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Anthony Braxton & Walter Frank – 4 Improvisations (Duets) 2004
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Artist……………: Anthony Braxton & Walter Frank
Album…………….: 4 Improvisations (Duets) 2004
Genre…………….: Jazz
Source……………: NMR
Year……………..: 2004
Ripper……………: NMR
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Quality…………..: Standard, (avg. bitrate: 190kbps)
Channels………….: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
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Ripped by…………: NMR
Posted by…………: persona.blah on 17/07/2016
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Tracklisting
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1. Anthony Braxton & Walter Frank – Improvisation 1 [25:46]
2. Anthony Braxton & Walter Frank – Improvisation 2 [22:02]
3. Anthony Braxton & Walter Frank – Improvisation 3 [26:57]
4. Anthony Braxton & Walter Frank – Improvisation 4 [22:49]
Playing Time………: 01:37:34
Total Size………..: 133.18 MB
NFO generated on…..: 17/07/2016 23:22:05
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CD LR 429/430 – LEO RECORDS 2005
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A new side of Anthony Braxton performing a double CD of four improvised pieces with the piano player Walter Franks. As Stuart Broomer writes in his notes: “On first hearing, this is music that seems out of time: often it’s rubato and its harmonic materials – – frequently scalar – – sometimes seem tightly focused on the French impressionist school of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These free dialogues allow Braxton and Franks to create extraordinarily well-developed, rhapsodic compositions…”
Saxophonist Anthony Braxton joins pianist Walter Frank on the latter’s recording debut (note: the album cover misspells his last name, adding an “s” to the end). Frank, an Argentinian composer/improviser, has a graduate degree from Wesleyan and chops to burn. His work has focused on post-minimal music, including premieres of works by composer William Duckworth. His tonally centered and ostinato-heavy style is an interesting new foil for Braxton. Happily, the pairing is an effective one on 4 Improvisations.
While each disc is split into two tracks, each including a twenty-plus minute long selection, there is an expansive quality to the music-making, as well as a concomitant multiplicity of styles, that makes each “improvisation” sound like a fantasy with several discrete sections. “Improvisation 1” is a particularly wide-ranging journey: its opening pits Braxton’s bluesy tenor saxophone utterances against Frank’s thick block chords. The pianist then moves into a limpid, contrapuntal style, frequently creating shimmering arpeggiations and impressionistic harmonies. This in turn elicits a lyrical dolce sensibility from Braxton, who renders melodies as hushed, impassioned whispers. While this delicate interplay is eventually succeeded by a series of more vigorous interchanges, it is the album’s most stunning passage, and one that will linger in your mind.
That said, Frank also holds his own in the more muscular interchanges. He accumulates a beehive of swirling minimal ostinati, to which Braxton responds with lightning fast trills. When Braxton has had enough of the limitations of the post-minimal harmonic field, he breaks out in a roaring, almost raucous burst of angularity, inspiring Frank to crescendo into more cluster-based harmonies and engage in a dissonant cadenza of melodic jabs and body blows. The two end the work playing in disparate styles: Braxton relies on avant-jazz altissimo shrieks, while Frank lays down layers of modal harmony. They somehow remain on the same page, creating a deliciously unusual hybrid music.
On “Improvisation 2”, Frank plays in a drier, more staccato style. Braxton rips through some scintillating licks, creating intricate polyrhythms against Frank’s repeated bass register interjections. Both are in avant high octane mode on “Improvisation 3”; Braxton’s playing is fluid — darting nimbly, bending pitches, breathlessly spinning out endless passages of dizzying melody. Frank plays machine gun-tempo repeated notes in reply, eventually graduating into acrobatic passages that exploit the piano’s entire compass.
“Improvisation 4” is a lively dance, often operating in 6/8 time. Energetic streams of piano notes move in perpetual motion. Braxton’s tenor sax navigates wide-ranging solo terrain, by turns sleek and ruminative. Romantic hued harmonies are pitted against post-bop runs, combining in a music that is both ear-catching and exploratory. Braxton and Frank are terrific sparring partners; hopefully they’ll team up again in the near future.
— Christian Carey