Big Top (album)

Big Top is the second album by American jazz drummer Whit Dickey, which was recorded in 1999 and released on Wobbly Rail, a short-lived imprint started by Merge Records/Superchunk principal Mac McCaughan.[1] For this record, Dickey expanded to a quartet consisting of the trio with whom he recorded Transonic, with the addition of guitarist Joe Morris. They played Eric Dolphy composition "The Prophet", from the album At the Five Spot, and Thelonious Monk's "Skippy".[2]

Big Top
Studio album by
Whit Dickey
Released2000
RecordedNovember 20, 1999
StudioHillside Sound, Englewood, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length52:33
LabelWobbly Rail
ProducerWhit Dickey, Mac McCaughan
Whit Dickey chronology
Transonic
(1998)		 Big Top
(2000)		 Life Cycle
(2001)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes that "the leader can sound hyperactive and unreflective, but there is no mistaking the power of his playing."[3] The JazzTimes review by Peter Margasak states "With Brown's alto saxophone imbued with melancholia, his upper register peregrinations full of piercing sobs, and Morris peeling off skeins of tunefully cascading notes, the rhythm section caresses and prods things along with constant shape-shifting; in particular, Dickey's gentle cymbal play is a marvel of coloristic and rhythmic variety."[4]

Track listing
All compositions by Whit Dickey except as indicated
  1. "Big Top" – 7:58
  2. "The Prophet" (Eric Dolphy) – 11:22
  3. "Skippy" (Thelonious Monk) – 9:53
  4. "The Inmortals" – 23:20

Personnel

References
  1. Whit Dickey at AUM Fidelity
  2. Original Liner Notes by Whit Dickey
  3. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 401. ISBN 0140515216.
  4. Big Top review by Peter Margasak at JazzTimes
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