andrew hill

this week's improvisation is rendering and i was pootling around on the web where i found out that andrew hill died today... this morning...

very sad, genius piano player he was, in the offcenter not quite free still jazz world...

had i known i would have mentioned him in the improvisation, which i recorded against a drone a few hours ago...

i brought my copy of harmonic experience into work on tuesday to read a quote from it (which i didn't get round to in the lesson) and i was talking with y1mk1n about it afterwards and it struck me that maybe after all this time now would be the right time to start the singing practise it asks for...

i bought it years ago, back when me & P were together, she spilt nightlight candle wax over one of the pages the night she moved into the squat near waterlow park, a huge wind was blowing and her room was right at the top of this immense block... i was scared the roof would come in or something...

i'd just received the book through the post, $45... i'd met with D the D shortly before then and he'd told me about it...

anyway i read through th first section fairly quickly and skipped the exercises but at the end of that section the writer advices not to proceed until doing the singing exercises, so i held off, and held off...

over two years later and i might get round to doing it...

we just had a brief power cut which set my rendering improvisation back an hour or so, so not there yet...

bless andrew hill, what have i got to hand by him...?

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