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Anthony Braxton

Friday 11 January 2008 22:30-23:30 (Radio 3)

Critic Brian Morton joins Alyn Shipton to explore the recordings of saxophonist, improviser and composer Anthony Braxton

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

DISC 1
Title To Composer John Cage
Artist Anthony Braxton
Composer Braxton
Album For Alto
Label Delmark
Number 420/421 Track 2

Personnel: AB, as; autumn 1968/summer 1969.

DISC 2
Title Composition No 96
Artist Anthony Braxton
Composer Braxton
Album 4 (Ensemble) Compositions - 1992
Label Leo
Number 120124-2 Track 2

DISC 3
Title Composition 40 (b)
Artist Anthony Braxton
Composer Braxton
Album Quartet (Dortmund) 1976
Label Hatology
Number 557 Track 4

DISC 4
Title I Love You
Artist Anthony Braxton
Composer Porter
Album Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994 Vol 2
Label Leo
Number 297/298 CD1 Track 1

DISC 5
Title The Bell
Artist Anthony Braxton
Composer Leo Smith 
Album Three Compositions of the New Jazz
Label Delmark
Number 415 Track 3

Personnel: Leo Smith, t, perc; AB, ss, cl, fl; Muhal Richard Abrams, p, as, cello; Leroy Jenkins, vn, vla, recorder, perc. 10 April 1968.

DISC 6
Title Donna Lee
Artist Anthony Braxton
Composer Davis
Album Donna Lee
Label America
Number AM 6122 Track 1

Personnel: AB, as, cl, fl, contra- bcl; Michael Smith, p; Peter Warren, b; Oliver Johnson, d. Paris, 18 Feb 1972.

DISC 7
Title Composition 23 J
Artist Anthony Braxton
Composer Braxton
Album Quartet (Dortmund) 1976
Label Hatology
Number 557 Track 1 (part 2)

Personnel: AB, bass sax, ss, as, cl, Eb cl; contrabsss cl; George Lewis, tb; Dave Holland b; Barry Altschul, d. Dortmund 31 Oct 1976

DISC 8
Title Composition 94 Section A (excerpt)
Artist Anthony Braxton
Composer Braxton
Album Composition 94 for Three Instrumentalists 1980
Label Leo / Golden Years of New Jazz
Number GY3 Track 1

Personnel: AB, sopranino, ss, as, ts, contrabcl; Ray Anderson, alto and tenor tb; c; slide t; James Emery, g, elg, electronics. Bologna 20 April 1980.

DISC 9
Title Composition 94 Section A (excerpt - second set)
Artist Anthony Braxton
Composer Braxton
Album Composition 94 for Three Instrumentalists 1980
Label Leo / Golden Years of New Jazz
Number GY3 Track 2

Personnel: as above.

DISC 10
Title Composition 96
Artist Anthony Braxton with Composers and Improvisers Orchestra
Composer Braxton
Album Composition 96
Label Leo
Number CD 169 Track 1

Personnel: AB, cond; Dave Scott, James Knapp, t; Richard Reid, flh; Julian Priester, Scott Reeves, tb; Bob Davies, eng horn; Rick Byrnes, tu; Denise Pool, Rebecca Morgan, Nancy Hergerud, fl; Aileen Munger, Laurri Whig, ob; Marlene Weaver, bn; Ray Downey, bcl; Bill Smith, Eb cl; Paul Pearce bbcl; Denny Goodhew, as; Julian Smedley, Metheze Pedersen, Jeannine Davis, Libby Poole, Jereon Van Tyn, Sandra Guy, Backy Liversey, Mary Jacobsen, v; Betty Agent, Jean Ward, Sam Williams, Beatrice Dolf, vla; Page Smith-Weaver, Scott Threadgold, Marjorie Partington, cello; Motter Dean, harp; Scott Weaver, Deborah De Loria, b; Ed Hartman, Matt Komieriowsky, perc. Seattle, 30 May 1981.

DISC 11
Title Composition 40 (O)
Artist Anthony Braxton
Composer Braxton
Album Quartet (London) Label Leo Number 200/201 CD 1 Track 3

Personnel: AB, as, sopranino, C-Mel; Marilyn Crispell, p; Mark Dresser, b; Gerry Hemingway, d. Bloomsbury Theatre, London, 13 Nov 1985

DISC 12
Title The Honker
Artist Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker, Paul Rutherford
Composer Braxton, Parker, Rutherford
Album Trio (London) 1993
Label Leo Number 197 Track 1

Personnel: Rutherford, tb; Parker, ss, ts; Braxton as, cl. 22 May 1993 (Bloomsbury Theatre).

DISC 13
Title Encore
Artist Anthony Braxton, Richard Teitelbaum
Composer Braxton / Teitelbaum
Album Live at Merkin Hall
Label Music and Arts
Number 949 Track 3

Personnel: Anthony Braxton, fl, sopranino, ss, sop cl, cl,contra bcl; Richard Teitelbaum, kb, electronics. 28 April 1994.

DISC 14
Title Black Monday
Artist Anthony Braxton
Composer HIll
Album Ten Compositions (Quartet) 2000
Label CIMP
Number 225 Track 4

Personnel: Braxton as, fl; Kevin O'Neil, g; Andy Eulau, b; Kevin Norton, d. 19 May 2000 Middletown CT.

DISC 15
Title Composition 351 Part 2
Artist Anthony Braxton
Composer Braxton
Album At Iridium
Label Firehouse
Number FH 12-04-03-001 CD 2 Track 2

Personnel: Anthony Braxton, as, ss,s sopranino, cl, Eb cl;Taylor Ho Bynum, c, fl, trumpbone, piccolo t, bass t, mutes, and shell; Andrew Raffo Dewar, sop, c-mel, cl; James Fei, as ss, bcl; Mary Halvorson, g; Steve Lehman, as, ss; Nicole Mitchell, fl, alto fl, bass fl, p, v; Jessica Pavone, vla, vn; Reut Regev, tb, flugelbone; Jay Rozen, tu, euphonium, mutes, toys; Sara Schoenbeck, bn, suona; Aaron Siegel, perc; Carl Testa, b,cl. Sprinh 2006.

DISC 16
Title All The Things You Are
Artist Anthony Braxton
Composer Kern Album Live at Willisau
Label Intakt
Number 126 Track 4

Personnel: AB, as.


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