Anthony Braxton - The Essential Anthony Braxton: The Arista Years (2018)

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Title: The Essential Anthony Braxton: The Arista Years
Year Of Release: 2018
Label: Arista/Legacy
Genre: Jazz
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:15:57
Total Size: 314 mb | 681 mb
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Tracklist:

01. 6-77AR-36K (Opus 23B)
02. MDD-3/63D (Opus 23C)
03. Rbhm (Opus 23d)
04. G-647 (Opus 23H)
05. 4 8 9 M (Opus 40M)
06. You Stepped Out of a Dream
07. Maple Leaf Rag feat. Muhal Richard Abrams
08. 327 (Opus 40P) feat. Muhal Richard Abrams
09. 22-M (Opus 58)
10. 0-500 (Opus 55)
11. H-46M (Opus 23J) (Live)
12. C-M = B05 (Opus 6C) (Live)
13. NW-5-94 (Opus 76) (Version One)
14. Sova (Opus 77e)
15. Along Came Betty
16. Giant Steps

Prolific multi-reedist/composer Anthony Braxton is an immensely influential jazz artist who has covered just about every conceivable area of creativity during the course of 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 and multimedia. Largely considered a genius, his self-invented (yet 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 at a full remove from European idioms. Although Braxton exhibits a genuine if highly idiosyncratic ability to play older forms (influenced especially by saxophonists Warne Marsh, John Coltrane, Paul Desmond, 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. The best of his work is on a level with any art music of the late 20th or early 21st centuries, jazz or classical.