''New Monastery'' (subtitled ''A View Into the Music of Andrew Hill'') is an album by American guitarist

Nels Cline Nels Courtney Cline (born January 4, 1956) is an American guitarist and composer. He has been the guitarist for the band Wilco since 2004. In the 1980s he played jazz, often in collaboration with his twin brother Alex, a percussionist. He has w ...

performing compositions by Andrew Hill which was released in September 2006 on the Cryptogramophone label.

Reception

The

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review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars out of 5, stating "Hill's work does not suffer for its interpretations by Cline and company; it breathes in a new context, one that understands his own. This is a fine and important date and necessary listening for those who care about the composer or are just coming to him, or about Cline and his own development. Essential listening". Writing for

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, John Kelman stated "With his sextet of highly flexible players, Cline has fashioned an homage that clearly references its source, while at the same time feeling completely within Cline's own musical universe. Hill will no doubt be proud".

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' Bill Milkowski noted "While this tribute is obviously done with great reverence for Andrew Hill’s oeuvre, Cline doesn’t hesitate to lob hand grenades into the proceedings from time to time. I expect nothing less from the guy who successfully tackled John Coltrane’s ''Interstellar Space''".milkowski, B.
JazzTimes review
December 2006

Track listing

''All compositions by Andrew Hill'' # "McNeil Island / Pumpkin" - 6:20 # "Not Sa No Sa" - 8:55 # "No Doubt / 11/8 / Dance With Death" - 23:32 # "Yokada Yokada / The Rumproller" - 4:48 # "Dedication" - 8:03 # "Reconciliation / New Monastery" - 10:30 # "Compulsion" - 11:09

Personnel

– guitar, effects * Bobby Bradford - cornet *

Ben Goldberg Ben Goldberg is an American clarinet player and composer. Career In the early 1990s, Ben Goldberg performed alongside electric bassist Dan Seamans and percussionist Kenny Wollesen as the New Klezmer Trio. They went on to produce three albums an ...

- clarinet, contra-alto clarinet *

Andrea Parkins Andrea Parkins is an American composer, sound artist, performer and improvisational musician based in New York. She is known for her inventive explorations on the electric accordion, generative sound processing, and arrangements of objects and s ...

- electric accordion, effects *Devin Hoff - contrabass *

Scott Amendola Scott Amendola (born February 6, 1969) is an American drummer from the San Francisco Bay Area. His styles include jazz, blues, groove, and rock.Andrew Gilbert"Exploring New Degrees In Drumming" ''sfgate.com'', October 3, 2004. Amendola is origi ...

- drums, percussion *

Alex Cline Alex Cline (born January 4, 1956) is an American jazz drummer. Biography Born in Los Angeles, California, Cline began playing drums with his twin brother, guitarist Nels Cline, at the age of 11. Their first band was called Homogenized Goo and in ...

- percussion (tracks 5 & 7)

References

{{Authority control 2006 albums Nels Cline albums Cryptogramophone Records albums