''Papyrus Volume II'' is an album by American jazz trumpeter

Bill Dixon William Robert “Bill” Dixon (October 5, 1925 – June 16, 2010) was an American composer, improviser, visual artist, activist, and educator. Dixon was one of the seminal figures in free jazz and late twentieth-century contemporary music. Hi ...

recorded in 1998 and released on the Italian

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Bill Dixon discography
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Reception

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awarded the album 3 stars. The authors of ''

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'' wrote: "There are moments when trumpeter and percussionist seem to be working on different ideas... And yet, there is such a stirring thoughtfulness to Dixon's spacious solo lines that the logic carries each piece forward to a satisfactory conclusion."

Track listing

:''All compositions by Bill Dixon except as indicated'' # "Silver Point: Jeanne Phillips" - 1:32 # "Papyrus #2" (Bill Dixon, Tony Oxley) - 12:13 # "Pyxis" - 4:33 # "Squares" - 7:07 # "Epigraphy" - 8:19 # "Sine Qua Non #2" - 6:34 # "Couplet" - 5:20 # "Four: VI: 1998" - 10:23 # "Crawlspace" - 13:14 # "Suri-Mono: Louise Wade" - 3:04

Personnel

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

Tony Oxley Tony Oxley (born 15 June 1938) is an English free improvising drummer and one of the founders of Incus Records. Biography Oxley was born in Sheffield, England. A self-taught pianist by the age of eight, he first began playing the drums at s ...

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

References

2000 albums Bill Dixon albums Black Saint/Soul Note albums {{2000s-jazz-album-stub