Music Lives 365: October 5


I liked the sound of bronze strings on rosewood better than steel strings on magnets, and so I walked out of that club in Vermont, rented myself a van and PA system, and started traveling around the colleges in New England by myself, without gigs, just setting up in the lobbies of dormitories on a Saturday. Pretty soon I started getting a following.
— Jonathan Edwards

Mr. Dixon a trumpet improviser, composer, educator, activist, painter, with substantial work collaborating on projects in film, dance and documentary. A major force in avante guard arts in the 1960’s