''Five Pieces 1975'' is an album by American jazz 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 1975 and released on the Arista label.Anthony Braxton discography
accessed December 14, 2011Anthony Braxton Project: 1971-1979 Chronology
accessed November 7, 2016 The album was subsequently included on ''The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton'' released by Mosaic Records in 2008.

Reception

The

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review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "The tightness of his very alert and versatile group and the strength of the compositions make this one of Anthony Braxton's most rewarding records of the mid-1970s".Yanow, S
Allmusic Review
accessed December 15, 2011

Track listing

All compositions by Anthony Braxton except where noted. #

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- 3:23 *Recorded at Generation Sound Studios in New York on July 1 (track 1) & July 2 (tracks 2-5), 1975

Personnel

- sopranino saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet,

contrabass clarinet The contrabass clarinet (also pedal clarinet, after the pedals of pipe organs) and contra-alto clarinet are the two largest members of the clarinet family that are in common usage. Modern contrabass clarinets are transposing instruments pitc ...

, flute, alto flute *

Kenny Wheeler Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC (14 January 1930 – 18 September 2014) was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards. Most of his performances were rooted in jazz, but he was also active i ...

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 ...

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Dave Holland David “Dave” Holland (born 1 October 1946) is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for over 40 years. His extensive discography r ...

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Barry Altschul Barry Altschul (born January 6, 1943, New York City) is a free jazz and hard bop drummer who first came to notice in the late 1960s for performing with pianists Paul Bley and Chick Corea. Biography Altschul is of Russian Jewish heritage, the s ...

- drums

References

{{Authority control Arista Records albums Anthony Braxton albums 1975 albums Albums produced by Michael Cuscuna