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21-462: In 1991 a significant number of M-Base participants labelled as "M-Base Collective" recorded the CD Anatomy of a Groove . Most of them previously contributed to CDs by alto saxophonist Steve Coleman, whose creativity has been a pivotal factor in that movement, although he refused to be called its leader or founder. Coleman and his friend Greg Osby, who plays alto saxophone in a related style, together led

42-624: A 1963 interview with A. B. Spellman . Powell was an even greater influence, but Hill thought that his music was a dead end: "If you stay with Bud too much, you'll always sound like him, even if you're doing something he never did." Hill referred to Tatum as the epitome of "all modern piano playing". Source: Compilations With Walt Dickerson With Roland Kirk With Jimmy Woods With Hank Mobley With Joe Henderson With Bobby Hutcherson With Russel Baba With Reggie Workman With Greg Osby Free improvisation Too Many Requests If you report this error to

63-519: A bandleader on hold to teach at Peabody Music Institute. Greg Osby signed with Blue Note Records in 1990 and developed a specific balancing act between an enhanced reverence to tradition and maintaining his new direction. In 2008, Osby launched his own small label. Steve Coleman has developed his music further in accordance with the M-Base concept. In the 1990s his CDs were released by the major label BMG . Thereafter he became practically an underground artist in

84-562: A brother, Robert, who was a singer and classical violin player. Hill took up the piano at the age of thirteen, and was encouraged by Earl Hines . As a child, he attended the University of Chicago Experimental School . He was referred by jazz composer Bill Russo to Paul Hindemith , with whom he studied informally until 1952. While a teenager, he performed in rhythm and blues bands and with touring jazz musicians, including Charlie Parker and Miles Davis . Hill recalls some of his experience as

105-419: A capacity for absorption that exceeds that of most people that I know […] He has his own compositional and improvisational method that is peerless in my opinion. He's my favourite tenor saxophone player on the contemporary scene." Clarinettist and composer Don Byron called Steve Coleman "an exceptional personality of American music history." Antecedents to M-Base were identified by jazz critic Bill Milkowski as

126-612: A range of excellent drummers) have made substantial creative contributions to his music and his influence is to be found in several musical fields – both in terms of music technique and of the music's meaning. Pianist Vijay Iyer (who was chosen as "Jazz Musician of the Year 2010" by the Jazz Journalists Association ) said, "It's hard to overstate Steve [Coleman's] influence. He's affected more than one generation, as much as anyone since John Coltrane. It's not just that you can connect

147-471: A youngster, during a 1964 interview with Leonard Feather : "I started out in music as a boy soprano, singing and playing the accordion , and tap dancing. I had a little act and made quite a few of the talent shows around town from 1943 until 1947. I won turkeys at two Thanksgiving parties at the Regal Theatre ," parties sponsored by the newspaper Chicago Defender , which Hill coincidentally used to sell on

168-471: The Miles Davis -led band featured on recordings like 1975's Agharta ; he noted the combination of Sonny Fortune 's acerbic saxophone lines atop the syncopated grooves performed by the rhythm section of drummer Al Foster , bassist Michael Henderson , and rhythm guitarist Reggie Lucas . The ideas of the M-Base concept were largely incompatible with the requirements of music business. Most participants of

189-482: The University of Michigan , the University of Toronto , Harvard University , Bennington College and other schools. Hill's album Dusk was selected best album of 2001 by both DownBeat and JazzTimes ; and in 2003, Hill received the Jazzpar Prize . Hill's earlier work also received renewed attention as a result of the belated release of several unissued sessions recorded in the 1960s for Blue Note, notably

210-492: The CD Jump World by singer Cassandra Wilson. Pianist Andrew Hill said about Greg Osby: "He has an incredible sense of rhythm and harmonic accuracy, and picks the right notes with a precision that isn't common to people with his technical versatility. He's developed into a fully rounded artist who can play various styles extremely well – better than most." Greg Osby said about Gary Thomas : "He's extremely intelligent and has

231-470: The M-Base movement turned to more conventional music. Cassandra Wilson's blues- and folk-influenced music has been fairly suitable for an adaption to the taste of a larger audience. Wilson has been signed to Blue Note Records since 1993. Though two of Gary Thomas' recordings were highly rated by DownBeat he only had a contract with a small European company and his performance opportunities were virtually limited to Europe. Since 1997, he has put his career as

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252-415: The U.S. again, in that his music was only available as imports, distributed by a small French label. In 2007 John Zorn 's small label Tzadik Records released a solo CD of Coleman. In 2010 the small advanced label Pi Recordings began to release Steve Coleman's recordings. Although the musical line initially called "M-Base" became more than ever focused on Steve Coleman, a number of younger musicians (e.g.

273-602: The ambitious large-group date Passing Ships . In 2004, he appeared on SOLOS: The Jazz Sessions . As a consequence of his renewed prominence, a new Blue Note album titled Time Lines was released on February 21, 2006. His final public performance was on March 29, 2007, at Trinity Church in New York City. It was while working at the Lighthouse Café, in Hermosa Beach that he met his future wife, Laverne Gillette, at

294-663: The dots by playing seven or 11 beats. What sits behind his influence is this global perspective on music and life. He has a point of view of what he does and why he does it." Steve Coleman explained the substantial elements of the concept as: The M-Base concept reminds of the creative energy of the bebop originators, their loose collective, and also of their musical goals. The concept does not include "neo-classical jazz", free music without structures, fusion music , music which isn't mainly improvised, or music shaped with respect to commercial aspects. Andrew Hill (jazz musician) Andrew Hill (June 30, 1931 – April 20, 2007)

315-532: The five pieces on Bobby Hutcherson's Dialogue album. Hill rarely worked as a sideman after the 1960s, preferring to play his own compositions. This may have limited his public exposure. He later taught in California and held a tenure-track faculty appointment at Portland State University from 1989 to 1996. While at PSU, he established a Summer Jazz Intensive program, in addition to performing, conducting workshops and attending residencies at Wesleyan University ,

336-579: The group Strata Institute, which recorded two CDs (the second with tenor saxophonist Von Freeman as a further leader). Under the name of Osby, a number of CDs with a specific character have been released starting in 1987, which also coined the perception of "M-Base" jazz. Tenor saxophonist and flutist Gary Thomas admittedly didn't take part in the M-Base initiative, but joined them, and there were similarities in his way of playing. He can be heard on recordings of Coleman and Osby, and his own CDs are also labelled as "M-Base-style". All three saxophonists contributed to

357-505: The last years of his life. He died at his home in Jersey City, New Jersey. In May 2007, he became the first person to receive a posthumous honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music . Hill's main influences were pianists Thelonious Monk , Bud Powell and Art Tatum . "Monk's like Ravel and Debussy to me, in that he put a lot of personality into his playing [...] it's the personality of music which makes it, finally," he said in

378-523: The streets. In 1950, Hill learned his first blues changes on the piano from the saxophonist Pat Patrick and in 1953, he played his first professional job as a musician, with Paul Williams ' band. "At that time", he recalls, "I was playing baritone sax as well as piano." During the next few years, the piano gigs brought him into contact with many musicians, some of whom became relevant influences: Joe Segal and Barry Harris , among others. In 1961, after travelling as an accompanist for Dinah Washington ,

399-611: The time an organist at the Red Carpet. They married in 1963 and moved to New York. Laverne died following a long illness in California , where the couple had settled, in 1989. He married dancer/educator Joanne Robinson Hill in Portland in 1992. They moved to New York City in 1995. From 2000, Hill and his wife lived in Jersey City, New Jersey . Andrew Hill suffered from lung cancer during

420-842: The young pianist settled in New York City in 1961, where he worked for Johnny Hartman and Al Hibbler , then briefly moved to Los Angeles County , where he worked with Roland Kirk 's quartet and at the jazz club Lighthouse Café , in Hermosa Beach . Hill first recorded as a sideman in 1954, but his reputation was made by his Blue Note recordings as leader from 1963 to 1970, which featured several other important post-bop musicians including Joe Chambers , Richard Davis , Eric Dolphy , Bobby Hutcherson , Joe Henderson , Freddie Hubbard , Elvin Jones , Woody Shaw , Tony Williams , and John Gilmore . Hill also played on albums by Henderson, Hutcherson, and Hank Mobley . His compositions accounted for three of

441-456: Was an American jazz pianist and composer. Jazz critic John Fordham described Hill as a "uniquely gifted composer, pianist and educator" although "his status remained largely inside knowledge in the jazz world for most of his career." Hill recorded for Blue Note Records for nearly a decade, producing a dozen albums. Hill was born in Chicago , Illinois , to William and Hattie Hill. He had

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