HILL

HILL (née HILLE), ANDREW. Jazz pianist (30 June 1937 in Port au Prince, Haiti). His family settled in Chicago, Illinois, in 1941. As a child he sang in public (boy soprano), danced, and played accordion. Later he played piano and baritone saxophone. He began playing professionally in 1949, before he entered high school, and during the next few years performed with various groups, including Paul Williams's rhythm n blues group and Dinah Washington (1954), among others. His early...