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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 Chica ...

with the Northwest Creative Orchestra recorded at the

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in 1989 for the Italian

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Reception

The

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review by

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awarded the album 3 stars calling it "A stimulating set of avant-garde music".Yanow, S
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named the album as part of its suggested “core collection”.

Track listing

All compositions by Anthony Braxton. # "Composition No. 112" – 10:03 # "Composition No. 91" – 9:53 # "Composition No. 134" – 10:49 # "Composition No. 100" – 8:48 # "Composition No. 93" – 8:26 # "Composition No. 45" – 12:55 # "Composition No. 71" – 10:32 # "Composition No. 59" – 8:01 *Recorded at Beall Hall at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon on January 31, 1989

Personnel

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alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B tenor ...

, conductor *The Northwest Creative Orchestra: **Rob Blakeslee, John Jensen, Ernie Carbajal –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

**Ed Kammerer, Tom Hill, Mike Heffley –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...

**Thom Bergeron, Jeff Homan, Carl Woideck, Mike Curtis – reeds **Mike Vannice – reeds,

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 keyboa ...

**Todd Barton –

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

**Joe Robinson –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

**Forrest Moyer – bass **Tom Kelly –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

**Charles Dowd – percussion,

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,' ...

References

{{Anthony Braxton Black Saint/Soul Note albums Anthony Braxton live albums 1989 live albums