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Whit Dickey

Whit Dickey made a name for himself as the former drummer of {{m: David S. Ware = 11160}}’s famous quartet. Since then Dickey’s musical contributions have gone well beyond his work as Ware’s drummer. He is capable of tremendous power and yet has the ability for subtle gesture. Dickey is a composer as well as a drummer and his music has reached new heights in his recent small group work, with a coterie of great musicians including alto saxophonist {{Rob Brown}}. He has also performed with {{m: Matthew Shipp = 4290}} since 1991 and continues to play and record with {{m: Roy Campbell Jr

Morph

By WHIT DICKEY

Label: ESP Disk
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD 1: Reckoning - Blue Threads; Reckoning; Dice; Thick; Helix; Steps; Morph; Firmament. CD2: Pacific Noir - Noir 1; Noir 2; Take the Wild Train; To Planet Earth; Epiphany; Pulse Morph; Space Trance; Noir 3; Noir 4.

Music from new label Tao Forms

By BOB OSBORNE

Tao Forms is a new recording label launched in Spring 2020. Drummer—improviser—composer Whit Dickey is both the creative director and executive producer of this fresh endeavour. Matthew Shipp's The Piano Equation was the label's inaugural release. It was followed by Expanding Light, which is the new work by Whit Dickey himself. The music is distributed by ...

Whit Dickey: Morph

By KARL ACKERMANN

Two players on Morph, Matthew Shipp and Nate Wooley, hardly need an introduction to those who venture into free jazz or experimental waters. But the leader, free jazz drummer Whit Dickey, is more of an enigma. Though prolific, his credits are more often in a supporting role. Dickey has been working with Shipp for nearly four ...

Whit Dickey, Asher Gamedze, Quin Kirchner, Icepick and More

By MAURICE HOGUE

Three albums by drummers highlight this episode. South Africa's Asher Gamedze's Dialectic Soul brings to light the freer, more avant side of contemporary South African jazz (perhaps in a way that the revered Louis Moholo Moholo did over fifty years ago), while drummer Quin Kirchner's latest delves into various rhythms and tributes to favorite musicians. Tying ...

Matthew Shipp: The Piano Equation

By KARL ACKERMANN

Matthew Shipp is like an engineer from another dimension. In three decades of making music, he maintains an inquisitiveness for expanding new dialects and an aptitude for blending composition and exploration. Marking his sixtieth birthday, The Piano Equation reveals the pianist contemplating past experiments if only as a platform for the future; a foundation for yet ...

Whit Dickey: Tao Quartets: Peace Planet & Box of Light

By GIUSEPPE SEGALA

Possiamo dire che l'assioma secondo il quale tutti i jazzisti sono sottovalutati, non sia poi così paradossale. Parliamo naturalmente dei musicisti che mettono al primo posto del loro operato il fare artistico e non la realizzazione di un prodotto solo ben accetto sul mercato. Spesso ci troviamo di fronte a musicisti che subiscono tale disattenzione in ...

Peace Planet & Box of Light

By WHIT DICKEY

Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2019
Track listing: Peace Planet; Seventh Sun; Ancient Monument; Suite for DSW; Blossom Time; Eye Opener; Ellipse: Passage Through; Ethereality; Box of Light; Rotation Steps; Jungle Suite.

Drone Dream

By WHIT DICKEY

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Soaring; Weave 1; Weave 2; Legba Sequence - Dream 1; Legba Sequence - Dream 2; Oblique Blessing.