Another Dixon Review

Bill Dixon's recent Chicago performance is reviewed by John Litweiler:

"This concert was mostly quiet, dark, slowly moving, yet it teemed with irrepressible life. The three compositions he offered were devoted to pure sound, texture and shape, for Dixon's music is now a wholly abstract art. Each piece was a subtle, meticulously sculpted setting for improvisation. Again and again his long trumpet tones, somber and brooding, hovered above his mates.
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The flowing textures were so finely balanced that insensitive choices by anyone could have destroyed these pieces. Instead, the changing ensemble weights sustained an almost miraculous tension."