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Anthony Braxton - Impressions

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Anthony Braxton play Impressions - John Coltrane - Woodstock Jazz Festival

Woodstock Jazz Festival - Impressions

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Woodstock Jazz Festival Impressions the song is you Chick Corea Anthony Braxton Jack DeJohnette Miroslav Vitous ... Woodstock Jazz Festival Impressions the song is you Chick Corea Anthony Braxton Jack DeJohnette...

Anthony Braxton Quartet 1981 Hamburg

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1981 Hamburg/Germany Anthony Braxton sx, Ray Anderson, Hugh Ragin tpt, Marilyn Crispell p

Anthony Braxton, William Parker, Hamid Drake

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Anthony Braxton, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Blue Note, Milano 2007

Anthony Braxton 12+1tet, 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006

Anthony Braxton 12+1tet, 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (06:00)

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Anthony Braxton Biography

Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist, and philosopher. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s. Among the array of instruments he plays are the flute; the sopranino, soprano, C-Melody, F alto, E-flat alto, baritone, bass, and contrabass saxophones; and the E-flat, B-flat, and contrabass clarinets.

Critic Chris Kelsey writes that "Although Braxton exhibited a genuine — if highly idiosyncratic — ability to play older forms (influenced especially by saxophonists Warne Marsh, John Coltrane, Paul Desmond, and Eric Dolphy), he was never really accepted by the jazz establishment, due to his manifest infatuation with the practices of such non-jazz artists as John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Many of the mainstream's most popular musicians (Wynton Marsalis among them) insisted that Braxton's music was not jazz at all. Whatever one calls it, however, there is no questioning the originality of his vision; Anthony Braxton created music of enormous sophistication and passion that was unlike anything else that had come before it."

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Anthony Braxton's Best Songs

  • 1. 138a Ballade
  • 2. Brilliant Corners
  • 3. Reflections
  • 4. Skippy
  • 5. Played Twice
  • 6. Composition 40 B
  • 7. Composition 40 (O)
  • 8. Composition 6 C
  • 9. Four In One
  • 10. Ask Me Now
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Anthony Braxton Discography

Anthony Braxton albums.

  • 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (disc 1) - 03/04/2007 (Firehouse 12/US)
  • 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (disc 2) - 03/04/2007 (Firehouse 12/US)
  • 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (disc 3) - 03/04/2007 (Firehouse 12/US)
  • 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (disc 4) - 03/04/2007 (Firehouse 12/US)
  • 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (disc 5) - 03/04/2007 (Firehouse 12/US)
  • 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (disc 6) - 03/04/2007 (Firehouse 12/US)
  • 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (disc 7) - 03/04/2007 (Firehouse 12/US)
  • 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (disc 8) - 03/04/2007 (Firehouse 12/US)
  • 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (disc 9) - 03/04/2007 (Firehouse 12/US)
  • 23 Standards Quartet (disc 1) - 06/2004 (Leo Records/GB)
  • 23 Standards Quartet (disc 2) - 06/2004 (Leo Records/GB)
  • 23 Standards Quartet (disc 3) - 06/2004 (Leo Records/GB)
  • 23 Standards Quartet (disc 4) - 06/2004 (Leo Records/GB)
  • Six Compositions (GTM) 2001 (disc 1) - (Rastascan Records/US)
  • Six Compositions (GTM) 2001 (disc 2) - (Rastascan Records/US)
  • Six Compositions (GTM) 2001 (disc 3) - (Rastascan Records/US)
  • Six Compositions (GTM) 2001 (disc 4) - (Rastascan Records/US)
  • Prag 1984 (Quartet Performance) - (Sound Aspects/DE)
  • In the Tradition, Volume 2 - (Inner City Records/US)
  • Saxophone Improvisations Series F (disc 1) - 25/02/1972 (America Records/FR)
  • Saxophone Improvisations Series F (disc 2) - 25/02/1972 (America Records/FR)

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