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Dickie Landry

Musician, photographer, artist and farmer are some the guises formed by the inimitable Dickie Landry. Landry moved to New York in 1969, becoming an integral member of the Philip Glass Ensemble and part of SoHo\'s burgeoning avant-garde art scene alongside artists Robert Rauschenberg, fellow Louisiana-native Keith Sonnier and Gordon-Matta Clark, co-founder of experimental gastronomic clubhouse Food with Landry’s then wife, Tina Girouard

Musician, photographer, artist and farmer are some the guises formed by the inimitable Dickie Landry. Landry moved to New York in 1969, becoming an integral member of the Philip Glass Ensemble and part of SoHo\'s burgeoning avant-garde art scene alongside artists Robert Rauschenberg, fellow Louisiana-native Keith Sonnier and Gordon-Matta Clark, co-founder of experimental gastronomic clubhouse Food with Landry’s then wife, Tina Girouard

4 Cuts Placed In "A First Quarter"
4 Cuts Placed In "A First Quarter", the companion piece to Solos, is the sonic result of a collaboration with artist Lawrence Weiner. As Landry remembers, “I was working for Keith Sonnier at Castelli Gallery and met Lawrence. He asked ‘can you make a video for me?’ So we did "To and Fro..." At some point he was working on "A First Quarter" (1973) and wanted me to do the music. I said ‘I already have the music.’ He said ‘what do you mean?’ I had recorded several pieces with Kurt Munkcasi and walk…
Fifteen Saxophones
First ever CD reissue of this little known classic from founding Philip Glass Ensemble member Richard 'Dickie' Landry. Following two jazz LPs issued on the Chatham Square label (which he co-ran), Dickie Landry released Fifteen Saxophones, a set of 1974 recordings done with engineer Kurt Munkacsi, on the Northern Lights and Wergo labels in 1978. Fifteen Saxophones simultaneously demonstrates Landry's boundary-pushing saxophone and his understanding of the minimalists' long-form treatises on sound…
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