Bill Dixon - Intents And Purposes

Free-jazz trumpeter Bill Dixon (1925) was more influential as an organizer (he conceived the first free-jazz festival, “October Revolution in Jazz“, in 1964) than as a musician, but was actually one of the greatest musicians of free jazz, albeit a voluntary exile from the music industry. Dixon’s first album, Intents And Purposes (1967), released when he was already 42, included two lengthy workouts, the five-movement Metamorphoses 1962-1966 (october 1966) for a tentet (trumpet, trombone, alto, clarinet, English horn, cello, two basses, drums and percussion) and Voices (january 1967) for a quintet (trumpet, clarinet, cello, bass and drums). Both works displayed Dixon’s pensive, lyrical style that sounded like pure poetry among all the viscerality of free jazz. Instead of using the music as a weapon, Dixon (who was also a painter) used it to create vast canvasses of organized sounds, using space and silence in a way that predated Chicago’s “creative“ school, and often caressing the atmosphere with haunting bass lines. Source: Tracklist: Metamorphosis 1962-1966 - 0:00 Nightfall Pieces I - 13:32 Voices - 17:29 Nightfall Pieces II - 29:50 Genre: Avant-Garde / Free Jazz Year of CD edition: 2011 (Remastered CD Reissue) Publisher (label): International Phonograph Inc. Audio codec: FLAC (*.flac) Rip type: tracks .cue Audio bitrate: lossless Duration: 32:22 Source/release: / harmonicon