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Something Like We Did III
Tim Seibles

(with a quotation from Anthony Braxton as its epigraph, from the day I saw him at the Jazz Festival Willisau in 2013)

#Poetry #TimSeibles #Jazz #Willisau #AnthonyBraxton #GerryHemingway

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160850/something-like-we-did-iii

Anthony Braxton with Robert Schumann String Quartet

#AnthonyBraxton #jazz #StringQuartet #ModernClassicalMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnZOP8ibdr0

#NowPlaying Anthony Braxton - In The Tradition volume 2 (SteepleChase, Denmark 1976).

Anthony Braxton : alto sax & contrabass clarinet
Tete Montoliu : piano
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen : bass
Albert "Tootie" Heath : drums

#AnthonyBraxton #SteepleChaseRecords

Anthony Braxton Solo Concert
Friday, October 6, 2023
8:00 PM 9:00 PM

#AnthonyBraxton #jazz

https://tricentricfoundation.org/events/2023/10/6/anthony-braxton-solo-concert

Warum geht man in Jazzkonzerte? Um unerhörte, bislang ungehörte Musik zu hören...
Anthony Braxton in #Darmstadt: Thunder Music Uraufführung

Stand da gar ein Aufnahmewagen vor der Tür?

#anthonybraxton #braxton #avantgarde #improvisiertemusik #jazz #thundermusic #improvisation #saxophone #composer #modern #jazzfotografie #jazzphotography #schindelbeck #jazzpages #premiere #weltpremiere #uraufführung #Lichtenbergschule #rheinneckar

#NowPlaying Anthony Braxton - Five Pieces 1975 (Arista, 1975).

Great record with Kenny Wheeler (trumpet, flugelhorn), Dave Holland (bass) & Barry Altschul (drums).
Braxton plays alto saxophone, soprano saxophones, clarinet, flute, alto flute & contrabass clarinet.

#AnthonyBraxton #AristaRecords #FreeJazz

Jazztodon artist of the week: Anthony Braxton! One of the consistently most brilliant and innovators composers of experimental music, Braxton has an enormous discography full of inventive and often difficult music. What are some of your favorite (or least favorite?) Braxton pieces or performances?

#jazz #anthonybraxton

#NowPlaying Anthony Braxton - This Time… (Byg Records, France 1970).

Shitty days call for radical measures 🖤

#AnthonyBraxton #BygRecords #FreeJazz

Anthony Braxton · George Lewis "Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker) 1976

#jazz #AnthonyBraxton #GeorgeLewis #CharlieParker

#NowPlaying Anthony Braxton with Muhal Richard Abrams - Duets 1976 (Arista, 1976).

On an Anthony Braxton binge lately - this time his wonderful Duets album with pianist Muhal Richard Abrams.

#AnthonyBraxton #MuhalRichardAbrams #AristaRecords #FreeJazz

#NowPlaying Max Roach featuring Anthony Braxton - Birth And Rebirth (Black Saint, Italy 1978).

Free improvisations by Anthony Braxton (alto, soprano & sopranino saxophones, clarinet) & Max Roach (drums).

Very creative and stimulating music.

#MaxRoach #AnthonyBraxton #BlackSaintRecords #FreeJazz

#NowPlaying Anthony Braxton - For Alto (Delmark Records, 1974).

A fascinating record, the first jazz album (even a double LP, no less) composed solely of solo saxophone improvisations.

This record was ahead of its time when it was released in 1971 ; it still is today.

#AnthonyBraxton #DelmarkRecords #FreeJazz

#AnthonyBraxton on #Paul Desmond: "I have never stopped loving this man’s music. The first thing I recall that struck me about it was his sound. The sound grabbed me. Then, after that, his logic grabbed me - held me in its grip, in fact. I think Paul Desmond’s music is widely misunderstood on many levels. He was fashionable for the wrong reasons and he was hated for the wrong reasons. In retrospect, when I look at his life, his is a kind of . . . what’s the word? Kind of mysterious music, he’s not always there." (from Forces In Motion by Graham Lock, 1988)

https://youtu.be/G1nu_0f7tLI

I'm looking for a brief explanation of Anthony Braxton's hand symbols. Does anyone have it to hand? Is it online?

My sheet music is boxed up for moving, alas.

#AnthonyBraxton

Woody Shaw with Anthony Braxton - "The Iron Men" (1981) #NowPlaying #WoodyShaw #AnthonyBraxton #CecilMcBee #ArthurBlythe #MuhalRichardAbrams #JoeChambers #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtu.be/ZnCUjIvdLUw

Sam Rivers Quartet plus Anthony Braxton solo at Keystone Korner in San Francisco

#SamRivers
#AnthonyBraxton
#KeystoneKornerSanFrancisco

@icastico @vinylrecords Arista-Freedom LPs were so unassuming with those standardised cover designs, it's mind-blowing to think this got artists like #AnthonyBraxton, #AlbertAyler, #CecilTaylor etc out in front of the mainstream, record-buying public in the increasing staid middle 70s

Anthony Braxton and Dave Holland
2000

#AnthonyBraxton and #DaveHolland

In this thread https://mastodon.online/@quatrezoneilles/109564234393290121 I mentioned that #AnthonyBraxton 's composition processes seem more successful with complex music than simpler stuff.

But then he appreciates all kinds of music! Some years ago at a festival in... Italy? he reminisced about his stay in the Sam and Dave touring band and did dance steps he'd had to learn then. Wish I'd been there!

The amazing Diamond Curtain Wall Music is based on graphic scores, but what you hear is people fused in a common musical goal.

Anthony Braxton and Dave Holland #AnthonyBraxton #DaveHolland #Jazz #Music #Musicians