In the early 1960s, when Dickerson first emerged on the scene, a number of musicians had already arrived at the conclusion that bebop, which had dominated jazz for two decades, was an increasingly inadequate system out of which to make a music that could embody the tensions, dangers, revelations and liberated energies of the times. His music, while not nearly as radical in its departures and explorations as, say, the music of Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman, certainly places him among the significant contributors to the jazz revolution of his era.
Tracklist
Total time: 64:16 min.
01. Unity (Walt Dickerson) 16:23
02. High Moon (Walt Dickerson) 17:40
03. Theme From Lawrence Of Arabia (Maurice Jarre) 2:42
04. That Is The Desert (Maurice Jarre) 5:06
05. Motif From Overture, Part I (Maurice Jarre) 3:52
06. Motif From Overture, Part II (Maurice Jarre) 3:46
07. Arrival At Auda's Camp (Maurice Jarre) 2:20
08. Nefud Mirage, Part I (Maurice Jarre) 4:32
09. Nefud Mirage, Part II (Maurice Jarre) 4:15
10. The Voice Of The Guns (Kenneth J. Alford) 3:28
Album details
Sources:
Tracks #1-2, from the album "Walt Dickerson Plays Unity" (Audio Fidelity, AFSD 6131)
Tracks #3-10, from the album "Jazz Impressions of Lawrence of Arabia"
(Dauntless, DS 6313)
Personnel:
Tracks #1-2: Walt Dickerson (vibes), Walter Davis Jr. (piano),
George Tucker (bass), Edgar Bateman or Andrew Cyrille (drums).
Recorded in New York City, on March 5, 1964
Tracks #3-10: Walt Dickerson (vibes), Austin Crowe (piano),
Henry Grimes (bass), Andrew Cyrille (drums).
Recorded in New York City, March 21 & 25, 1963
Cover photo by Don Schlitten
Original sessions supervised by Tom Wilson
This compilation produced for CD release by Jordi Pujol
© 2006 by Fresh Sound Records
Stereo · Digitally Remastered
Blue Moon Producciones Discograficas, S.L.
