''Creative Orchestra (Köln) 1978'' is a live album by American composer and saxophonist

Anthony Braxton Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto. Braxton grew up on the South Side of Ch ...

. Recorded in Germany in 1978 but not released on the hatART label until 1995, the album features a live concert featuring several of Braxton's compositions that were first recorded on '' Creative Orchestra Music 1976''.Anthony Braxton discography
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review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "The music is often dense and atonal but never dull, and the closing composition is a superb piece that displays Braxton's love of marching band music! Although one wishes that Anthony Braxton himself had played, this is a set easily recommended to his fans".Yanow, S.
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Jeff Stockton said "Those curious about Braxton but discouraged by the sheer number of recordings available may find this the place to start. Most of Braxton's work falls into two categories—more difficult and less difficult—but these 100 minutes of music are decidedly in the latter category. Braxton is among a handful of jazz composers whose music is part of the graduate-level course in the avant-garde" and Troy Collins noted "''Creative Orchestra (Koln) 1978'' is an endlessly intriguing concert recording that warrants repeated spins, offering new surprises with each listen".Stockton, J.
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Track listing

''All compositions by Anthony Braxton'' Disc one # "Language Improvisations" - 14:34 # "Composition 55" - 12:27 # "Composition 45" - 25:21 Disc two # "Composition 59" - 21:45 # "Composition 51" - 17:19 # "Composition 58" - 12:56

Personnel

- conductor *Dwight Andrews,

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s, clarinets, flutes, piccolo *Rob Howard, Michael Mossman, Leo Smith,

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* Ray Anderson, George E. Lewis, James King Roosa -

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piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

*Birgit Taubhorn - accordion *

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vibraphone The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist ...

* James Emery -

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...

* John Lindberg, Brian Smith - bass *

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marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

* Robert Ostertag - synthesizer

References

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