Jazz Articles about Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997: Volume 3

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 5, 2007

Si potrebbe iniziare con una semplice equazione: il materiale registrato dal nonetto allo Yoshi’s sta al Braxton degli anni Novanta, come i tre album registrati dal quartetto “classico” (Crispell, Hemingway, Dresser) durante il tour inglese (London, Coventry, Birmingham) stanno al Braxton degli anni Ottanta. Medesimo lo spirito enciclopedico che anima i due titanici progetti discografici; molto simile l’atmosfera da “punto e a capo” che si sente vibrare all’interno delle registrazioni; equivalente, infine, il valore periodizzante che i sei doppi, ovviamente ...

Anthony Braxton: 4 Compositions (Ulrichsberg) 2005. Phonomanie VIII (4 CD)

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 5, 2007

Italo Calvino, parlando di Gadda in una delle sue lezioni americane, affermava: “egli vede il mondo come un ‘sistema di sistemi’, in cui ogni sistema singolo condiziona gli altri e ne è condizionato”. Quale migliore osservazione per tentare di spiegare la musica attuale di Anthony Braxton? Il compositore chicagoano continua a riassemblare una mole di materiale enorme, che si espande man mano che il suo autore la revisiona, la arricchisce di nuove interpretazioni, la trasforma metodologicamente in una moltiplicazione di ...

Anthony Braxton / Joe Fonda: Duets 1995

by Troy Collins
June 3, 2007

Originally released as 10 Compositions (Duets) 1995 on the Konnex label, this reissue is one of a series of duets with bass players recorded by multi-instrumentalist / composer Anthony Braxton in the early 1990s. Preceded by 8 Duets, Hamburg 1991 (Music & Arts), with the late Peter Niklas Wilson, and Duets 1993 (Music & Arts), with Mario Pavone, Braxton and bassist Joe Fonda follow a similar format on this intimate session.

Like Braxton's previous album with Pavone, Duets ...

Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 4 - May 20, 2007

by John Kelman
May 22, 2007

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3| Day 4 | Day 5

Where else but at the Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoraville (FIMAV) could you see a cutting edge artist in more than one context, sometimes on the same day? At the 2005 edition of FIMAV, reedman/composer Anthony Braxton could be found improvising with guitarist Fred Frith, sitting in with noise improv group Wolf Eyes and debuting a new extended compositional work with his own sextet. ...

Anthony Braxton Sextet +1 at the Iridium, NYC

by John Sharpe
May 22, 2007

Anthony Braxton Sextet+1The IridiumNew York CityMarch 28-April 1, 2007 Democracy is alive and well, or at least it was on the stage of the Iridium under the beneficent gaze of maestro Anthony Braxton at the end of March 2007. While Braxton is responsible for choosing the primary compositions for his ensemble and starting and finishing proceedings, guided by his giant hourglass, he bestows equal authority upon his collaborators as to how they choose to navigate ...

Anthony Braxton: 9 Compositions

by Marc Medwin
April 9, 2007

It is the MO of this listener/writer, or, as Anthony Braxton puts it, this “friendly experiencer, to attempt to bring the reader into individual moments of a performance. The present set does not allow such an approach, or, rather, it renders the approach superfluous. Here, we are presented with almost ten hours of music in which, Braxton explains, one measure can represent an entire composition. It is ironic, given the diversity of material and instrumentation employed over these four evenings, ...

Anthony Braxton & Fred Frith: Duo (Victoriaville)

by Kurt Gottschalk
December 10, 2006

Anthony Braxton and Fred Frith each have about as close a relationship to the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville as just about any non-Canadians. The first release on Victo, the label run by the producers of the annual Canadian festival, was a guitar duo with Frith and Rene Lussier; the second was a duet between Braxton and Derek Bailey. Until this year, each had released three discs on the label. But 2005 was the Year of Braxton and ...