Whit Dickey Quartet
Root Perspectives
2022 - Tao Forms: TAO 12
https://www.aumfidelity.com/products/whit-dickey-quartet-root-perspectives
https://taoforms./album/root-perspectives
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_Perspectives

* Tony Malaby  : tenor saxophone
* Matthew Shipp: piano
* Brandon Lopez: bass
* Whit Dickey  : drums

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Malaby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shipp
https://www.brandonlopez.nyc/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whit_Dickey

Recorded by Jim Clouse at Park West Studios,
Brooklyn, New York, USA, on May 7, 2020.

Reviews
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By Thom Jurek
https://www.allmusic.com/album/root-perspectives-mw0003810154

Vanguard jazz drummer Whit Dickey inaugurated his TAO Forms label in 2020 with
the release of pianist Matthew Shipp's Piano Equation. Since then he's been
industrious: He released the pianist's seminal Codebreaker, as well as curating
titles by saxophonists James Brandon Lewis and Ivo Perelman, cornetist Kirk
Knuffke, drummers Tani Tabbal and Michael Bisio, and a complement of his own
recordings. The latter include the trio dates Village Mothership and Expanding
Light. Astral Long Form: Staircase in Space, an earlier quartet offering, was
released one day before this session was recorded. Dickey's companions here
include Shipp and bassist Brandon Lopez (both regulars), and master saxophonist
Tony Malaby in his first collaboration with the drummer. In his liner essay,
Dickey claims that he conceived this recording 15 years ago after catching a
"vibration" while repeatedly listening to John Coltrane's Crescent and A Love
Supreme. It sounds like neither album. [...]

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By Mark Corroto
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/root-perspectives-whit-dickey-quartet-tao-forms

By Filipe Freitas
https://jazztrail.net/blog/whit-dickey-quartet-root-perspectives-album-review

By Jim Hynes
https://www.makingascene.org/whit-dickey-quartet-root-perspectives/

By Christian Carey
https://www.sequenza21.com/2023/01/whit-dickey-quartet-root-perspectives-cd-review/

Jan Granlie (dk)
https://salt-peanuts.eu/record/whit-dickey-quartet-2/

Par Julien Aunos (fr)
https://www.citizenjazz.com/Whit-Dickey-Quartet-3481430.html