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Anthony Braxton
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Anthony Braxton from Chicago joined the AACM in 1966. In 1969 he recorded For Alto, a double album for unaccompanied alto saxophone, the first of its kind. He named John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman among his influences, alongside composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage. Braxton gives his pieces no titles, but diagrams and numbers. He developed his own systems for composition and improvisation and wrote for groups from a single player to orchestras and opera. He also likes to play standards. He taught at Wesleyan University for more than twenty years. In 1994 he received a MacArthur grant.
Listening
Listening tip. Listen to one saxophone without accompaniment: every sound is a building block.
To Composer John Cage · Anthony Braxton, 1969
6-77AR-36K · Anthony Braxton, 1974
22-M · Anthony Braxton, 1976- Dedicated to Multi-Instrumentalist Jack Gell · Anthony Braxton, 1969
Discography
Studio albums
- 19683 Compositions of New Jazz
- 1969B-X° / NO-I-47ᴬ
- 1970This Time...
- 1971For Alto
- 1972Dona Lee
- 1972Saxophone Improvisations, Series F.
- 1972Town Hall 1972
- 1973Four Compositions (1973)
- 1973The Complete Braxton
- 1974In the Tradition
- 1974Silence
- 1974Together Alone
- 1974Trio and Duet
- 1975Duo 2
- 1975Five Pieces (1975)
- 1975New York, Fall 1974
- 1976Creative Orchestra Music 1976
- 1976Duets 1976
- 1977In the Tradition, Volume 2
- 1978Birth and Rebirth
- 1978For Four Orchestras
- 1978For Trio
- 1978Roscoe Mitchell Duets with Anthony Braxton
- 1979Alto Saxophone Improvisations 1979
- 1980Seven Compositions 1978
- 1981Composition 98
- 1982Composition No. 95, For Two Pianos
- 1982Four Pieces
- 1982Open Aspects '82
- 1982Six Compositions: Quartet
- 1982Six Duets (1982)
- 1983Four Compositions (Quartet) 1983
- 1984Braxton & Stockhausen
- 1985Composition 113
- 1985Seven Standards 1985, Volume 1
- 1985Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984
- 1986Anthony Braxton · Robert Schumann String Quartet
- 1986Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986
- 1986Seven Standards 1985, Volume II
- 1987Duets 1987
- 1988Compositions 99, 101, 107 & 139
- 1988Six Monk's Compositions
- 1989Composition N.96
- 1990Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions 1989
- 1990Kol Nidre
- 1991Eugene (1989)
- 1991Solo (London) 1988
- 19922 Compositions (Ensemble) 1989/1991
- 19928 Duets (Hamburg 1991)
- 1992Composition No. 165 (For 18 Instruments)
- 19934 (Ensemble) Compositions
- 1993Moment Précieux
- 1994Composition No 174 (For Ten Percussionists, Slide Projections, Constructed Environment And Tape)
- 1995Charlie Parker Project 1993
- 1995Solo Piano (Standards) 1995
- 1996Composition No. 102 (For Orchestra & Puppet Theatre)
- 1996Composition No. 173
- 1996Duets 1995
- 1996Piano Music (Notated) 1968-1988
- 1996Sextet (Istanbul) 1996
- 199711 Compositions (Duo) 1995
- 1997A Memory Of Vienna
- 1997Eight by Three
- 1997Octet (New York) 1995
- 199814 Compositions (Traditional) 1996
- 1998Composition 192 (For Two Musicians & Constructed Environment)
- 1998Compositions No. 10 & No. 16 (+101)
- 1999Small Ensemble Music (Wesleyan) 1994
- 1999Trillium R
- 1999Two Lines
- 2000Compositions/Improvisations 2000
- 2000Nine Compositions (Hill) 2000
- 2000Quintet (Basel) 1977
- 2000Ten Compositions (Quartet) 2000
- 2001Composition N. 247
- 2002Duets (Wesleyan) 2002
- 2003Anthony Braxton Sonny Simmons Brandon Evans Andre Vida Mike Pride Shanir Blumenkranz
- 2003Four Compositions (GTM) 2000
- 2003Organic Resonance
- 2003Six Compositions (GTM) 2001
- 2003Two Compositions (Trio) 1998
- 200423 Standards Quartet
- 2004Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace
- 2004Six Standards (Quintet) 1996
- 2004The Song Is You
- 20052 + 2 Compositions
- 2005Child Reel Eyes
- 2005Concept of Freedom
- 2005Shadow Company
- 2005Triotone
- 2006ABCD
- 2007Nine Compositions (DVD) 2003
- 2008Beyond Quantum
- 2008Four Improvisations (Duo) 2007
- 2008Piano Music (1968-2000)
- 2008Quartet (GTM) 2006
- 2009Improvisations (Duo) 2008
- 20106 Duos (Wesleyan) 2006
- 2010Duets (Pittsburgh) 2008
- 2010GTM (Syntax) 2003 Composition 339 & 340
- 2011Duo (Verona) 1989
- 2012Syntactical GTM Choir (NYC) 2011
- 2013Echo Echo Mirror House
- 2013Ensemble Montaigne (Bau 4) 2013
- 2013Quartet (FRM) 2007 Vol. 1
- 2013Quartet (FRM) 2007 Vol. 2
- 2013Quartet (FRM) 2007 Vol. 3
- 2013Quartet (FRM) 2007 Vol. 4
- 2013Solo Willisau
- 201412 Duets (DCWM) 2012
- 2014Trio (New Haven) 2013
- 2015Trio (Florence) 1979 - 11.19 - 1
- 2015Wesleyan (12 Altosolos) 1992
- 20163 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011
- 2016Composition 323 A; Composition 323 B
- 2016Duo (DCWM) 2013
- 2016Quintet [Tristano] 2014
- 2016Trillium J
- 20174 Improvisations (Duets) 2004
- 2018Eight Improvisations (Trio) 2014
- 2018Sextet (Parker) 1993
- 2019GTM (Syntax) 2017
- 2019Quartet (New Haven) 2014
- 2020Duo (Improv) 2017
- 202112 Comp (ZIM) 2017
- 2024Neighbours with Anthony Braxton
- 20252 Comp (2023)
- 2025Trillium X
- 2026Articulations
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Anthony Braxton recorded For Alto in 1969, a double album for unaccompanied saxophone.