A couple from Andrew Hill courtesy of destination-out.com, a great place to find some tracks you’ve never heard or paid enough attention to before.
Compulsion & Premonition
AH, piano; Freddie Hubbard, trumpet; John Gilmore, tenor sax, bass clarinet; Cecil McBee, bass; Richard Davis, bass (on “Premonitionâ€); Joe Chambers, drums; Nadi Qamar, percussion; Renaud Simmons, conga.
Hill recorded a series of albums for Blue Note in the mid-Sixties that cemented his reputation, at least among those that heard them; 1964’s Point of Departure is probably the central text (and has more or less remained in print for the duration), but others like Smoke Stack, Andrew!, Black Fire, and Judgment! (designer Reid! Miles! dug himself some exclamation points) are also crucial documents, and most of these have been reissued in recent years. Despite this steady stream (among them Pax, also from ‘65, just out last month; a Mosaic Selects 3-CD collection compiling Hill’s late Sixties work, plus a planned three-disc solo set from the Seventies), Compulsion, Hill’s free-est, most out-there session of the time, remains stubbornly unavailable on CD. The four tracks were available on an earlier, “complete†Moasic box set on Hill, which is long out of print.
Did you miss the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal this year? Want the inside scoop on what went down, and who was burnin’? Andrey Henkin and John Kelman joined forces over at AAJ to bring you there journal covering all 12 days of the festival. Highlights, let downs, and traffic reports. The next best thing to being there. Check it out at 
The Chet Baker Jazz Festival commemorates the legacy of Chet Baker and the newly formed Chet Baker Foundation. This FREE festival begins just before the Labour Day week-end at Yonge/Dundas Square with two special Concert Gala Fundraisers at the Music Hall on the Danforth. The festival will be an annual celebration which will spread to Europe in the next year.
The concerts are the culmination of a partnership between the City of Mississauga and renowned jazz artist Peter Appleyard. The shows take place in Civic Square and start at 8 p.m.