The great composer and pianist Andrew Hill (Chicago 1937) is one of the most original jazz musicians of the last quarter of the twentieth century. His academic training was mixed with performances from local - had a brief meeting with the pianist Earl Hines - until he made his professional debut in New York in 1961 with singer Dinah Washington and the following year recorded by the extraordinary multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk .

Signed to Blue Note, always willing to admit payroll composers and musicians with talent and a debut record to its name in 1963 with the album titled "Black Fire," an album of extraordinary quality who guessed the success that would come later. With

Blue Note was recorded regularly until 1969, leaving for the legendary blue stamp a series of discs and similar extraordinary quality, noting however recorded in 1964 with the trumpeter Kenny Dorham, flautist, Eric Dolphy, bassist Richard Davis, saxophonist Joe Henderson and drummer entitled: "Point of Aperture" ·

After a long hiatus of five years without going into the recording studio, takes to combine work with teaching composition and performances in clubs and premises. He received his doctorate from Colgate University and resumed studio recordings for the label in 1974 and travels several Steple Chase home record in the eighties - Freedom, Soul Note, etc-where leaves show their technique and quality. Hailed as one of the greatest pianist of the post-bop period, Andrew Hill, was a musician of totally innovative aesthetic and intellectual in the early sixties. His death in April 2007 was an irreparable loss to modern jazz.