Dickie Landry

about

Saxophonist and flutist Dickie Landry's story is about as far-flung as one can imagine, moving from white R&B in the American South to improvised and contemporary minimal / process music in New York during the 1970s, all the while hanging around with the primary figures in New York's post-minimal and concept art scene. Though less visible from the 1980s onward, Landry has recently returned to his Louisiana homeland and splits his time between playing in a popular swamp-pop band and reinvestigating what made his playing so desirable to people like Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson. Landry’s own music from the 1970s is a fascinating amalgam of minimalism, free jazz, and psychedelia, indicative of the kind of omnivorous creativity that pervaded Downtown Manhattan at that time. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

top songs

albums

Hang The Rich

Fifteen Saxophones

Having Been Built on Sand

4 Cuts Placed In "A First Quarter"

Solos

Hang the Rich - Single

Fifteen Saxophones [1977]

Solo

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Trah-La-La-La, Louisiana: Oxford American Southern Music Issue

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Dickie Landry: Fifteen Saxophones

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Solos (feat. Richard Peck, Robert Prado, Rusty Gilder, Jon Smith, Alan Braufman & David Lee)

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Fifteen Saxaphones

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