Sequenza21's Trevor Hunter likes the music from Bill Dixon's Tapestries for Small Orchestra:
For Phrygian II—which might be Tapestries' standout track, if not for the fact there are several other deserving candidates—Lomon, Filiano, and Smith go absolutely buck wild on their instruments while the winds envelop their delirious frenzy with a low, soft attack that nonetheless exhibits such pointed power as to completely overwhelm everything else.
Although I still enjoy Dixon's prior album 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur, Tapestries leaves me cold even with five trumpeters on the album. Fanfare music this isn't.
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