An early high point in Dixon's career was playing a concert with Duke Ellington when she was about 25 years old.
[3] Groups in which Dixon has played include the Neo-Bass Ensemble and Quartette Indigo (with her violinist sister, Gayle).
[1] Her own group, the Akua Dixon String Ensemble, has accompanied Frank Foster, Antonio Hart, Jimmy Heath, Carmen McRae, Pharoah Sanders, Woody Shaw, and Buster Williams, among other jazz artists.
[5] Recordings on which Dixon played include the soundtrack of the film School Daze and "Fire and Ice".
[1] With the support of a Rockefeller grant, Dixon composed The Opera of Marie Laveau in the late 1980s.