title: Vade Mecum
text: # Vade Mecum
  
  Vade Mecum is an album by American jazz trumpeter Bill Dixon recorded in 1993 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | |
  | The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz | |
  | The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide | |
  
  In his review for AllMusic, Brian Olewnick states "The expansiveness and airiness of the sound here is one of this record's most striking qualities."
  
  The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings called "Anamorphosis" "one of Dixon's most thoughtful conceptions," and commented: "Inside almost all of Dixon's small group recordings there is a dark pressure, like the imprint of a much larger composition that has been denied full expression. That is profoundly evident on Vade Mecum."
  
  ## Track listing
  
      All compositions by Bill Dixon
  * "Moment" - 4:24
  * "Anamorphosis" - 12:29
  * "Viale Nino Bixio 20" - 9:17
  * "Pellucity"- 9:04
  * "Vade Mecum" - 15:52
  * "Twice Upon a Time" - 13:12
  * "Acanthus" - 13:25
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Bill Dixon - trumpet, flugelhorn
  * Barry Guy, William Parker - bass
  * Tony Oxley - percussion
  