Whit Dickey Quartet – Root Perspectives
Root Perspectives by Whit Dickey Quartet Root Perspectives by Whit Dickey Quartet Released October 21, 2022!! Note CD Bundle Available Above, togetherw/ Whit Dickey Quartet – Astral Long Form [TAO 12] - CD in heavyweight digipak Tony Malaby: tenor saxophone Matthew Shipp: piano Brandon Lopez: bassWhit Dickey: drums, compositions “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 drummer 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 elliptical phrase. It’s the latest recording from Dickey’s label TAO Forms, which since its 2020 founding has released some of the freshest material in recent memory, including James Brandon Lewis’ poll-winning Jesup Wagon, and Dickey’s own highly inspired works, Expanding Light