Anthony Braxton – Performance (Quartet 1979)

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Anthony Braxton – Performance (Quartet) 1979

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Artist……………: Anthony Braxton

Album…………….: Performance (Quartet) 1979

Genre…………….: Jazz

Source……………: NMR

Year……………..: 1990

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Posted by…………: persona.blah on 17/07/2016

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Tracklisting

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1. Anthony Braxton – Part 1 [36:47]

2. Anthony Braxton – Part 2 [34:26]

Playing Time………: 01:11:14

Total Size………..: 131.99 MB

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Hat Hut Records ?– hat Hut NINETEEN (2R19) 1981

Free Jazz, Free Improvisation

The PERFORMANCE FOR QUARTET includes the compositions 69.C, 69.E, 69.G, 40.F,m 69.F, 23.G & 40.I. Recorded live at Willisau September 1, 1979

Anthony Braxton ?– Performance (Quartet) 1979

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hat ART ?– hat ART CD 6044

CD, Album, Reissue

Anthony Braxton – soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet, contrabass clarinet

Ray Anderson – trombone, alto trombone, little instruments

John Lindberg – bass

Thurman Barker – percussion, xylophone, gongs

Originally released as a 2-LP set by this Swiss record label’s first manifestation (Hat Hut), the single CD reissue should be received with open arms and ears by reedman/composer Anthony Braxton’s legion of admirers. On the flip side, it provides an opportunity for those who never purchased the initial copy. And while it was recorded live back in 1979, the artist’s visionary permutations sound just as fresh, cutting-edge or pacesetting as any of the nouveau sounds heard today.

Braxton leads the quartet through complex works that substantiate his geometric style music notations. There’s a whole lot more than meets the eyes and ears here. During the opening moments of “Part I,” drummer Thurman Barker and bassist John Lindberg generate a scraping, bass and snare drum motif, which comes across as an abbreviated military-march progression. But the fun continues when Braxton and trombonist Ray Anderson engage in knotty unison lines over the top. The band frequently detours the musical panorama into clusters amid a sequence of mesmerizing developments that often flow into linear and multi-tiered progressive-jazz exercises. In various areas, Braxton, playing a variety of reed instruments, and Anderson venture into the stratosphere via torrid soloing breakouts and robust swing vamps.

On “Part II,” Barker uses his percussion and xylophone to initiate an adventurous world music groove, softened up by Braxton’s introspective soprano sax lines. Then the quartet proceeds to expand and contract matters with stop/start motifs along with an inverted John Phillip Sousa type parade romp. So, they equalize the austere segments with a lighthearted muse that consummates the rather existential and perhaps unlikely sequence of events, all personified by Braxton’s indelible signature.