Andrew Hill

Genres:	Jazz
Descriptive "tags":	jazz • piano • free jazz • avant-garde jazz • avant-garde
Decades Active:	1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s

Biography

30 June 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 20 April 2007, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. Port Au Prince, Haiti, is usually given as Hill’s birthplace, but he actually hailed from Chicago. He studied composition privately with Paul Hindemith and Bill Russo, and played accordion and tap-danced on the streets where Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines heard him. In his teens he was in Paul Williams’ R&B band, played with Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Gene Ammons, Von Freeman, Johnny Griffin, Malachi Favors and John Gilmore, and became virtually Chicago’s ‘house’ pianist for visiting artists. Having spent some months in New York as Dinah Washington’s accompanist Hill relocated there in 1960 whilst working with Johnny Hartman. From 1962-63 he worked in Los Angeles with Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Jimmy Woode among others. In 1963, he returned to New York to work with Joe Henderson. During the 60s he made a number of excellent...

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