Thursday, October 07, 2010

Following the Sound of Bill Dixon




  Searching For a Sound: Remembering Bill Dixon
Follow the Sound Festival
Antwerp, Belgium

Next week, eight days after Bill Dixon's eighty-fifth birthday, I will fly to Antwerp and join Franz Koglmann, Jacques Coursil and Barry Guy to create new music in Bill's memory.  Each musician in this grouping worked with Dixon at some point over the past forty five years.  Rob Leurentop, Artistic Director of the Follow the Sound Festival, was inspired to knit the four of us together.  I am happy that he had the notion.
image of Stephen Haynes by Maurice Robertson
image of Franz Koglmann by Elfie Semotan
image of Jacques Coursil by Juliette Robert