Anthony Braxton /Jazz, Avant-Garde/

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Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer, multi-reedist and pianist. He has created a large body of highly complex work. Much of Braxton's music is jazz oriented, but he has also been active in free improvisation and orchestral music, and has written operas. Among the vast array of instruments he utilizes are the flute; the sopranino, soprano, 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." Braxton's music is highly theoretical and mystically influenced, and he is the author of multiple volumes explaining his theories and pieces—such as the philosophical three-volume Triaxium Writings and the five-volume Composition Notes, both published by Frog Peak Music. While his compositions and improvisations can be characterized as avant garde, many of his pieces have a swing feel and rhythmic angularity that are overtly indebted to Charlie Parker and the Bebop tradition.

[1976] Creative Orchestra Music



Review by Scott Yanow :
This is one of Braxton's most interesting recordings. Six of his compositions are performed by groups ranging from 15-20 pieces and featuring such soloists as trumpeters Cecil Bridgewater, Leo Smith, Kenny Wheeler and Jon Faddis, baritonist Bruce Johnstone, trombonist George Lewis, reed player Roscoe Mitchell, bassist Dave Holland, pianist Muhal Richard Abrams and Braxton himself. There is a lot of variety on this set. One of the pieces finds Braxton combining free elements with a Sousa-type march while another one looks toward Ellington. There are quite a few memorable moments on this program.


Tracks:
Piece one (5.10)
Piece two (7:36)
Piece three (6:43)
Piece four (6:26)
Piece five (7:19)
Piece six (6:40)

Credits:
Anthony Braxton - saxophone alto, clarinette basse
Roscoe Mitchell - saxophone soprano
Seldon Powell - saxophone alto, clarinette
Ronald Bridgewater - saxophone tenor, clarinette
Bruce Johnstone - clarinette basse
Kenny Wheeler - trompette
Cecil Bridgewater - trompette
Jon Faddis - trompette
Leo Smith - trompette
George Lewis - trombonne
Garrett List - trombonne
Jack Jeffers - trombonne
Jonathan Dorn - tuba
Richard Teitelbaum - synthetiseur
Muhal Richard Abrams - piano
Frederick Rzewski - piano
Dave Holland - contrebasse
Warren Smith - batterie
Barry Altschul - percussions
Philip Wilson - percussions

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