Other Dimensions In Music

Last updated
Other Dimensions In Music
Genres Free jazz
Years active1981 (1981)–present
Members
Website www.aumfidelity.com/odim.html

Other Dimensions In Music is an American free jazz group founded in the 1980s. [1] [2]

Contents

The group is a collective quartet composed of trumpeter Roy Campbell, multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, bassist William Parker and drummer Rashid Bakr. Campbell, Parker and Bakr began working together as members of Jemeel Moondoc‘s group Muntu. Other Dimensions In Music came into existence when Carter joined them in 1981. [3] Their third album, Time is of the Essence is Beyond Time is a live collaboration with pianist Matthew Shipp. On their next recording, Live at the Sunset, drummer Hamid Drake replaces Bakr. Kaiso Stories finds the quartet backing vocalist Fay Victor.

The group's music is entirely improvised but is generally more melodic than some listeners expect from free jazz.

Members

Guest musicians

Discography

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Parker (musician)</span> American jazz musician

William Parker is an American free jazz double bassist. Beginning in the 1980s, Parker played with Cecil Taylor for over a decade, and he has led the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra since 1981. The Village Voice named him "the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time" and DownBeat has called him "one of the most adventurous and prolific bandleaders in jazz".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matthew Shipp</span> American pianist, composer, and bandleader

Matthew Shipp is an American avant-garde jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader.

Guillermo E. Brown is a multi-disciplinary performer whose works include Soul at the Hands of the Machine, The Beat Kids' Open Rhythm System and Sound Magazine, Black Dreams 1.0,...Is Arturo Klauft, Handeheld, Shuffle Mode, WOOF TICKET EP, PwEP2, forthcoming full-length album Dream&Destroy and performance piece Bee Boy. His one-man theater piece, Robeson in Space, premiered at Luna Stage (2005).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mat Maneri</span> American composer, violin, and viola player

Mat Maneri is an American composer, violin, and viola player. He is the son of the saxophonist Joe Maneri and Sonja Maneri.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daniel Carter (musician)</span> Musical artist

Daniel Carter is an American free jazz musician who plays saxophone, trumpet, and flute.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sabir Mateen</span> American musician and composer

Sabir Mateen is an American musician and composer from Philadelphia. His musical style is primarily avant-garde jazz. He plays tenor and alto saxophone, B♭ and alto clarinet, and flute.

AUM Fidelity is an independent record label in New York City primarily devoted to avant-garde jazz artists such as William Parker, Matthew Shipp, and David S. Ware. It has also released recordings by improvisational rock band Shrimp Boat and exclusively distributes the CaseQuarter and Riti labels. It was founded in 1997 by former Homestead Records label manager Steven Joerg.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roy Campbell Jr.</span> American trumpeter (1952–2014)

Roy Sinclair Campbell Jr. was an American trumpeter frequently linked to free jazz, although he also performed rhythm and blues and funk during his career.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hamid Drake</span> American jazz drummer and percussionist

Hamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steve Swell</span> American jazz trombonist, composer, and educator

Steve Swell is an American free jazz trombonist, composer, and educator.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rashid Bakr (musician)</span> American free jazz drummer

Rashid Bakr is an American free jazz drummer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David S. Ware</span> American jazz saxophonist

David Spencer Ware was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

Silkheart Records is a Swedish record company and label dedicated to improvised music and free jazz.

<i>Other Dimensions In Music</i> (album) 1990 studio album by Other Dimensions In Music

Other Dimensions In Music is the self-titled debut album by American free jazz collective quartet Other Dimensions In Music, composed of trumpeter Roy Campbell, multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, bassist William Parker and drummer Rashid Bakr. It was recorded in studio in 1989 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label. In the liner notes of the album, Campbell claims "We represent the sum total of the musical masters who played before us and presently". Meanwhile, Parker says that "the music on this album is defined by the strictest rules of beauty, each sound is ordered and cured with the energy of ancient spirits. The same spirits that guided John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong and Bud Powell." The CD edition adds two bonus tracks.

<i>Now!</i> (Other Dimensions In Music album) 1998 studio album by Other Dimensions In Music

Now! is the second album by the free jazz collective quartet Other Dimensions In Music, composed of trumpeter Roy Campbell, multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, bassist William Parker and drummer Rashid Bakr. It was recorded in studio in 1997 and released on the AUM Fidelity label. The music of the quartet is fully improvised.

<i>Strata</i> (Matthew Shipp album) 1998 studio album by Matthew Shipp

Strata is an album by the American jazz pianist Matthew Shipp, recorded in 1997 and released on the Swiss hatOLOGY label.

<i>Time Is of the Essence Is Beyond Time</i> 2000 live album by Other Dimensions In Music

Time Is of the Essence Is Beyond Time is the third album by free jazz collective quartet Other Dimensions In Music, composed of trumpeter Roy Campbell, multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, bassist William Parker and drummer Rashid Bakr. For this special quintet, recorded live in 1997 and released on the AUM Fidelity label, they are joined by pianist Matthew Shipp.

<i>Fractured Dimensions</i> 2003 live album by William Parker

Fractured Dimensions is an album by American jazz double bassist William Parker, which was recorded live during the Berlin Total Music Meeting in 1999 and released on the German FMP label in 2003.

<i>Live at the Sunset</i> 2007 live album by Other Dimensions In Music

Live at the Sunset is the fourth album by free jazz collective quartet Other Dimensions In Music, composed of trumpeter Roy Campbell, multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, bassist William Parker and Hamid Drake replacing regular drummer Rashid Bakr. It was recorded at the Sunset club in Paris in 2006 and released on the French Marge label.

<i>Kaiso Stories</i> 2011 studio album by Other Dimensions In Music

Kaiso Stories is an album by free jazz collective quartet Other Dimensions In Music featuring vocalist Fay Victor, which was recorded in 2010 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label. The album is a collection of improvised pieces with classic Calypso lyrics from Trinidad and Tobago. Kaiso is the precursor to the modern Calypso.

References

  1. Sharpe, John (17 December 2006). "Other Dimensions in Music at the JVC Jazz Festival in Paris, Oct. 19-20". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
  2. Allmusic
  3. Live at the Sunset Original Liner Notes by Roy Campbell