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Bill Dixon: The Morality of Improvisation

by Clifford Allen
August 20, 2005

Followers of improvised music are very good at expanding on the personalities of artists, and that oral tradition has certainly been aided by the musicians through a sort of 'educational mythology.' To be sure, the personalities of Miles, Trane, Cecil, Mingus and Ornette are fascinating and notable, but this interest in the men and their whims ...

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Article: Megaphone

Bill Dixon: The Benefits of the Struggle

by AAJ Staff
June 1, 2005

By Bill Dixon I appreciate your interest in having me say some things that you can present in your paper to interested readers, readers that may be interested in my work, how I go about it, how I have existed, what my work means, how that work is arrived at and my general ...

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Odyssey

By Bill Dixon

Label: Birdology
Released: 2001

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Berlin Abbozzi

By Bill Dixon

Label: FMP Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Berlin Abbozzi: Currents/ Open Quiet/The Orange Bell/ Acrolithes.

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Article: Album Review

Bill Dixon: Berlin Abbozzi

by John Sharpe
January 1, 2001

Bill Dixon’s latest recording, his first on FMP, is an intimate club date well captured in November 1999. The instrumentation of trumpet, two basses and drums, is one which has been used to good effect on previous Dixon recordings such as November 1981 and the two volumes of Vade Mecum, both on Soul Note. This group ...

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Bill Dixon: Berlin Abbozzi

by Andrew Lindstrom
January 1, 2001

The evocative, untitled pen-and-ink abstract which graces the cover of Bill Dixon's latest release, Berlin Abbozzi (FMP), hints at the impressive aesthetic focus of the sounds contained within. The cover art is Dixon's own; it is a beautifully balanced piece, mostly shades of a single hue, with a certain aura of forboding mystery. The music only ...

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Bill Dixon Quartet: Berlin Abbozzi

by Derek Taylor
January 1, 2001

By all accounts, including his own, Bill Dixon is a very private and passionate man. On the record in an interview with Cadence's Bob Rusch several decades ago Dixon recounted a litany of misconceptions ascribed against him and in no uncertain terms stated his disdain for those unable or unwilling to accept his artistry on its ...

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Berlin Abbozzi

By Bill Dixon

Label: Birdology
Released: 2000

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Papyrus Volume I

By Bill Dixon

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2000

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Bill Dixon with Tony Oxley: Papyrus Volume I

by Glenn Astarita
February 1, 2000

The under-recorded yet highly regarded trumpeter/composer/writer Bill Dixon teams up with renowned free-jazz, improvising drummer Tony Oxley on Papyrus Volume I. Here, Dixon extracts unusual sounds from his horn via sparse, irregular lines as he shapes spacious themes while affording the listener an opportunity to contemplate time and motion throughout these 12 pieces. The ever-inventive Oxley ...