''Donna Lee'' is an album by American saxophonist and composer

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 1972 and originally released on the French America label.Anthony Braxton discography
accessed December 13, 2011Anthony Braxton Project: 1971-1979 Chronology
accessed November 7, 2016

Reception

The

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review awarded the album 4 stars.Allmusic Review
accessed December 13, 2011

Track listing

All compositions by Anthony Braxton except where noted. # "

Donna Lee "Donna Lee" is a bebop jazz standard attributed to Charlie Parker, although Miles Davis has also claimed authorship. Written in A-flat, it is based on the chord changes of the jazz standard "(Back Home Again in) Indiana". Beginning with an unusua ...

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Miles Davis Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musi ...

) - 9:14 # "H-204 3=HF G Composition No - 23L" - 12:03 # " You Go to My Head Part 1" (

J. Fred Coots John Frederick Coots (May 2, 1897 – April 8, 1985) was an American songwriter. He composed over 700 popular songs and over a dozen Broadway shows. In 1934, Coots wrote the melody with his then chief collaborator, lyricist Haven Gillespie, for t ...

Haven Gillespie James Lamont Gillespie (February 6, 1888 – March 14, 1975) pen name Haven Gillespie, was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. He was the writer of "You Go to My Head", "Honey", "By the Sycamore Tree", "That Lucky Old Sun", " Breezi ...

) - 6:21 # "You Go to My Head Part 2" (Coots, Gillespie) - 10:18 # "60666 C -66M Composition 23K" - 5:15 *Recorded at Studio Decca in Paris, France, on February 18, 1972

Personnel

– alto saxophone *Michael Smith -

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 ...

*Peter Warren - bass *Oliver Johnson - drums

References

{{Authority control America Records albums Anthony Braxton albums 1972 albums