Tapestries for Small Orchestra

by Bill Dixon

Tapestries for Small Orchestra cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: Firehouse 12
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 2:20:48
  • Community rating: 4.15/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

One of the final recordings from the legendary free-jazz trumpeter, this album documents a stunning, highly abstract performance with a nine-piece ensemble. Utilizing deep, textural brass dissonance, multiple drum kits, and electronic manipulation, Dixon conducts a profound, slow-moving exploration of avant-garde composition and conducted improvisation. It is universally praised as a late-career masterpiece of modern creative jazz.

Genres

Descriptors: Improvisation, Avant Garde, Complex, Technical, Dissonant

Tracklist

  1. Motorcycle '66: Reflections & Ruminations
  2. Slivers: Sand Dance For Sophia
  3. Phrygian II
  4. Adagio: Slow Mauve Scribblings
  5. Allusions I
  6. Tapestries
  7. Durations Of Permanence
  8. Innocenenza
  9. Going To The Center

Credits

  • Bill Dixon - primary artist, composed by, trumpet, electronics
  • Glynis Lomon - cello
  • Michel C么t茅 - contrabass clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Rob Mazurek - cornet, electronics
  • Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet, flugelhorn, bass trumpet, piccolo trumpet
  • Graham Haynes - cornet, flugelhorn, electronics
  • Ken Filiano - double bass, electronics
  • Stephen Haynes - trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn
  • Warren Smith - vibraphone, marimba, drums, timpani [tympani], gong

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