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Anthony Braxton

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Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who is known in the genre of free jazz. [1]

85 relations: Antilles Records, Arista Records, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Avant-garde, Avant-garde jazz, Barry Altschul, Battles (band), Bebop, Black Saint/Soul Note, Brass instrument, C melody saxophone, Cecil Taylor, Charlie Parker, Châtellerault, Chess, Chick Corea, Chris Kelsey, CIMP, Circle (jazz band), Coleman Hawkins, Conference of the Birds (Dave Holland album), Contrabass clarinet, Contrabass saxophone, Creative Construction Company, Creative Music Studio, Creative Orchestra Music 1976, Dave Douglas (trumpeter), Dave Holland, Delmark Records, E-flat clarinet, ECM Records, Eric Dolphy, For Alto, Free jazz, Frog Peak Music, George Lewis (trombonist), Gerry Hemingway, Hathut Records, Hustling, Improvisation, Jazz, Jazz fusion, Jazz standard, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, John Cage, John Coltrane, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kenny Wheeler, Leo Records, Leroy Jenkins (jazz musician), ..., MacArthur Fellows Program, Marilyn Crispell, Mario Pavone, Mark Dresser, Math rock, Mezzo-soprano saxophone, Mills College, Muhal Richard Abrams, Muse Records, Music & Arts, Musical notation, Mysticism, Noise music, Orchestra, Paul Desmond, Ray Anderson (musician), Return to Forever, Richard Davis (bassist), Richard Teitelbaum, Roosevelt University, Sam Rivers, Sopranino saxophone, Soprano clarinet, Steve Lacy, Steve McCall (drummer), SuperCollider, Swing (jazz performance style), Thomas Chapin, Tyondai Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, Warne Marsh, Wesleyan University, Wolf Eyes, Woodstock Jazz Festival, Wynton Marsalis. Expand index (35 more) »

Antilles Records

Antilles Records was a record label founded as a division of Island Records.

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Arista Records

Arista Records, Inc. was a major American record label.

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Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is a non-profit organization, founded in 1965 in Chicago, Illinois, United States, by pianist/composer Muhal Richard Abrams, pianist Jodie Christian, drummer Steve McCall, and composer Phil Cohran.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz.

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Barry Altschul

Barry Altschul (born January 6, 1943, New York City) is a free jazz and hard bop drummer who first came to notice in the late 1960s for performing with pianists Paul Bley and Chick Corea.

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Battles (band)

Battles is an American experimental rock group, founded in 2002 in New York City by Ian Williams (formerly of Don Caballero and Storm & Stress).

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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Black Saint/Soul Note

Black Saint and Soul Note are two affiliated Italian independent record labels.

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Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.

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C melody saxophone

The C melody saxophone is a saxophone pitched in the key of C, one whole step above the B-flat tenor saxophone.

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Cecil Taylor

Cecil Percival Taylor (March 15, 1929 - April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Châtellerault

Châtellerault is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in France.

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Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

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Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz pianist/electric keyboardist and composer.

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Chris Kelsey

Chris Kelsey (born June 5, 1961) is an American-born jazz saxophonist, composer, and critic.

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CIMP

Creative Improvised Music Projects, usually abbreviated CIMP or C.I.M.P., is an American jazz record company and label.

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Circle (jazz band)

Circle was an avant garde jazz ensemble active in 1970 and 1971.

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Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Conference of the Birds (Dave Holland album)

Conference of the Birds is a studio album by the Dave Holland Quartet, recorded in 1972 and released in 1973.

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Contrabass clarinet

The contrabass clarinet and contra-alto clarinet are the two largest members of the clarinet family that are in common usage.

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Contrabass saxophone

The contrabass saxophone is the second-lowest-pitched extant member of the saxophone family proper.

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Creative Construction Company

Creative Construction Company was an American jazz ensemble active briefly in the early 1970s.

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Creative Music Studio

The Creative Music Studio (CMS) was a premier study center for contemporary creative music during the 1970s and 1980s, based in Woodstock, New York.

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Creative Orchestra Music 1976

Creative Orchestra Music 1976 is an album by American jazz saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton recorded in 1976 and released on the Arista label.

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Dave Douglas (trumpeter)

Dave Douglas (born March 24, 1963) is an American jazz trumpeter and composer whose music derives from jazz, classical music, folk music, electronica, and klezmer.

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Dave Holland

Dave Holland (born 1 October 1946) is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades.

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Delmark Records

Delmark Records is the oldest American jazz and blues independent record label.

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E-flat clarinet

The E-flat (E) clarinet is a member of the clarinet family.

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ECM Records

ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Manfred Eicher in Munich in 1969.

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Eric Dolphy

Eric Allan Dolphy, Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist.

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For Alto

For Alto is a jazz double-LP by composer/multi-reedist Anthony Braxton released on Delmark Records in 1969.

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Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 60s as musicians attempted to alter, extend, or break down jazz convention, often by discarding fixed chord changes or tempos.

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Frog Peak Music

Frog Peak Music is a composer's collective that produces and distributes experimental works, and functions as a home for its artists.

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George Lewis (trombonist)

George Emanuel Lewis (born July 14, 1952) is an American composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar in the fields of improvisation and experimental music.

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Gerry Hemingway

Gerry Hemingway (born 1955) is an American jazz drummer and composer.

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Hathut Records

Hathut Records is a Swiss record company and label founded by Werner Xavier Uehlinger in 1974 that specializes in jazz and classical music.

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Hustling

Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into gambling (or gambling for higher than current stakes) with the hustler, as a form of both a confidence trick and match fixing.

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Improvisation

Improvisation is creating or performing something spontaneously or making something from whatever is available.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jazz standard

Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners.

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Jean-Pierre Thiollet

Jean-Pierre Thiollet (born December 9, 1956 in Poitiers) is a French writer and journalist.

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John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Kenny Wheeler

Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC (14 January 1930 – 18 September 2014) was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards.

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Leo Records

Leo Records is a British record company and label which releases jazz from Russian, American, and British musicians.

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Leroy Jenkins (jazz musician)

Leroy Jenkins (Chicago, March 11, 1932 – February 24, 2007, New York City) was an American composer and violinist/violist.

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MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship, or "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 individuals, working in any field, who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States.

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Marilyn Crispell

Marilyn Crispell (born March 30, 1947) is an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Mario Pavone

Mario Pavone (born November 11, 1940) is an American jazz bassist.

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Mark Dresser

Mark Dresser (born 1952, Los Angeles, California) is an American double bass player and composer.

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Math rock

Math rock is a style of indie rock that emerged in the late 1980s in the United States, influenced by post-hardcore, progressive rock bands such as King Crimson, and 20th century minimal music composers such as Steve Reich.

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Mezzo-soprano saxophone

The mezzo-soprano saxophone, sometimes called the F alto saxophone, is an instrument in the saxophone family.

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Mills College

Mills College is a liberal arts and sciences college located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Muhal Richard Abrams

Muhal Richard Abrams (born Richard Lewis Abrams; September 19, 1930 – October 29, 2017) was an American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist in the free jazz medium.

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Muse Records

Muse Records was a jazz record company and label founded in New York City by Joe Fields in 1972.

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Music & Arts

Music & Arts is a classical and jazz record label founded in Berkeley, California by Frederick Maroth.

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Musical notation

Music notation or musical notation is any system used to visually represent aurally perceived music played with instruments or sung by the human voice through the use of written, printed, or otherwise-produced symbols.

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Mysticism

Mysticism is the practice of religious ecstasies (religious experiences during alternate states of consciousness), together with whatever ideologies, ethics, rites, myths, legends, and magic may be related to them.

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Noise music

Noise music is a category of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise within a musical context.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.

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Paul Desmond

Paul Desmond (born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer, best known for his work with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for composing that group's biggest hit, "Take Five".

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Ray Anderson (musician)

Ray Anderson (born October 16, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is a jazz trombone and trumpet player.

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Return to Forever

Return to Forever is a jazz fusion group founded and led by pianist Chick Corea.

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Richard Davis (bassist)

Richard Davis (born April 15, 1930) is an American jazz bassist.

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Richard Teitelbaum

Richard Lowe Teitelbaum (born May 19, 1939) is an American composer, keyboardist, and improvisor.

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Roosevelt University

Roosevelt University is a coeducational, private university with campuses in Chicago, Illinois and Schaumburg, Illinois.

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Sam Rivers

Samuel Carthorne Rivers (September 25, 1923 – December 26, 2011) was an American jazz musician and composer.

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Sopranino saxophone

The sopranino saxophone is one of the smallest members of the saxophone family.

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Soprano clarinet

The term soprano clarinet is used occasionally to refer to those instruments from the clarinet family that occupy a higher position, both in pitch and in popularity than subsequent additions to the family such as the basset horns and bass clarinets.

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Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy (July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004), born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone.

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Steve McCall (drummer)

Steve McCall (September 30, 1933 – May 24, 1989) was an American jazz drummer.

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SuperCollider

SuperCollider is an environment and programming language originally released in 1996 by James McCartney for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.

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Swing (jazz performance style)

In music, the term swing has two main uses.

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Thomas Chapin

Thomas Chapin (March 9, 1957 – February 13, 1998) was an American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist.

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Tyondai Braxton

Tyondai Adaien Braxton (born October 26, 1978) is an American composer and musician.

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Wadada Leo Smith

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (born December 18, 1941) is an American trumpeter and composer, working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation.

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Warne Marsh

Warne Marion Marsh (October 26, 1927 – December 18, 1987) was an American tenor saxophonist.

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Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, founded in 1831.

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Wolf Eyes

Wolf Eyes is an American experimental music group from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1996 by Nate Young.

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Woodstock Jazz Festival

The Woodstock Jazz Festival was held in 1981 in Woodstock, New York.

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Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Braxton

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