Anthony Braxton - B-X0 NO-47A (2024) [Hi-Res]

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Title: B-X0 NO-47A
Year Of Release: 1969 / 2024
Label: Charly | BYG
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks) [96kHz/24bit]
Total Time: 38:55
Total Size: 723 / 183 MB
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Tracklist:

01. The Light On The Dalta
02. Simple Like
03. B-X0 NO-47A

Prolific multi-reedist/composer Anthony Braxton is among the most influential jazz artists to emerge from the 20th century. He has engaged in nearly every conceivable area of musical creativity during his extraordinary career. Beginning with jazz's essential rhythmic and textural elements, Braxton combines them with all manner of experimental compositional techniques, from graphic and non-specific notation to serialism to multimedia, electronic, and prodigious use of improvisation. Largely considered a genius, his self-invented, heavily theoretical approach to playing and composing jazz has as much in common with late 20th century classical music as it does jazz, and therefore has alienated some who consider jazz a full remove from European idioms. Further, Braxton has a healthy respect for, and has collaborated with, rock and noise musicians. His genuine -- if highly idiosyncratic -- ability to play older forms (influenced especially by saxophonists Warne Marsh, John Coltrane, Paul Desmond, Charlie Parker, and Eric Dolphy), he has never really been accepted by the jazz establishment due to his manifest infatuation with the practices of such non-jazz artists as John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Some critics have even insisted that Braxton's music is not jazz at all. Whatever one calls it, however, there is no questioning the originality of his vision; Braxton has created music of enormous sophistication and passion that is unlike anything else that has come before it. He is able to fuse jazz's visceral components with contemporary classical music's formal and harmonic methods in an utterly unselfconscious -- and therefore convincing -- way. His best work runs threadlike throughout his career, beginning with the bona fide classic Three Compositions of New Jazz in 1969 (and the solo For Alto in '71), his Creative Orchestra Music and In the Tradition volumes during the '70s, his solo, duo, and quartet work for that included collaborators ranging from Marilyn Crispell, Woody Shaw, Derek Bailey, and Max Roach in the '80s and '90s, as well as his large ensemble recordings in the 21st century that include operas and structured improvisations. His work is on a level of the finest and most forward-thinking art music of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, jazz or classical, including Six Compositions (GTM) 2001, Trio (New Haven) 2013 with Tomas Fujiwara and Tom Rainey, and the large ensemble opera Trillium J in 2016.