Chuck Nessa Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 Ed Blackwell and Karl Berger behind and next to the singing Braxton. Impressions is from the Woodstock Jazz Festival - Sept 19, 1981. The whole performance (12:41) is on the second cd from the fest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 Will have to keep an eye out for the set - "Impressions" sounds great with Tony at the helm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarke68 Posted August 26, 2008 Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 Will have to keep an eye out for the set - "Impressions" sounds great with Tony at the helm.It's available on DVD, although it's kinda hard to tell what it is from looking at the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartjewkes Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 Just listened to the 2LP set on America 'Saxophone Improvisations Series F' twice through and I'm blown away. Could it be my favourite Brax so far? The Philip Glass dedicated track on the final side is brilliant. Solo alto minimalism, worrying small phrases, absolute bliss. I am renewed in my Braxton search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartjewkes Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 Just listened to the 2LP set on America 'Saxophone Improvisations Series F' twice through and I'm blown away. Could it be my favourite Brax so far? The Philip Glass dedicated track on the final side is brilliant. Solo alto minimalism, worrying small phrases, absolute bliss. I am renewed in my Braxton search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted October 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 I should be more familiar with that album. I should be more familiar with any of Braxton's solo sax albums. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Clugston Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 Just listened to the 2LP set on America 'Saxophone Improvisations Series F' twice through and I'm blown away. Could it be my favourite Brax so far? The Philip Glass dedicated track on the final side is brilliant. Solo alto minimalism, worrying small phrases, absolute bliss. I am renewed in my Braxton search. A fantastic album. My favourite of the solo sax albums. I recall reading somewhere the engineer was being a real dick during the recording. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Clugston Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 New on Leo: Anthony Braxton Quartet ( Moscow ) 2008 Composition 367b http://www.leorecords.com/?m=select&id=CD_LR_518 "Performed in Moscow on June 29, 2008 with Anthony Braxton on sopranino, soprano, alto saxophone and contrabass clarinet, Taylor Ho Bynum on cornet, flugelhorn, piccolo and bass trumpets, Mary Halvorson on electric guitar and Katherine Young on bassoon, to the ecstatic Russian audience, this is one of the best Mr. Braxton¹s performances ever both in terms of music and quality of recording. If it doesn¹t become an all-time classic I shall swallow my tongue." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarke68 Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 (edited) Just noticed an update to Hathut's website. Willisau (Quartet) 1991 is there on the "upcoming releases" list...right where it's been for the last two years at least. However, there's a change! Now it's on the list twice, and with a footnote: Anthony Braxton · Willisau (Quartet) 1991) re-issue in two 2-CD sets! Giving some credence to my random, unsupported theory that the reason it's taken so long to reissue this one is Werner couldn't figure out how to fit four discs into one of the orange hatOLOGY sleeves. I wonder if it, er...they, will be out in 2009? Edited November 21, 2008 by clarke68 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregK Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 Just noticed an update to Hathut's website. Willisau (Quartet) 1991 is there on the "upcoming releases" list...right where it's been for the last two years at least. However, there's a change! Now it's on the list twice, and with a footnote: Anthony Braxton · Willisau (Quartet) 1991) re-issue in two 2-CD sets! Giving some credence to my random, unsupported theory that the reason it's taken so long to reissue this one is Werner couldn't figure out how to fit four discs into one of the orange hatOLOGY sleeves. I wonder if it, er...they, will be out in 2009? Well, the Steve Lacy/Mal Waldron 4-disc set fits in two sleeves encased in a slip-cover. Why not repeat that packaging? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Clugston Posted November 28, 2008 Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 Some more new releases: Creative Orchestra (Guelph) 2007 on Spool, Quartet (Moscow) 2008 on Leo and now Toronto (Duets) 2007 with Kyle Brenders on Barnyard. And while the big news has been the release of the Mosaic box, 2008 has also seen Beyond Quantum on Tzadik, Nine Compositions (DVD) 2003, Quartet (GTM) 2006 on Important, Four Improvisations (Duo) 2007 with Joe Morris and the 9-CD Piano Music (1968-2000) box featuring Genevieve Foccroulle. Of the new stuff, I’ve only heard the Moscow set, a Diamond Curtain Wall date with Braxton on reeds and laptop, Taylor Ho Bynum on brass, Mary Halvorson on guitar and Katherine Young on bassoon. Fantastic stuff, rivalling Quartet (GTM) 2006 for my favourite Braxton release of 2008. Young has an interesting bassoon sound—it sounds like an arco bass at times. Of the Diamond Curtain Wall releases, I’ve only heard this and the Ulrichsberg date on Leo. How is the Victo and the other Leo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Dorward Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 I've heard the Glasgow one on Leo. It's got its moments, though I didn't find the electronics at all interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Hawkins Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 I think the Victo one is stunning. All of the players are on fire, and I really enjoy the electronics. Nothing but good things to say about it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartjewkes Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 Just got a new Braxton LP from ebay, seems to be a selection of stuff from 1971 on the Italian Giants of Jazz label featuring some quartet tracks, a duo, a solo and 5 tubas! Good buy it now price too. Can't wait for it to come now. Also, incase anyone didn't know, Black Saint have been added to eMusic UK so there's a whole load of Braxton to be had there. I already have the Monk album and the Creative Orchestra album and they are both corking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Clugston Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 Just got a new Braxton LP from ebay, seems to be a selection of stuff from 1971 on the Italian Giants of Jazz label featuring some quartet tracks, a duo, a solo and 5 tubas! Good buy it now price too. Can't wait for it to come now. That's a mid-1980s reissue of half of the tracks that appeared on The Complete Braxton 1971. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartjewkes Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 Just got a new Braxton LP from ebay, seems to be a selection of stuff from 1971 on the Italian Giants of Jazz label featuring some quartet tracks, a duo, a solo and 5 tubas! Good buy it now price too. Can't wait for it to come now. That's a mid-1980s reissue of half of the tracks that appeared on The Complete Braxton 1971. Any good? Hasn't come yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted December 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 Just got a new Braxton LP from ebay, seems to be a selection of stuff from 1971 on the Italian Giants of Jazz label featuring some quartet tracks, a duo, a solo and 5 tubas! Good buy it now price too. Can't wait for it to come now. That's a mid-1980s reissue of half of the tracks that appeared on The Complete Braxton 1971. Any good? Hasn't come yet... It's the material that was left off the Braxton Mosaic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartjewkes Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 I really do want the Braxton Mosaic but can't justify that sort of money for a reissue. I don't mind paying £10-14 for a new artist LP but the vast amount of money that Mosaic charge just doesn't sit well with me even though I am assured that the contents are of the highest quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Clugston Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 This just in from Jazz Loft... (typos aren't my doing - bc) Anthony Braxton Standards (Brussels) 2006 Recorded November 23-26, 2006 live at PP Cafe, Brussels, Belgium. This set comes in an elegant cartboard 6 cds box including a 26 pages booklet with three little essays by italian poet and writer Erika Dagnino: - "Positions for listening" - "Real space and dislocation" - "A possible anthropogony" Detailed bios and quotes by featured musicians and an essay by co-producer Gianni Mimmo of Amirani records. Imported from Italy. ARTISTS Anthony Braxton (saxophones); Alessandro Giachero (piano); Antonio Borghini (double bass); Cristiano Calcagnile (drums) TRACKS CD 1: -FOREST FLOWER(Charles Llooyd) -IT'S YOU OR NO ONE (j.Styne) -DARN THAT DREAM (Van Heusen) -improvisation n.1 -VERY EARLY (Evans) -IF I SHOULD LODE YOU (Robin /Ranger) CD 2: -VIRGO (take 2) (Shorter) -EMBARCADERO (Desmond) -NIGHT DREAMER (Shorter) -IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND (Rodgers/Hart) -FINE AND DANDY (James/Swift) -MONK'S MOOD (Monk) CD 3: -THREE LITTLE WORDS (Ruby) -WAVE (Jobim) -RUBY MY DEAR (Monk) -MEAN TO ME (Waller) -AFTERNOON IN PARIS (Lewis) -WHAT'S NEW (Haggart) CD 4: -ALICE IN WONDERLAND ( F-ain/Hilliard) -AH LEU CHA (Parker) -FOR ALL WE KNOW ( Coots) -Improvisation n0.2 -TADD'S DELIGTH (Dameron) -ALL OF YOU (Porter) CD 5: -I'M OLD FASHIONED (Kern) -EXX-THETICS (Russell) -HOW LITTLE WE KNOW (Springer/Leigh) -OUT TO LUNCH (Dolphy) -EARLY AUTUMN (Herman) -STAR EYES (De Paul) CD 6: -ISRAEL (Carisi) -THESE FOOLISH THINGS (Strachey/Link/Marvell) -Improvisation no.3 -STRIKE UP THE BAND (Gershwin) -YOU'RE MY THRILL ((Clare/Gorney) -VIRGO (take 1) (Shorter) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Is anyone (beyond Bernie Madoff) keeping up with all the Braxton issues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Dorward Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Stuart Broomer, most likely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Many of those would be freebies. I meant regular folks buying the stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Clugston Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 I can't keep up. 2008 releases so far include: Creative Orchestra (Guelph) 2007 (Spool) Quartet (Moscow) 2008 (Leo) Toronto (Duets) 2007 (Barnyard) with Kyle Brenders The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton (Mosaic, 8-CD) Beyond Quantum (Tzadik) Nine Compositions (DVD) 2003 (Rastascan, audio DVD) Quartet (GTM) 2006 (Important, 4-CD) Four Improvisations (Duo) 2007 (Clean Feed, 4-CD) with Joe Morris Piano Music (1968-2000) (Leo, 9-CD, ltd ed) perf. by Genevieve Foccroulle I have Quartet (GTM) 2006 (which is excellent), Nine Compositions (DVD) 2003, the Tzadik (very good) and the excellent Quartet (Moscow) 2008 (Leo). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoppy T. Frog Posted December 20, 2008 Report Share Posted December 20, 2008 (edited) I think I'm going to have to skip this one. The Braxton list linked to the blog of a guy who went to several of those shows, and he thought the whole run would make for a fine single CD. Plus the band is a pickup group of unknown Italians (the blogger was unimpressed by the drummer). Edited December 20, 2008 by Hoppy T. Frog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrugs Posted December 26, 2008 Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 (edited) Is anyone (beyond Bernie Madoff) keeping up with all the Braxton issues? been wondering the same myself. It took me over a year to really absorb some of the Arista material where I was on a personal level with it. I'm on a different continuum right now anyway......... Edited December 26, 2008 by shrugs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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