A public memorial event for musician/composer/educator/artist Bill Dixon will be held tomorrow from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at St. Mark’s Church In The Bowery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The centerpiece of the program will be a performance of Dixon’s last composition by…
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Bill Dixon Memorial Event To Be Held July 31st At New York’s St. Mark’s Church In The Bowery
July 20, 2010 – 9:01 am
On Saturday, July 31st from 5:30-7:30 p.m., musician/composer/educator/artist Bill Dixon will be remembered with a memorial event at St. Mark’s Church In The Bowery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Dixon, an innovator in the world of creative improvised music and…
BBC 3′s Jazz On 3 Pays Tribute To Bill Dixon
July 7, 2010 – 8:41 am
BBC 3′s weekly creative improvised music program Jazz on 3 remembered Bill Dixon on Monday night’s episode with a re-airing of a 2004 interview marking the 40th anniversary of “The October Revolution in Jazz”. The segment also included tracks from Dixon’s…
Remembering Bill Dixon
June 23, 2010 – 7:44 am
Last week we posted Bill Dixon’s official obituary, released by his estate and written by his biographer, Ben Young. Here are some of the other remembrances posted online since his passing. Boston Globe Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches Free Jazz…
Bill Dixon: The Official Obituary
June 17, 2010 – 7:42 am
Bill Dixon’s estate has released this official obituary written by Ben Young, author of Dixonia: A Bio-Discography of Bill Dixon (Greenwood Press, 1998). Trumpeter and composer Bill Dixon died June 16th at his home in North Bennington, Vermont after a two-year…
Bill Dixon Has Died
June 16, 2010 – 10:07 am
This morning we were asked by his estate to deliver the sad news that trumpeter/composer/educator Bill Dixon died last night in his sleep at his home in North Bennington, Vermont after a two-year illness. He was 84 years old. Dixon…
Bill Dixon’s Tapestries For Small Orchestra At FIMAV Tomorrow Night
May 21, 2010 – 10:01 am
On Saturday, May 22nd, the ensemble from eminent trumpeter/composer Bill Dixon‘s acclaimed 2009 release, Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12 Records), will give its world premiere performance at the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville. The group, which also features…
AUM Fidelity Sale At Other Music
April 22, 2010 – 9:33 am
If you love the releases on AUM Fidelity and getting up with the download, Other Music has a deal for you. The renowned New York music store is offering a special Digital Music Spotlight promotion featuring 32 titles from the…
Jazziz: Bill Dixon, Myra Melford, Joe Morris Quartet and Eri Yamamoto Trio
April 1, 2010 – 8:12 am
The new Spring 2010 issue of Jazziz features reviews of three of our clients’ recent releases, as well as a feature story about Myra Melford related to her most recent recording, The Whole Tree Gone, on Firehouse 12 Records. “Notes…
Signal To Noise: Bill Dixon + Myra Melford
March 19, 2010 – 7:19 am
The Spring 2010 issue of Signal To Noise features reviews of Firehouse 12 Records’ two latest releases: Bill Dixon’s Tapestries for Small Orchestra and Myra Melford’s The Whole Tree Gone. “All of the musicians (save bassist Ken Filiano) have recorded…