[NewMusic] Fwd: [JPL] Andrew Hill, 1931-2007 RIP

[Damon Smith]

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>> From Howard Mandel :
>
>
> I've been asked by composer and pianist Andrew Hill's family to 
> announce to
> the press that he died at 4 a.m. today, April 20, 2007, several years 
> after
> being diagnosed with lung cancer. He was 75 years old and lived in 
> Jersey
> City, NJ.
>
>
> Hill, born June 30, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois (contrary to some 
> previously
> published places and dates dates), had a lengthy international career 
> as
> performer and recording artist, and educator (at Portland State 
> University;
> he also gave master classes at New York University, and elsewhere; he 
> leaves
> a voluminous and highly varied recorded legacy, dating from the 1950s 
> (So In
> Love) to his 2006? trio album Time Lines (Blue Note), named to many 
> critics'
> top ten lists. Hill is survived by his wife Joanne Robinson Hill, and a
> neice, nephew and cousin, besides a devoted coterie of friends, 
> typically
> creative artists and perceptive fans.?
>
>
> As announced on April 11, Andrew Hill will receive an honorary 
> doctorate of
> music degree from Berklee College of Music at commencement May 12; 
> other
> honorees "for their achievements in the world of music, and for their
> enduring contributions to American and international culture"?this 
> year are
> Gloria and Emilio Estefan, and The Edge; this distinction has 
> perviously
> been extended to Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Quincy 
> Jones
> and Ahmet Ertegun, among a few others. A press release from Berklee is
> attached, or can be obtained.
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