Braxton, Anthony

Performance (Quartet) 1979

Label: Hatology Country: Switzerland

Anthony Braxton's and Ray Anderson's 1979 quartet interpreting seven of Braxton's compositions with remarkable results. "The great advantage of having complete live concerts on record is that we can hear also those intriguing spaces between the compositions: the improvisations which take the group from point A to point B are also the areas in which some of Braxton's most radical notions have first been voiced. As we shall see, Performance (Quartet) 1979 is of particular interest in this regard."-Graham Lock, from the back cover