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Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto.
1995: Anthony Braxton's Charlie Parker Project 1993 (hatART) 1996: Piano Quartet, Yoshi's 1994 (Music & Arts) 1996: Composition 192 (Leo) with Lauren Newton. 1996: Tentet (New York) 1996 (Braxton House) 1996: Duet: Live at Merkin Hall (Music & Arts) with Richard Teitelbaum. 1996: Sextet (Istanbul) 1996 (Braxton House)
Anthony Braxton. Born 4 June 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Influential experimental composer and saxophonist. Member of the AACM where he was influenced by mentors Muhal Richard Abrams and Roscoe Mitchell and friends Joseph Jarman, Wadada Leo Smith and Leroy Jenkins, among others.
Jun 17, 2021 · The saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton has been a galvanizing figure in American music for more than 50 years – and at 76, he's definitely not slowing down. Braxton has...
May 31, 2024 · Anthony Braxton is an American composer and woodwind improviser, one of the most prolific artists in free jazz. Braxton, who named John Coltrane, Warne Marsh, and Paul Desmond among his inspirations, began playing alto saxophone in his teens and continued to play in a U.S. Army band.
The Tri-Centric Foundation is a non-profit organization which supports the work and legacy of American composer and musician Anthony Braxton. Our primary activities are preservation and dissemination of his scores, recordings, and writings, production of performances, and pedagogy.
Jun 15, 2021 · The lazy cliche about Anthony Braxton is that he’s a joyless intellectual, approaching music like a chess master when he should be kicking out the jams. The composer and saxophonist, who recently turned 76, has been combatting such reductive thinking for much of his career.
Jun 24, 2024 · Anthony Braxton is widely and critically acclaimed as a seminal figure in the music of the late 20th century. His work, both as a saxophonist and a composer, has broken new conceptual and technical ground in the trans-African and trans-European (a.k.a. "jazz" and "American Experimental") musical traditions in North America as defined by master ...
Anthony Braxton (born 1945), the Chicago-born composer and multi-instrumentalist, is recognized as one of the most important musicians, educators, and creative thinkers of the past 50 years.
Jan 14, 2021 · Anthony Braxton: A Grand Thinker Of American Music. October 15, 2011 • The rap on the composer and saxophonist, now 66, has always been that his music is difficult. But Braxton himself...
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