Gayle Dixon

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Gayle Dixon (born February 28, 1947 , † November 23, 2008 ) was a classical American violinist who was also active in the field of jazz .

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Dixon comes from a musical family. In 1970 she accompanied McCoy Tyner at a concert in the Town Hall . Together with her younger sister, the cellist Akua Dixon , after studying classical music at the Manhattan School of Music, she founded the string quartet Quartet Indigo in 1972 , which accompanied Carmen McRae , James Blood Ulmer and Dizzy Gillespie on albums on Winter in Lisbon . She also worked frequently with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and was part of the Uptown String Quartet . She founded The String Reunion with Noel Pointer in 1976 to develop a repertoire of classical African American music. She also played frequently in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra . She was also involved in many musicals. She was the outstanding soloist on James Newton's album Luella . Dixon was involved in 43 recordings in the field of jazz between 1971 and 2006, for example with Rahsaan Roland Kirk , Hubert Laws , Cleo Laine , Terence Blanchard and Hermeto Pascoal .

Between 1986 and 1993 she served on the board of the New York musicians' union Local 802 . In the last years of her life she was also active as a music teacher.

literature

  • Leslie Gourse Madame Jazz. Contemporary Women Instrumentalists . Oxford University Press, 1995

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maurice Edwards How Music Grew in Brooklyn: A Biography of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra , 2006, p. 181
  2. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography