters. Craft's second Oedipus Rex is less than entirely compelling. Martyn Hill is a virile Oedipus and Jennifer Lane is a noble Jocasta, but Craft is a bit too restrained in his rhetoric and a tad too reserved in his dramatics.