Jazz Articles about Bill Dixon

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Bill Dixon: Envoi

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 3, 2011

Poco più di un anno fa, il 16 giugno 2010, moriva Bill Dixon. Circa un anno dopo la Victo ha edito questo CD che riporta l'ultimo concerto del maestro, registrato il 22 maggio 2010 (quindi meno di un mese prima della sua morte) al 26° Festival International de Musique Actuelle di Victoriaville. Oltre a trovarci di fronte ad un documento storico imperdibile, rimaniamo colpiti dall'elevata qualità creativa della musica, dalla sua densità e motivazione, dall'intreccio formicolante dell'interplay. Si tratta di ...

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Quando arte e jazz s'incontrano: Gaetano Fiore

by Libero Farnè
February 17, 2011

Molto spesso quando negli ultimi cinquant'anni si è cercata un'analogia espressiva fra arte e jazz, in particolare quando si è fatto ricorso all'arte per illustrare il jazz, si è individuata una relazione immediata, quasi consustanziale, fra l'improvvisazione afroamericana e le varie esperienze artistiche che dagli anni Cinquanta in poi si sono sviluppate sotto il segno della gestualità e dell'informale, dall'Action Painting americana alle più materiche tendenze europee. Si pensi per esempio all'uso che dell'arte, quella con l'A maiuscola ...

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Bill Dixon: Excerpts from Vade Mecum

by AAJ Staff
January 29, 2010

Introduction by AAJ Contributor Clifford Allen.

It is rare in the climate of this music to be presented with a view of an artist that is truly multifaceted, even though the collected works of most artists operate at a number of levels and, on occasion, in a number of media. Bill Dixon is probably best known as a trumpeter and composer; he is also a visual artist, professor (Bennington College, 1968-1996), and has created an expansive body of written material, ...

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Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra

by John Sharpe
December 25, 2009

Back in 2007 Firehouse 12 Records announced itself in an audacious declaration of intent with release of Anthony Braxton's 9 CD+DVD box set Nine Compositions 2006. Now in a move of similar ambition the label has gone someway to redressing the imbalance in composer/trumpeter Bill Dixon's recorded output, with this handsome two CD + DVD set which is undoubtedly one of the events of the year. It follows hot on the heels of two other important orchestral works in a ...

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Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra

by Nic Jones
November 23, 2009

Bill Dixon Tapestries For Small Orchestra Firehouse 12 2007

When this double-CD/single-DVD set hits the market in November 2009, trumpeter Bill Dixon will be 84 years old. In an ideal world--and on the basis of this release that's the world Dixon inhabits--age wouldn't be an issue. His work is that of a questing spirit not in thrall to the ageing process. Dixon's life and music were celebrated at the Vision Festival in 2007, but ...

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Bill Dixon: In Medias Res

by Clifford Allen
September 15, 2009

Trumpeter and composer Bill Dixon is one of those rare figures in creative music who was both there as it took its initial steps and currently remains at the forefront of contemporary improvisation. In the last two years, he has directed or co-led orchestral configurations and recorded and performed with hand-picked small groups of international renown. The modern brass language and its expansion of vocal sounds into areas hitherto rarely occupied by any instrument certainly are reflected in Dixon's years ...

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Bill Dixon: 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 15, 2008

Tra i musicisti più originali e - tutto sommato - largamente sottovalutati nell'ambito del jazz meno convenzionale, il trombettista Bill Dixon [mitico agitatore della October Revolution in Jazz del 1964] ha trovato di recente, ormai ultraottantenne, una rinnovata visibilità, dapprima come ospite di Rob Mazurek e della sua Exploding Star Orchestra, ora con la riproposizione su disco di un lavoro commissionato dal New York State Music Fund e eseguito in occasione del Vision Festival del 2007. Diciassette musicisti sotto la ...