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"Music is like a wheel, When you drive a car down a street, you might go down the same street, but you'll run over something today that wasn't there yesterday, so that puts a new look on that tire, and that's the way music is. When it goes over, it picks up something that wasn't there before." - Jimmy McGriff |
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Anthony Braxton at 60: A Celebration, September-December 2005 |
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Written by Lex Leifheit
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Thursday, 11 August 2005 |
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Throughout September, November and December, aspects
of Braxton's music system will be performed in public
spaces throughout the Wesleyan University campus,
bringing his work into direct contact with the
community in a series of Syntactical Ghost Trance
Duos. BRAXTON AT 60 will also feature pre-concert
talks with specialists and notable music scholars Hugo
de Craen, Mike Heffley (author of two books on Braxton
as well as NORTHERN SUN, SOUTHERN MOON: EUROPE'S
REINVENTION OF JAZZ), John Szwed (author of SPACE IS
THE PLACE: THE LIVES AND TIMES OF SUN RA) and Kevin
Whitehead (author of NEW DUTCH SWING).
More information about these events, which are free to
the public, may be found on the BRAXTON AT 60 website
as they are announced.
The Center for the Arts (www.wesleyan.edu/cfa) is an
11-building complex on the Wesleyan campus that houses
the departments of art and art history, music, theater
and dance as well as film studies events and classes.
It serves as a cultural center for the region, the
state and New England. The CFA includes the 400-seat
Theater, the 260-seat Cinema, the World Music Hall (a
non-Western performance space), the 414-seat Crowell
Concert Hall and the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery.
Tickets for ANTHONY BRAXTON AT 60: A CELEBRATION may
be purchased via phone or in person at the box office.
The University Box Office is located on the first
floor of the Davenport Campus Center (222 Church
Street). Performers and schedule are subject to
change. For the most up-to-date information, call
860-685-3355 or visit
website.
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
3 Compositions of New Jazz (Delmark, 1968)
For Alto (Delmark, 1968)
Anthony Braxton Live (Bluebird, 1972)
The Montreux/Berlin Concerts (Arista, 1975)
Quartet (Dortmund) 1976 (hatART, 1976)
Composition No. 96 (Leo, 1981)
Victoriaville 1988 (Victo, 1988)
Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions, 1989: For Warne
Marsh (hatART 1989)
Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993 hatART 1993)
Sextet (Istanbul) 1996 (Braxton House, 1996)
Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997, Vol. 3 (Leo, 2005)
"One of the greatest sax players and composers in
contemporary jazz."-The Warsaw Voice, 2005
"Braxton's compositions are at once self-consciously
cerebral, yet delivered with a gritty roughness."-The
Independent, 2004
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