Andrew Hill News

Soundcheck's Critics' Week continues with a look at the most important albums in world music in a decade when the globe lost Malian bluesman Ali Farka Toure and gained Shakira.

FORMER NRL officials Grant Mayer and Andrew Hill were formally welcomed into the AFL fold when they represented the new Greater Western Sydney franchise at yesterday's club conference and player draft in Melbourne.

BOLD and brash, western Sydney has poached another well-respected rugby league administrator.

Historicity, jazz pianist Vijay Iyer's newest album, balances original compositions with covers of songs by innovators across many genres: Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere," Andrew Hill's "Smoke Stack," Stevie Wonder's "Big Brother," and M.I.A.'s "Galang" all appear on the record.

Charles Tolliver leads a modernist 16 piece big band that pushes the envelope of contemporary orchestral jazz sounds.

FAMILY and friends filled St John's Church, Ranmoor, in memory of Dr Colin Shawcross, who was killed in his home in Aston last January.

A HEARTBROKEN couple's wedding day party plans have gone up in smoke after the golf club where they were due to have their reception was destroyed in a blazing inferno.

Varmint is the sophomore follow up to Rolldown , the self-titled debut of vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz's quintet.

Jazz Vijay Iyer Trio, "Historicity" . The most exciting new jazz pianist to come along since Jason Moran and D. D. Jackson, Iyer, at the age of 38, is the great current pianist in the rhapsodic Andrew Hill wing of the great percussive piano tradition .

Pianist Paul Giallorenzo locates the jazz he makes with his quintet somewhere in the early 1960s, when post-bop was getting ready to explode into free jazz and its pioneers were rooted in swing, but thinking outward thoughts.

The Ron Horton/Tim Horner Little Big Band Play the Music of Andrew Hill The Puffin Cultural Forum Teaneck, New Jersey August 29, 2009 It was a warm, overcast evening, within a few short miles of the George Washington Bridge, in suburban Teaneck, that offered the rare opportunity to make the trek to the Puffin Cultural Forum to listen to some ...

VIJAY IYER'S piano trio sneaked up on listeners when they weren't really paying much attention to it.

John Hebert is the answer to the sad trivia question, Who is the last bassist to play with pianist Andrew Hill ? That final performance came on Mar.

Two farming brothers found themselves head to head against each other in a nail-biting climax in one of the top livestock competitions at the weekend's Mid Somerset Show.

August 8, 2009 from WGBH - Vijay Iyer might be a genius. He has a master's degree in physics, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Technology and the Arts from Berkeley.

August 8, 2009 from WGBH - Vijay Iyer might be a genius. He has a master's degree in physics, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Technology and the Arts from Berkeley.

The trio of Lake, Workman and Cyrille is, by now, seasoned in the right way. All three players are relative veterans and the depth of their shared musical understanding is obvious in everything they do.

Singing a variety of showtunes, the contest's 12 performers took to Bemus Point's Floating Stage in front of a packed crowd on the shore and in the water.

With tears streaming down their faces, elevator technician Andrew Hill's five daughters donned their dad's green Otis work shirts yesterday and held onto each other tightly as they bid an emotional farewell to the man who had been guiding them through their young lives until tragedy struck at the TD Centre last week.

Hill's wife , and his 5 daughters leave the Church after the funeral for Elevator worker Andrew Hill.