Anthony Braxton: 3 Compositions of New Jazz (1968)
This is great. Reading his biography on all-music a lot of words were used to attempt to label his music.
jazz...not jazz
classical jazz?
experimental avante-garde classical jazz?
wynton marsalis says it's not jazz
but then wynton
limits himself
by being tied to the past
the past needs to be
preserved
admired
and used as a
launching pad
into one's own
creative impetus
a stimulus
to explore and create.
"Composition 6E" is very dissonant and drips of tones slip through...lots happening...space is very important, as Sun Ra says: "Space is the Place!"...
"Composition 6D" is more brassy (does that make it jazz????) and sound fills the spaces more fully...sorta rocks in it's own way...not that i'm trying to label the music per se...just rocks in a "metaphorical" sense...
"The Bell" starts with Leroy Jenkins playing some awesome violin...just wailing like on the porch of the symphony stage...very beautiful...
Anthony Braxton is someone I've known about, but only recently started "hearing". There's an ocean of sounds by Mr. Braxton to delve into (he was very prolific) and there's no reason to hesitate...the water is warm...if occasionally complex...
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