Vade Mecum

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz	^[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide	^[5]

In his review for AllMusic, Brian Olewnick states "The expansiveness and airiness of the sound here is one of this record's most striking qualities."^[2]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings called "Anamorphosis" "one of Dixon's most thoughtful conceptions," and commented: "Inside almost all of Dixon's small group recordings there is a dark pressure, like the imprint of a much larger composition that has been denied full expression. That is profoundly evident on Vade Mecum."^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Bill Dixon

"Moment" - 4:24
"Anamorphosis" - 12:29
"Viale Nino Bixio 20" - 9:17
"Pellucity"- 9:04
"Vade Mecum" - 15:52
"Twice Upon a Time" - 13:12
"Acanthus" - 13:25

Personnel

References

^ Stubenrauch, R., Bill Dixon discography accessed November 17, 2014
^ ^a ^b Olewnick, Brian. Bill Dixon - Vade Mecum: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 378. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2004). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 247.
^ Swenson, John, ed. (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. p. 206.

Bill Dixon

Studio albums

Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet (1962)
Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (1964)
Intents and Purposes (1967)
Bill Dixon in Italy Volume One (1980)
Bill Dixon in Italy Volume Two (1980)
November 1981 (1981)
Thoughts (1987)
Son of Sisyphus (1988)
Vade Mecum (1994)
Vade Mecum II (1994)
Papyrus Volume I (1998)
Papyrus Volume II (1998)
Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra (2008)
Tapestries for Small Orchestra (2009)

Live albums

Berlin Abbozzi (1999)
17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur (2008)
Envoi (2011)

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Solo albums	Fizzles (1991) Symmetries (2001) Five Fizzles for Samuel Beckett (2009) Irvin's Comet (2019)
with Howard Riley	Angle (1968 & 1969) The Day Will Come (1970)
with Tony Oxley	Ichnos (1969 & 1970) February Papers (1977) Unreleased 1974–2016 ( 1974, 1981, & 2016)
with Paul Rutherford	Iskra 1903 (1970 & 1972) Sequences 72 & 73 (1972, 1973, & 1974)
with London Jazz Composers' Orchestra	Ode (1972) Zurich Concerts (1987 & 1988) Harmos (1989) Double Trouble (1989) Theoria (1991) Double Trouble Two (1995) Radio Rondo/Schaffhausen Concert (2008)
with the Barry Guy New Orchestra	Inscape–Tableaux (2000) Oort–Entropy (2004)
with Evan Parker	Atlanta (1986) 50th Birthday Concert (1994) Bush Fire (1995) The Redwood Session (1995) Natives and Aliens (1996) Toward the Margins (1996) At the Vortex (1996) Drawn Inward (1998) After Appleby (1999) Memory/Vision (2002) Birds and Blades (2002) Boustrophedon (2004) The Moment's Energy (2007) Live at Maya Recordings Festival (2011) Music for David Mossman (2016)
with Mats Gustafsson	You Forget to Answer (1994 & 1995) Gryffgryffgryffs (1996)
with Marilyn Crispell	Cascades (1993) Odyssey (1990) Ithaca (2003) Phases of the Night (2007) Deep Memory (2015)
with Cecil Taylor	Nailed (1990) Melancholy (1990)
with Bill Dixon	Vade Mecum (1993) Vade Mecum II (1993)
with Roscoe Mitchell	Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (2004)
Related articles	Spontaneous Music Ensemble

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