A nice article/listening session with Andrew Hill from the NYT.
Andrew Hill: One Man’s Lifelong Search for the Melody in Rhythm – New York Times
As a jazz composer, Andrew Hill is as original as they come. From the start he has had only a modest following. He arrived in New York in 1960, to join Roland Kirk’s group. When he started making his own records for Blue Note a few years later, he didn’t make a great public splash, as Ornette Coleman had in 1959, or even keep a working band to establish a presence in the clubs. Instead, he played the college circuit, taught and applied for arts grants. At one point, in a 1966 interview in Down Beat, he encouraged each of his listeners to send him a dollar.
Hill was hip to micropayments in 1966. I wonder if it worked any better for him then, than it does now?