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Brassy brilliance from Braxton
Anthony Braxton
[Michael Hoefner]
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Anthony Braxton's Zim Septet
Cafe Oto, London
OUT of his breath comes such complexity and profundity of three-quarters of a century of musical sound, whether on alto sax, sopranino or contra bass clarinet.
This is Chicago-born Anthony Braxton who, after his military service, became part of the Association of the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
He made his recording debut in 1966 and has never stopped innovating ever since, even writing his musical titles as diagrams and notations as squiggling shapes.
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