Bill Dixon – Cause of Death, Age, Date, and Facts

The composer Bill Dixon passed away at age 84, this age of death has to be considered impressive. What was the cause of death? Below is all you want to know regarding the death of Bill Dixon and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Avant-garde composer and musician who was associated with the free jazz movement and played the trumpet, piano, and flugelhorn.

He studied visual art at Boston University and the Art Students League and later attended the Hartnette Conservatory of Music.

He taught in the Music Department at Bennington College in Vermont for nearly thirty years.

He and his family moved from Nantucket, Massachusetts, to Harlem when he was seven years old.

He collaborated with Cecil Taylor on Taylor’s 1966 jazz album Conquistador!

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Quotes by Bill Dixon

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

Bill Dixon

Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.

Bill Dixon

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

Bill Dixon

My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.

Bill Dixon

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn’t been within the realm of possibility.

Bill Dixon