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For Alto

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Dedicated to multi-instrumentalist Jack Gell / To composer John Cage / To artist Murray De Pillars / To pianist Cecil Taylor / Dedicated to Ann and Peter Allen / Dedicated to Susan Axelrod / To my friend Kenny McKenny / Dedicated to multi-instrumentalist Leroy Jenkins

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Anthony Braxton: For Alto

Read "For Alto" reviewed by Robert Spencer


At long last. For Alto always seems to arrive late: it wasn't released until a few years after it was recorded, and it only now appears on CD. Braxton has, of course, other solo recordings on CD, but this one is different: it was first. Not just first for him, but first for anyone. Before this, ...

Album

For Alto

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2000

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Anthony Braxton: For Alto

Read "For Alto" reviewed by Derek Taylor


Like any other sub-genre in jazz music free jazz is marked by a timeline of precedent setting events. Many of these moments inevitably center on recordings: Cecil Taylor’s Jazz Advance, Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz, John Coltrane’s Ascension, Albert Ayler’s Spiritual Unity. In the case of the AACM two recordings by members of the association’s roster are ...

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For Alto

Label: RCA
Released: 1969


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