Label: Hat Hut
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 7619925607527
ASIN: B000001YRZ
Release Date: 1994-07-06
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Anthony Braxton
Label: Hat Hut Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 EAN: 7619925607527 ASIN: B000001YRZ Release Date: 1994-07-06 |
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Incredible........2002-07-31
"Composition 40 F", Braxton's "half-step" piece, begins as such, climbing harmonically up and down in chromatics with the two horns locking into various intervals between. That being stated, the group proceeds almost naturally into improvisation. In free-form dialog, Braxton on clarinet, the group feeds off and apart from the ideas proposed in the arrangement. Following a brief trombone rumination, Braxton returns on the frightening contrabass clarinet, bellowing distorted purrs and timbre shifts (think Stockhausen). A bass solo serves as a transition into "Composition 23 J", where the sparks really begin to fly. The arrangement here is sickening rapid and the improvisations that follow continue in that vain. Braxton's technique is complete, and then some. His staccato lines are punctuated by breathtaking lyricism, eventually losing control to unfettered shrieks and blasts. Lewis certainly holds his own during his spotlight while Holland and Altschul drive the two through several stages of intensity.
Incredible.
"Composition 40 (O)" is a practice in "progressive" music, exemplified by Braxton first on sopranino, then on contrabass saxophone. Lewis sees him through, finding common ground by growling the trombone's lower register.
"Composition 6 C" is sheer joy. Demonstrating Braxton's love for circus music, the piece is constructed over a repeating bass line. Once again, Braxton and Lewis shine here, trading off marching-band clichés, sirens, and tonal/atonal gas with an unbridled enthusiasm rarely found within most avant-garde camps.
"Composition 40 B" closes the set with a hard-swinging tribute to Lou Donaldson.
This is required listening for both skeptics of the genius Anthony Braxton and those elusive to the pure magic which is jazz.
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