Welcome to AMN Celebrates Braxton 75, a multipart series focused on the work of American composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton. Braxton, who in 2020 will be celebrating his seventy-fifth birthday, is one of the most important and influential creative minds of the past fifty years. Each week this series will feature three to four links of live performances, interviews and articles found on the web that should be of interest to both the curious and the longtime explorers of Braxton’s music.
We begin this week with a set from the Anthony Braxton Diamond Curtain Wall Quartet in Budapest from 2015. The group features Braxton’s computer music patch with Braxton on reeds, Ingrid Laubrock – tenor and soprano saxophones, Taylor Ho Bynum – brass and Mary Halvarson on guitar. I really like this video not just for the great performance but also for how it was filmed. I sure wish I could turn on my TV set and see this on one of the channels.
As we are getting near the end of this series I realized I hadn’t posted any of Braxton’s writing so here is a short essay titled “ALLEGORY AND FORM”
We end this week with a stunning audio only set from Anthony Braxton and Muhal Richard Abrams from Chicago in 1977.
Join us again next week for the final post of AMN Celebrates Braxton 75.
Chris De Chiara
Avant Music News 