Jazz: A Revived Label Does Right by Late Trumpeter Bill Dixon

A couple weeks ago a meticulously produced and packaged CD reissue of Intents and Purposes, a classic and incredibly rare 1967 album by trumpeter Bill Dixon, began turning up in record shops. International Phonograph, the Chicago label behind it, isn't exactly new, but its only other release is an album by reedist pianist Richie Beirach and bassist George Mraz that came out in 1981, when the imprint was based in Los Angeles.…

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