Thirty-four years is a long time for a tape to sit in a drawer, but jazz history is littered with such delays, and Anthony Braxton’s discography in particular has always unspooled out of chronological order. Articulations, a duo session with guitarist James Emery recorded in Florence on June 19, 1992, finally surfaced this year on Emery’s own Bandcamp imprint, self-released and produced by Emery with Ed Petersen. The reasons behind the gap are not spelled out in the credits, and speculation serves no one — what matters is that the recording exists, and that it captures two formidable improvisers near a creative peak, as annotator Ted Panken notes in the release copy.
Emery’s connection to Braxton runs deep. Best known as a founding member of the String…
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Though Leo Records has previously documented Quartet (London) 1985 (1988); Quartet (Birmingham) 1985 (1991); and Quartet (Coventry) 1985 (1993), Burning Ambulance Music is proud to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the tour with this set of previously unreleased recordings from Liverpool, Sheffield, Leicester, Bristol, Southampton, Leeds, and Huddersfield.
…With a brazen logic all its own, Quartet (England) 1985 is not, by any means or definition, for those whose algorithms prescribe soothing puppy and kitten videos or languorous spa music. Maniacal, undaunted, unflinching, Quartet (England) 1985 place the brave listener in the eye of the cacophonous tornado fury that was Anthony Braxton, pianist Marilyn Crispell, bassist…
ESP-Disk offering a recent, live capture of towering figures of avant-garde jazz and underground noise music who join forces in a combustible conference of splendid spontaneity. live at pioneer works, 26 october 2023 by Anthony Braxton and Wolf Eyes dryly denotes in its title the place and time of the occasion but there’s nothing parched about the music made there that night.
Anthony Braxton — the mastermind behind so many elongated intricate, creative opuses — still likes to just get on a stage and jam with cats a generation or two behind him, and they come in all shapes and sizes. The cats this time are Wolf Eyes, a prolifically-recorded legend noise band out of Detroit. The moniker originally applied to Nate Young alone when he started it in…