31.3.07
Está pronta a sair, a mais recente obra de grande fundo de Anthony Braxton, 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 – nove CDs e um DVD contendo a integral das gravações realizadas na Primavera passada pelo 12teto + 1 de A. Braxton, no Iridium Jazz Club de Nova Iorque. O Lançamento oficial está marcado para 3 de Abril, na Firehouse 12 Records, de Nick Lloyd e Taylor Ho Bynum. A edição de 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 inclui a estreia das Compositions 350 a 358, que corresponde ao fecho do ciclo Ghost Trance Music (GTM), iniciado há 11 anos, e um documentário em DVD sobre a preparação e execução das obras, com um conjunto de documentos inéditos e excertos de actuações ao vivo do 12teto + 1 (Anthony Braxton, Mary Halvorson, Nicole Mitchell, Sara Schoenbeck, Reut Regev, Carl Testa, James Fei, Andrew Raffo Dewar, Jay Rozen, Stephen H. Lehman, Jessica Pavone, Aaron Siegel e Taylor Ho Bynum). Na Downtown Music Gallery haverá sessão de autógrafos, e as primeiras encomendas via net receberão cópias autografadas pelo autor. Anthony Braxton tem estado a actuar no Iridium desde 29 de Março, numa curta residência que durará até 1 de Abril.
Dave Douglas: "Going to hear Anthony Braxton in Times Square is a unique event. The quizzical looks of tourists who just happened to come down for this set and seem to be asking themselves if this is some sort of introduction to something else or if in fact this is the thing itself. Rapt listeners aware that we are in for a very special treat. The tension was palpable, and it was inspiring to think that after all these years of brilliance-years of composing, performing, teaching, writing, living-this man is still on the front edge of what it means to hear new music, to be in time, to exist. There is a power in this music that urges us to do better, to learn, to grow, to change and adapt. To excel in each moment."
John Kelman (AllAboutJazz.com): "Braxton is one of the past forty years' great radical musical thinkers. He simply operates on a different plane than the vast majority, and his compositions reflect the kind of rich complexity that is so beyond the conventional that one really has to listen to them with a different set of ears".
Chris Kelsey (All Music Guide): "The multi-reedist/composer might very well be jazz's last bona fide genius. The best of his work is on a level with any art music of the late 20th century, jazz or classical".
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@ 31.3.07 Dave Douglas: "Going to hear Anthony Braxton in Times Square is a unique event. The quizzical looks of tourists who just happened to come down for this set and seem to be asking themselves if this is some sort of introduction to something else or if in fact this is the thing itself. Rapt listeners aware that we are in for a very special treat. The tension was palpable, and it was inspiring to think that after all these years of brilliance-years of composing, performing, teaching, writing, living-this man is still on the front edge of what it means to hear new music, to be in time, to exist. There is a power in this music that urges us to do better, to learn, to grow, to change and adapt. To excel in each moment."
John Kelman (AllAboutJazz.com): "Braxton is one of the past forty years' great radical musical thinkers. He simply operates on a different plane than the vast majority, and his compositions reflect the kind of rich complexity that is so beyond the conventional that one really has to listen to them with a different set of ears".
Chris Kelsey (All Music Guide): "The multi-reedist/composer might very well be jazz's last bona fide genius. The best of his work is on a level with any art music of the late 20th century, jazz or classical".
