My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.

His family later moved to Harlem New York City when he was about 7. He was one of four featured musicians in the Canadian documentary Imagine the Sound (along with Cecil Taylor Archie Shepp and Paul Bley) 1981. He played the trumpet flugelhorn and piano often using electronic delay and reverberation as part of his trumpet playing.

Bill Dixon (October 5 1925 – June 16 2010) was an American musician composer visual artist and educator. This article is about the American trumpeter/composer: for the designer of board games see Bill Dixon (game designer).