Other Dimensions in Music

Other Dimensions in Music is an American improvisational quartet that has existed since the 1980s.

Other Dimensions In Music was founded in the 1980s by four veterans of the New York free jazz scene. The group members Rashid Bakr Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter and William Parker understand her ensemble as an element of collective improvisation. On the album Time is of the Essence is Beyond Time 1997 also worked with pianist Matthew Shipp of. In 1989 their first album was released on the label Silkheart Records. The band's music is mostly improvised, but also contains lyrical and tranquil elements (Cook and Morton ). In November 1999, the formation should occur on the Total Music Meeting in Berlin. For the short term failed Rashied Bakr Alan Silva got inside. Recently appeared on the French label margin, the live album Live at the Sunset. For Rashid Bakr drummer Hamid Drake joined the band. Parker plays the musette, a woodwind instrument which used Dewey Redman in the strap project Old and New Dreams; Hamid Drake and Carter sing also. The stylistic range has now been extended; integrate them into their improvisations also elements of blues, swing, bop, African music, sounds of the Middle East, which is also reflected in titles such as " Blues configuration", "Afro Caribean High Life ," " Blues for Baghdad", "Funk The Government / The Betrayal of New Orleans / Hurricane Katrina "," Suite for Miles Davis ", " For Louis, Cootie and Lester "," James Brown Ascension " expresses.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Now! (AUM Fidelity, 1997)
• Time is of the Essence is Beyond Time (AUM, 1997)
• Kaiso Stories ( Silkheart, 2011)

Swell

• Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz. 2nd edition, Penguin, London 1996