Akua Dixon has been at the forefront of improvising string players since 1973. She is the first cellist to win the Downbeat Critics Poll. A multi laureate of the National Endowment for the Arts in composition and performance, Akua is considered “amongst the treasures of contemporary jazz” (The Star-Ledger).
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NPR Presents: Akua Dixon at Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival
Plea for Peace
performed by Quartette Indigo
Circling
for cello orchestra
one of New York’s leading jazz musicians”
The New York Times
“highly imaginative and beautifully textured arrangements
The Washington Post
