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ANTHONY BRAXTON
Diamond Curtain Wall Quartet
France 2015 [no label, 1CD]
Festival Sons d’Hiver. Live at the Espace Culturel André Malraux, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France; January 23, 2015. Very good satellite radio broadcast.
The New York Times calls composer, reed player and NEA Jazz Master Anthony Braxton “a rebel abstractionist, a builder of original languages combining composition and improvisation”.
Here is Jon Turney reviewing the January 20, 2015 show at The Lantern, Colston Hall Bristol:
This was Braxton’s Diamond Curtain Wall Quartet, on this date featuring Mary Halvorson on guitar, Taylor Ho Bynum on assorted trumpets, and James Fei on reeds. They are all close colleagues, and it shows in the eye-blinkingly rapid conversational interaction they maintain throughout. There were scores - both Braxton’s unique graphic scores and ones with dots - but the focused cohesion these four maintain made it pretty much irrelevant what was improvised, what prepared, the only sign of the latter being occasional hand signals from the composer.
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Thanks to unclewolfi for sharing the show at Dime.
Lineage:
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(mpeg1 layer 2/256 kbps) [radio station - france musique]
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Composition 363 D / Composition 46 / Composition 367 C
Track 01. Part 01 9:14 (15.5MB)
Track 02. Part 02 11:05 (18.6MB)
Track 03. Part 03 8:39 (14.5MB)
Track 04. Part 04 10:30 (17.6MB)
Track 05. Part 05 14:30 (24.3MB)
54 mins
Note: The show was originally shared as one 54-minute file. The track has been arbitrarily split for easier access.
Lineup:
Anthony Braxton - bass, alto, soprano and sopranino saxophones, electronics
James Fei - alto, curved soprano and sopranino saxophones, clarinet
Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet, flugelhorn, bass trumpet, trombone
Mary Halvorson - electric guitar
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