GIFT GUIDE: Are music box sets worth it? Nov 28, 2008
Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings Mosaic, $136. Box briefs: Enthusiasts have been clamoring for years for these nine albums by the avant-garde multi-instrumentalist. (USA Today)
Music listings Oct 17, 2008
Nate Wooley New Jersey-based trumpeter Wooley has played with Anthony Braxton and is known for his avant-jazz and noise aesthetics. Torsten Muller and Paul Lytton join him. (Vancouver Sun)
Review in Retrospect: Battles Sep 10, 2008
More often than not, the vocalizations provided by Tyondai Braxton son of jazz musician/philosopher Anthony Braxton are heavily distorted cries or chants that are reminiscent of bands such as Animal Collective. This is backed by almost free-form drumming, where time signatures seem to change at drummer John Stanier's (formerly the drummer of Helmet) whim. (Suite101.com)
Fred Lonberg-Holm Jun 12, 2008
Music Preview: Cellist's sonic wizardry is no mere 'Night in Tunisia. Search post-gazette NOW. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Talent is their ticket to explore the bass Jun 2, 2008
HAS WORKED WITH: Anthony Braxton, Tim Berne, John Zorn, Ray Anderson, Jane Ira Bloom, Denman Maroney. WHY THE BASS: It's an endless source of timbral sounds that are unbelievably rich. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Andrea Parkins Apr 10, 2008
Parkins' concert is another installment in a series called "Radical Riffs," which is the first time since the mid-'90s Three Rivers Arts Festival -- when Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton performed at Point State Park -- that any upscale Downtown arts organization (in this case, the Cultural Trust) has allotted dedicated funding for a regularly occurring series featuring experimental and free-improvised music. "Riffs" is the brainchild of local musician and poet Eden McNutt, who programs it in... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Two jazz progressives take divergent CD paths Mar 20, 2008
In addition to being instrumental in bringing Anthony Braxton this spring (Opie's saxophonist/composer hero will hold forth in late May at the Manchester Craftsman's Guild, and at CAPA with Antithesis), Opie helms electronic music courses at Carnegie Mellon, where Thoth Speaks (with two Thompson compositions in addition to Opie's, plus an old Water Shed burner called "101 Degrees" revisited) was documented by the able ears of classical recording expert Riccardo Schulz. "We just played live in... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Scientist Of Sound Feb 18, 2008
Previous occupants of the position, named after the French composer who taught at Mills from 1941 to 1971, include Lou Harrison, Iannis Xenakis, Pauline Oliveros and Anthony Braxton. Talking to Mitchell, you get the sense that sitting in an old wooden chair and being an exalted professor are about equivalent in the grand scheme of things - at least at this particular moment, when he is concentrating on an interviewer with that uncanny focus jazz musicians have when they're listening to each... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Groove Yard: Rockridge shop sustains LP life even after MP3 success Jan 20, 2008
" He eventually became the West Coast distributor for several labels, including Black Saint, Hat Hut, India Navigation, Unit Core, with artists like Cecil Taylor, David Murray, Don Pullen, Chick Corea, Anthony Braxton and dozens more - most of them brilliant U.S. artists who couldn't get record deals back home. And he sold to dozens of stores in the West Coast and later nationwide. When CDs began to become the dominant music format in the late '80s, Ballard found himself stuck with a warehouse... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Henry Rollins is ready to talk business Oct 6, 2007
Tomorrow I'll play Anthony Braxton and Public Enemy. I play lots of Lenny Bruce. (Boston Globe)
A bountiful crop of fall festivals Aug 30, 2007
This year's edition features performances by Anthony Braxton, Carla Bley and Charlie Haden, as well as by free-ranging filmmaker/pianist Michael Snow and brainy popsters Do Make Say Think. BEYONC. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Obituary: Max Roach Aug 18, 2007
Roach outgrew the conventions of bebop to the extent that younger innovators such as Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor played duets with him. He played his last concert with Taylor at Colombia University in 2000. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Max Roach, 83; created rhythmic foundation of bebop, expanded role of drums Aug 17, 2007
It was a mark of Mr. Roach's range that he also performed with R&B singer Louis Jordan, Dixieland trumpeter Henry (Red) Allen, avant-garde players such as Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor, and the rapper Fab 5 Freddy. "You have to pursue, pursue, pursue," Mr. Roach said in a 1998 interview with The (London) Observer newspaper. (Boston Globe)
Drummer Max Roach dies at 83 Aug 17, 2007
Concerned about relating musically only with his students, he turned to the New York avant-garde and recorded with Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor and Archie Shepp. In 1970, he created the all-percussion band M'Boom that he would keep active for more than two decades. (Variety)
Max Roach, a founder of modern jazz, dies at 83 Aug 17, 2007
He dueted with uncompromising avant-gardists like the pianist Cecil Taylor and the saxophonist Anthony Braxton. He performed unaccompanied. (International Herald Tribune)
Battles moves up from the underground Jul 15, 2007
Braxton is the son of experimental composer Anthony Braxton , and an acclaimed solo performer in his own right. Drummer John Stanier played with alt-metal staple Helmet, and guitarist Ian Williams was a member of instrumental outfit Don Caballero. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Battles: Mirrored Jun 6, 2007
Which should be expected, given the backgrounds of the musicians involved: Guitarists Ian Williams and Dave Konopka were in the inventive post-rock outfits Don Caballero and Lynx, respectively; drummer John Stanier cut his teeth in alt-metal stalwart Helmet; and guitarist/laptopper/noise engineer Tyondai Braxton is the son of free-jazz genius Anthony Braxton, and an accomplished tinkerer in his own right. What we're given with Mirrored, Battles' first album, is a sprawl of modular... (City Pages)
Today in History June 4 Jun 4, 2007
Jazz musician Anthony Braxton is 62. Singer Gordon Waller (Peter and Gordon) is. (MSNBC -- Race)
Rock out at local shows Jan 12, 2007
Dresser has made 10 solo albums since 1983, and is featured on more than 100 other albums by such kindred spirits as avant-jazz saxophonists Anthony Braxton and John Zorn, clarinetist Don Byron, trumpeter Dave Douglas and pianist (and fellow UCSD music professor) Anthony Davis. Hubbard, a composer and instrument-builder, is prolific in his own right. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
