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Andrew Dixon's Mind Noise - Special Album Release Party And Shows Set For August 31 and September 3!
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Hope Insite Publicity
Mind Noise, the fourth album by composer and musician Andrew Dixon was just released, and is even more avant-garde than his previous works. He is celebrating this new creation with two more big Album Release Parties in August & September. The first one, on August 31st, happens at The Black Cat in San Francisco, with the second show at the beautiful Stow Lake Boat House on September 3rd. Go to here for tickets and information. Mind Noise is lean, raw, ...
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Andrew Dixon Releases 'Mind Noise' — Album Release Concerts Scheduled In Berkeley And Oakland
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Hope Insite Publicity
Mind Noise, the much anticipated fourth album by Andrew Dixon is here, and is even more avant-garde than his previous works. He is going to celebrate this new creation with two big album release concerts! The fun begins at the The Back Room in Berkeley on July 23rd at 8pm, and then there will be an even larger event at the beautiful Temescal Art Center in Oakland on July 24th at 2pm. Join us for one or both events! Mind ...
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Saxophone Maestra Fostina Dixon Blends Contemporary Jazz, Gospel, Funk And R&B On "Here We Go Again"
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1888 Media
First Single “Prayer of Jabez” is a Tribute To Marvin Gaye, Whom She Toured with for 4 Years Wilmington, DE: As a highly-regarded, in-demand composer, vocalist and jazz soloist who plays soprano, alto and baritone saxophones, flute, and clarinet, Fostina Dixon has been honing her craft for decades as a guest soloist with Abbey Lincoln, Barry Harris, Earl May and the Big Apple Jazzwomen. Known for her elegant mesmerizing phrasing, she has also played with Prince, Gil Evans, Roy Ayers, ...
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"Akua's Dance," Third CD By Cellist / Composer / Arranger Akua Dixon, To Be Released February 10
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Terri Hinte Publicity
With her sublime new album, Akua’s Dance, cellist Akua Dixon brings her sumptuous sound to the foreground on an array of material encompassing exquisite balladry, the music’s deepest roots in African and African-American culture, and instrumental pieces gleaned from Dixon’s opera-in-progress. Her label Akua’s Music will release the new CD on February 10. “The music moves forward from where I was to where I’m going,” says Dixon, who notes that her last release, 2015’s critically hailed album Akua Dixon, was ...
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Are Independent Artists Better Off? [Gabe Dixon]
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HypeBot
Here Nashville-based artist Gabe Dixon weighs in on the advantages and creative freedoms which working as an independent artist provides, as apposed to the limitations that come with being signed to a major label. Guest Post by Gabe Dixon on American Songwriter Until now, all of my studio albums have been released with the help of a major record label. For my current release, Turns To Gold, I chose a different path. Funding, recording, and releasing this album independently has offered ...
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Cellist Akua Dixon To Release Her Second CD As A Leader, "Akua Dixon," January 13, 2015
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Jazz string pioneer Akua Dixon entered a new creative phase with the sleek 2011 quartet session Moving On, her first album under her own name. Her new album, Akua Dixon, is a dazzling string conclave that surveys the cellist/composer/arranger’s expansive stylistic reach. Dixon’s label, Akua’s Music, will release the disc on January 13, 2015. The project showcases Dixon as a powerfully emotive improviser and dauntingly creative arranger exploring sumptuous American Songbook ballads, a suave Afro-Cuban standard, erotically charged nuevo tango, ...
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Bill Dixon - Bill Dixon with the Exploding Star Orchestra (2008)
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Something Else!
had this discussion about jazz with a friend of mine once. He really couldn't deal the sound of a full-bore, large-scale ensemble (he doesn't like any jazz, honestly, but that's sort of irrelevant here). I can't remember exactly what CD was playing in my car, but it seemed to make him nervous. “How can you stand this?!," he said. It seemed like the wrong question to me. In my synesthetic kind of way, the sounds of music seem to emanate ...
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Farewell Bill Dixon...Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra, 2008
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
The great Bill Dixon is gone. I am late at putting my hand at a fitting memorial line or two. This is all I think I need to say: Bill Dixon never sounded like anybody else on trumpet and he never wrote a line that didn't have his indelible stylistic footprint squarely emblazoned upon it. So we turn to one of his last recordings, Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra (Thrill Jockey 192). As I nabbed this as a download ...
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Bill Dixon - Intents and Purposes (RCA 1969, International Phonographic, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Trumpeter, composer and educator Bill Dixon's music has always been something of an enigma to me, but seeing how revered he was by his fellow musicians I tried my best to enjoy it. This album, amazingly released originally by a major label and out of print for many years has been given a beautiful re-issue and re-mastering, which brings the album considered to be Dixon's masterpiece to life. I found this music surprisingly accessible, but no less original in its ...
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Recent Listening: A Bill Dixon Rarity
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph). Dixon, who died last year at 84, is typically described as a force in the free jazz that emerged in the1960s. He was that, but Intents and Purposes defied labeling when Dixon recorded it more than four decades ago. This long overdue reissue confirms that the album withstands categorization. Its daring and forthright iconoclasm has substance that outlives much music that was conceived in protest or defiance in the roiling atmosphere of that ...
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