Jazz Articles about Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton - Joelle Léandre: Duo (Heidelberg Loppem) 2007

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 10, 2010

Pierre Boulez ha scritto che “l'opera non esiste se non nell'imprevedibile che diviene necessità". Il che pare ben adattarsi all'incontro (che ha avuto un solo precedente discografico, Ensemble (Victoriaville) 1988, in occasione del sesto Festival International de Musique Actuelle a Victoriaville, Canada) fra Joelle Léandre ed Anthony Braxton. Tre momenti improvvisativi, dei quali due estremamente estesi, incisi a Loppem, uno sperduto paesino alle porte di Bruges: di rado, va detto subito, Braxton è stato così lirico e persino appassionato. Lontano ...

Time and Anthony Braxton

by Kurt Gottschalk
February 27, 2010

Time and Anthony Braxton Stuart Broomer Softcover; 146 pages ISBN: 1551281449 Mercury Press 2009

The Anthony Braxton aesthetic is a lot to comprehend--the man has written pieces to be performed by orchestras on different planets, so it's understandable if the vision is a little daunting. And it's also understandable that the two primary works on the man's music should find ways to constrain their efforts: Graham Lock, in 1988's Forces ...

Anthony Braxton: Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 9, 2010

Ecco la riedizione importante di un disco che vede l'incontro raro di due personalità del jazz contemporaneo, in un momento di piena creatività. Anthony Braxton, giunto nel 1989 al culmine della sapida esperienza in quartetto con Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser e Gerry Hemingway. Tony Oxley, che dopo essere stato protagonista della fervida stagione creativa europea, si accingeva alle collaborazioni rilevanti con Cecil Taylor e con Bill Dixon. Accanto all'impegno con il quartetto, Braxton coltivava con curiosità indagatrice esperienze diverse, come ...

Anthony Braxton / Joelle Leandre: Duo (Heidelberg Loppem) 2007

by Glenn Astarita
December 29, 2009

Two masters of improvisation and innovation realign for a series of three duet pieces, spanning two discs, captured live at the Heidelberg Cafe in Belgium. Pulling out the proverbial stops as contrasts abound, Anthony Braxton switch-hits on reeds while bassist Joëlle Léandre delivers contrapuntal responses amid the duo's role-reversal undertakings.

It would normally equate to a challenge, specifically in these rather adventurous improv settings, but it's a continual and rather swerving plot, defined by Braxton and Léandre's serrated ...

Anthony Braxton: Creative Orchestra (Koln) 1978

by Troy Collins
December 26, 2009

The 1970s were an exceedingly fertile time period for composer Anthony Braxton, whose considerable output was primarily documented by Arista Records, including his Creative Orchestra Music, which encapsulated the entire history of jazz--from Scott Joplin to Albert Ayler. One of these albums, the seminal Creative Orchestra Music 1976, was recently reissued as part of Mosaic Records' Braxton box set. Recorded live in Koln, Germany, on May 12, 1978, Hatology's double disc reissue, Creative Orchestra (Koln) 1978, presents interesting contrasts to ...

Anthony Braxton: Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989

by Glenn Astarita
June 27, 2009

Multi-reed artist and modern visionary, Anthony Braxton's output for the Swiss record label symbolizes his influential methodologies while residing as some of his finest work ever. This reissue of the 1990 Hat Hut Records release is a tour de force featuring British free-jazz drummer Tony Oxley's distinct mode of attack and Austrian bassist Adelhard Roidinger. The program is a study in geometrically designed jazz frameworks, spanning linear and spherical movements, augmented by intersecting sub-themes.

Braxton's spiraling passages consist ...

Anthony Braxton: Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989

by Troy Collins
May 1, 2009

Responsible for some of the most esoteric and uncompromising music of the past four decades, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader Anthony Braxton is enjoying a resurgence in popularity, due in part to the critical acclaim afforded former students and current sidemen like Taylor Ho Bynum and Mary Halvorson.

Braxton's work is one of constant evolution; each passing decade bears new modes of expression. His Falling Water Musics were preceded by Ghost Trance Music in the nineties and the ground-breaking ...