- Bill Dixon
:"for the designer of
board game s, seeBill Dixon (game designer) ."Bill Dixon (born
October 5 1925 ,Nantucket, Massachusetts ) is an American musician,composer ,artist , andeducator .He plays the
trumpet ,flugelhorn , andpiano .In 1964 Dixon organized and produced the 'October Revolution in Jazz' in
New York City and founded theJazz Composers Guild . He was relatively little recorded during this period, though he co-led some releases withArchie Shepp and appeared onCecil Taylor 'sBlue Note record "Conquistador!" in 1966.He was Professor of Music at
Bennington College ,Vermont , from 1968-1996. From 1970 to 1976 he played "in total isolation from the market places of this music", as he puts it. Solo trumpet recordings from this period were later released byCadence Jazz Records , and later collected on the self-released multi-CD set "Odyssey" along with other material.He was one of four featured musicians in the Canadian documentary "
Imagine the Sound " (along with Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, andPaul Bley ), 1981.In recent years he has recorded with Cecil Taylor,
Tony Oxley ,William Parker ,Alan Silva , and many others.External links
* [http://www.bill-dixon.com/ His official site]
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