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A Beautiful Day is a live album by American jazz pianist Andrew Hill, recorded in 2002 at Birdland in New York City and released on the Palmetto label. [1]
Back in 2002, pianist/composer Andrew Hill’s large-ensemble album A Beautiful Day was a revelation, a landmark live recording from Birdland NYC that unveiled a brilliant and under-documented aspect of the hard-bop stalwart’s vast artistic vision.
3 days ago · A Beautiful Day, Revisited is an elegantly produced and packaged two LP reissue of music that Palmetto once presented on CD. Recorded during three nights at Birdland in January, the recording proves to be both an excellent example of Andrew Hill’s unusual creative methods, particularly the wonderful results he managed to get with ensembles.
Marty Ehrlich has spent over 40 years at the center of New York’s creative improvised music scene. His musical career began in St. Louis, Missouri, performing and recording with the Human Arts Ensemble in the early 1970s while still in high school, before attending the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, under the tutelage of George ...
Jazz album: “A Beautiful Day, Revisited” by Andrew Hill, released in 2024 on Palmetto Records. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2002 CD release of "A Beautiful Day" on Discogs.
Hill formed a new Point of Departure Sextet for the Knitting Factory's 1998 Texaco Jazz Festival. The band included saxophonists Marty Ehrlich and Greg Tardy, trumpeter Ron Horton, bassist Scott Colley, and drummer Billy Drummond. The band went on to play New York club engagements to much acclaim.
