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…
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…
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…
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…