We use cookies on our website to provide you with the best experience. Most of these are essential and already present.
We do require your explicit consent to save your cart and browsing history between visits. Read about cookies we use here.
Your cart and preferences will not be saved if you leave the site.
Looong weekend sale 🎃 Special 10% discount on all in stock items until Sunday at midnight!
play
1
2
3
4
File under: Free Jazz

Whit Dickey Quartet

Root Perspectives

Label: Tao Forms

Format: CD

Genre: Jazz

In stock

€16.00
€14.40
+
-
"Every gesture and nuance of [Dickey’s] percussive pronunciation is telling.” –Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes

“I get into music not just by playing but by accessing a vibration,” says Whit Dickey, a stalwart of New York’s improvised music scene whose brand new work directing yet another formidable quartet, Root Perspectives, gets to the heart of what he means by that. It’s the latest recording from his label TAO Forms, which since its 2020 founding has released a steady stream of outstanding album works, including James Brandon Lewis’ poll-winning, Jesup Wagon, and Dickey’s own highly inspired Expanding Light & Astral Long Form: Staircase in Space. Root Perspectives was recorded in May, on the day after releasing Astral Long Form.

“I conceived this album off of a vibration that I felt some 15 years ago, while obsessively listening to the title composition of John Coltrane’s Crescent,” he recalls. “It began to have mathematical meaning to me.” The sound and energy of a tenor-based quartet was a logical choice, and this presents the first encounter between Dickey and master saxophonist Tony Malaby, along with one of Dickey’s closest associates, Matthew Shipp, and the youngest of the group, agile and inventive bassist Brandon Lopez.

Details
File under: Free Jazz
Cat. number: TAO 12
Year: 2022
Notes:
All compositions by Whit Dickey, in collaboration with the Quartet; © TAO Forms Produced by Whit Dickey Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Jim Clouse at Park West Studios, Brooklyn in May 2022 Liner notes by Mia Hansford Art & Design by William Mazza Studio