Bill Dixon & Tony Oxley / Isfahan: Dome of the Sheikh Lutfullah

Music: Bill Dixon, trumpet and Tony Oxley, percussion. Palimpsest, Track 9 from Papyrus Vol. 1

Images are from the Dome of Sheikh Lutfullah in Isfahan, Iran. It was built in the Safavid period of Persian history between 1603 - 1618.

"...how [form] is created, and what supports it, are questions of which the casual eye is unconscious, as it is meant to be, lest it's attention should wander from the pageant of color and pattern. Color and pattern are a commonplace in Persian architecture. But here they have a quality which must astonish the European, not because they infringe what he thought was his own monopoly, but because he can previously have had no idea that abstract pattern was capable of so profound a splendor." Robert Byron, The Road To Oxiana (1937)

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[zorn1111]

Rediscovering Dixon here on youtube. So many of these recordings were and still are so hard to come by. Thanks so much for posting these. It's a shame that Dixon never really got the recognition he so deserved as evidenced in this recording