Dom Minasi on Anthony Braxton: Anthony and Me

From All About Jazz:

It must have been sometime in the ’70s that I first heard the name Anthony Braxton. I had no idea who he was except I heard he was really different and different appealed to me. Being married at the time with two small children, I didn’t have extra money to spend on records or even listen to the radio that much, but the few times I did, I heard “Ornithology” from In The Tradition(Steeplechase, 1974), with Anthony Braxton (contrabass and clarinet), Tete Montoliu (piano), Niels-Henning, Ørsted Pedersen (double bass) and Albert “Tootie” Heath (drums), and it was an awe-inspiring record, as was Five Easy Pieces (Arista, 1975). I immediately understood the direction he was going and it was a place to which I also wanted to go.