TAO Forms is a new recording label devoted to jazz of an elevated & enlightened nature. Drummer–improviser–composer Whit Dickey is the founder & creative director of this fresh endeavor. It was launched in May 2020 with 
The Piano Equation by Matthew Shipp. TAO Forms features the work of both established masters and deeply gifted next generation devotees of The Music.

  • Fay Victor / Herbie Nichols SUNG – Life Is Funny That Way
  • James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet – For Mahalia, With Love
  • Brandon López – vilevilevilevilevilevilevile
  • Whit Dickey Quartet – Root Perspectives
  • Kirk Knuffke Trio – Gravity Without Airs
  • Whit Dickey Quartet – Astral Long Form: Staircase In Space
  • Michael Bisio Quartet – MBefore
  • Matthew Shipp – Codebreaker
  • Whit Dickey / William Parker / Matthew Shipp – Village Mothership
  • James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet – Jesup Wagon
  • Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp / Whit Dickey – Garden of Jewels
  • Tani Tabbal Trio – Now Then
  • Whit Dickey Trio – Expanding Light
  • Matthew Shipp – The Piano Equation