Vade Mecum

by Bill Dixon

Vade Mecum cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Soul Note
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:17:42
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Trumpeter and avant-garde pioneer Bill Dixon assembled an unusual double-bass quartet for this masterful exercise in free improvisation. 'Vade Mecum' is intensely spacious and atmospheric, focusing on tonal exploration and suspenseful, atonal interplay rather than dense rhythmic swing.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, instrumental, atmospheric, atonal, avant-garde, technical, improvised, experimental, long-form, minimal

Tracklist

  1. Moment (4:24)
  2. Anamorphosis (12:28)
  3. Viale Nino Bixio 20 (9:16)
  4. Pellucity (9:04)
  5. Vade Mecum (15:51)
  6. Twice Upon A Time (13:12)
  7. Acanthus (13:24)

Credits

  • Barry Guy - double bass
  • William Parker - double bass
  • Tony Oxley - percussion
  • Bill Dixon - Primary Artist

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