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Bill Dixon With Exploding Star Orchestra

Label: Thrill Jockey
Released: 2008
Track listing: Entrances/One; Constellations For Innerlight Projections (For Bill Dixon); Entrances/Two.

Album

17 Musicians In Search Of A Sound: Darfur

Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2008
Track listing: Prelude; Intrados; In Search Of A Sound; Contour One; Contour Two; Scattering Of The Following; Darfur; Contour Three; Sinopia; Pentimento I; Pentimento II; Pentimento III; Pentimento IV.

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Article: Album Review

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

Read "17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Bill Dixon: 17 Musicians in Search Of A Sound: Darfur

Read "17 Musicians in Search Of A Sound: Darfur" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Unlike bassist Henry Grimes, Bill Dixon was never lost. Maybe his absence over the last 15 years was because he didn't want to be found. After the trumpeter, born in 1925, pioneered the New Thing jazz of the 1960s, including the October Revolution festival and the Jazz Composer's Guild, he dropped from the spotlights to teach ...

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Article: Album Review

Bill Dixon - Rob Mazurek: Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra

Read "Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Bill Dixon è una di quelle rare icone del free jazz ancora viventi le cui registrazioni (una rarità!) si fanno ogni volta, grandemente, apprezzare. L’ultimo lavoro del trombettista americano, uscito per la Thrill Jockey, è una sorta di grande sinfonia orchestrale in tre atti, frutto della collaborazione con il cornettista Rob Mazurek e la sua Exploding ...

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Article: Album Review

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

Read "17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur" reviewed by John Sharpe


Trumpeter Bill Dixon works with an orchestral conception, even when playing solo, so it is fascinating to hear what happens when he has 17 musicians at his disposal. Dixon first came to prominence as the organizer of the 1964 October Revolution in Jazz, and later taught at the prestigious Bennington College in a near 30 year ...

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News: Recording

Bill Dixon's New Orchestral CD Released Today on AUM Fidelity

Bill Dixon's New Orchestral CD Released Today on AUM Fidelity

...Dixon has fashioned a work around which new formal paradigms will need to be constructed. I hope this fine addition to his discography, coupled with a renewed interest in his work, will allow more of Dixon's orchestral compositions to be performed by equally sympathetic interpreters. --Marc Medwin, Signal to Noise On Tuesday, June 24th, ...

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Article: Album Review

Bill Dixon: 17 Musicians In Search Of A Sound: Darfur

Read "17 Musicians In Search Of A Sound: Darfur" reviewed by Nic Jones


If there's an opposite of aging that isn't growing ever youthful then Bill Dixon's got it. It comes here in music of infinite color, played by an ensemble entirely empathetic with his aims and intentions yet still capable of putting some personal stamp on it. As such it gets to grips, in no uncertain terms, with ...

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News: Music Industry

Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra

Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra

Trumpeter Bill Dixon was a significant presence on the free improvising jazz scene of early-1960s New York, but his performing progress suffered from a predilection for academic activities, and his recorded output has consequently remained sporadic. So, ultimately, Dixon's legendary reputation might be bigger than his documented reality, although he was chosen for the Lifetime Recognition ...

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Article: Profile

Bill Dixon: In Rehearsal, In Performance

Read "Bill Dixon: In Rehearsal, In Performance" reviewed by Marc Medwin


"Composition is the assembling of musical materials that are generally accessible to every musician and their placement into a new order." “Improvisation is the instantaneous realization of composition without the benefits or demerits of change or alteration." --Trumpeter/Composer Bill Dixon on Composition and Improvisation. “Don't just jump in--don't play right away." Bill Dixon's rich ...


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