Shows at 7:30pm and 9:30pm nightly
This special two–night engagement celebrates the life and music of Andrew Hill (1931–2007) celebrating the pianist/composer’s 85th birthday on June 30, 2016, with music by a host of Hill disciples and former sidemen including Vijay Iyer, Frank Kimbrough, and Nasheet Waits. “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…As a pianist, Hill had a flowing melodicism and an elastic sense of time. Like his composing, Hill's playing had an ever–present air of spontaneity and was almost completely devoid of cliché.” (AllMusic)