Dusk (Andrew Hill album)
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2000 |
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CD |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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running time |
58:55 |
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Studio (s) |
Maggie's Farm, Bucks County , Pennsylvania |
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Dusk is a jazz album by Andrew Hill , recorded at Maggie's Farm studio in Bucks County , Pennsylvania on September 15 and October 27, 1999 and released on Palmetto Records .
The music of the album
After almost ten years of abstinence from the studio, the Dusk session was intended as a kind of documentation of the point-of-departure sextet. Andrew Hill had put this band together in 1998 for a summer festival in New York's Knitting Factory ; in terms of instrumentation, it referred to Hill's classic Blue Note album of the same name from 1964, on which Kenny Dorham , Eric Dolphy , Joe Henderson , Richard Davis and Tony Williams had participated at the time. With his musicians Ron Horton , Greg Tardy , Marty Ehrlich , Scott Colley and Billy Drummond , Hill a. a. in the New York Jazz Standard and Birdland ; In mid-September 1999 he went to a studio in Pennsylvania with the band . Hill did not try to recapitulate the old album, but had written eight new compositions, a cycle of songs whose title track was inspired by the 1923 work Cane of the Harlem Renaissance , which Jean Toomer had written. This begins with a call from the young girl Karintha:
- "Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon,
- O cant you see it, oh cant you see it,
- Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon,
- ... When the sun is down “.
Dusk is built on a repeating bass line , combined with unison passages of the wind instruments. In the extended pieces Sept and 15/8 , Hill and his musicians explore more complex meters . Tough Love and Focus (recorded in October 1999) are unaccompanied piano solos. Relatively short titles are ML , a jazz waltz , and Ball Square , an uptempo -Swing number - named after a club in Boston , where Hill had written the piece - with an interlude that associations with the music of Charles Mingus evokes. TC is a tribute to saxophonist Thomas Chapin , who died in 1998 , with Tardy and Ehrlich in a bass clarinet duo.
review
David R. Adler awarded the album 4½ (out of five) stars in Allmusic and commented on the recordings: "With Dusk , Andrew Hill makes it clear that his uncompromising musical vision is intact, undiluted and perhaps more ambitious than ever before"
Richard Cook and Brian Morton rated the album with 3 (out of four) stars and described it - in relation to Hill's position in modern jazz - as "a little disappointing"; Hill sounds "rusty and a bit [too] formulaic." Sept and 15/8 sound like "exercises in meters" without developing emotional power. However, the authors highlight the title track Dusk and the heartfelt tribute to Thomas Chapin, TC , as successful .
In his review of the album for jazz.com, Ted Gioia described it as "one of the best examples of American music at the end of the century". He particularly emphasized the title track, the mood of which was “gloomy and overcast”. Dusk is " Andrew Hill at his best , and a perfect realization of the unique talent of an artist whose formative experiences range from Earl Hines to Paul Hindemith ."
List of titles
- Andrew Hill's Point of Departure Sextet - Dusk (Palmetto PM 2057)
- Dusk - 12:05
- ML - 4:10
- Ball Square - 4:25
- Tough Love - 7:19
- Sept - 12:27
- TC - 7:54
- 15/8 - 10:31
- Focus - 0:52
- All compositions are by Andrew Hill.
Web links
- Review of the album Dusk by David R. Adler at Allmusic (English). Retrieved June 27, 2011.
Remarks
- ↑ The use of bass clarinets is not mentioned in the liner notes.
- ↑ In the original: "With Dusk, Andrew Hill makes it plain that his uncompromising musical vision is intact, undiluted, and perhaps more advanced than ever."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Web presence of the studio with discography and pictures ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Andrew Hill biography at Jazz.com ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Howard Mandel, Liner Notes
- ↑ a b Review of David R. Adler's Dusk album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved June 27, 2011.
- ^ Cook & Morton, Penguin Guide to Jazz, 6th Edition. 2003, p. 719 f.
- ↑ Ted Goia, review of the album in Jazz.com 2008 ( memento of the original from October 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
