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…
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JazzTimes: Bill Dixon’s Tapestries For Small Orchestra
March 15, 2010 – 3:01 pm
Chris Kelsey reviews eminent trumpeter/composer Bill Dixon’s Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12 Records) in the April issue of JazzTimes. He writes, “Pieces like ‘Motorcycle ‘66: reflections and Ruminations’ and ‘Adagio: Slow Mauve Scribblings’ travel across the sound field like…
Paris Transatlantic: Bill Dixon’s Tapestries For Small Orchestra
February 19, 2010 – 9:47 am
“Tapestries for Small Orchestra is a powerful achievement, an acknowledgement of what has come before and a slate-wiping/opening-up for things to come,” writes Clifford Allen in his unusually in-depth review of eminent trumpeter/composer Bill Dixon’s recent Firehouse 12 Records release in…
El Intruso’s International Critics’ and Musicians’ Polls
February 4, 2010 – 9:14 am
The Spanish-language Web publication ElIntruso.com has published the results of both its International Critics’ Poll and its International Musicians’ Poll, and we’re pleased to report that our 2009 clients topped five categories and finished second in four others. In the…
Jazzwise: Bill Dixon’s Tapestries For Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12)
January 29, 2010 – 8:04 am
“Tapestries for Small Orchestra is distinguished tone poetry and painting,” writes Jazzwise reviewer Kevin Le Gendre in the February issue. “The beauty of the 2-CD set lies as much in individual notes as it does assemblages thereof, and in the…
Jazz Journal: Bill Dixon’s Tapestries For Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12)
January 28, 2010 – 9:42 am
“Anyone with an interest in the work of trumpeter and composer Bill Dixon—one of the surpassing, albeit relatively unsung, contributors to the music that, for better or worse, is known as jazz—should snap up this generously conceived, challenging but immensely…
New Cadence Reviews + 2009 Record Poll Results
January 25, 2010 – 8:40 am
The Jan/Feb/Mar 2010 issue of Cadence just arrived, and with it several reviews of our clients’ releases. Here’s a sample: Bill Dixon’s Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12 Records) by Bob Rusch “…what really sets off this offering as uniquely…
Dusted: Bill Dixon's Tapestries For Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12)
January 4, 2010 – 10:27 am
Dusted‘s Bill Meyer kicks off the new year in style with a review of Bill Dixon’s Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12 Records). “He gives each element room to move,” Meyer writes, “and each personal/instrumental combination enough space for their…
2009 Voice Jazz Critics' Poll Results
December 29, 2009 – 9:28 pm
In what essentially amounts to a second Christmas morning for jazz publicists and their clients, the anxiously awaited results of the prestigious Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll, as overseen by the esteemed Francis Davis, have been published. 99 writers voted…
AAJ-NY: Best Of 2009
December 29, 2009 – 10:34 am
AllAboutJazz-New York published its annual Best of 2009 feature in the new January issue and we’re very proud to say our clients are well-represented. Special congratulations to those recognized as the year’s best in the following categories: Albums of the…