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Anthony Braxton
real name Anthony Delano Braxton
American saxophonist and composer
Chicago, United States · b. 1945-06-04
Anthony Braxton is credited on 635 releases across 175 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1968–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
635
Credits
175
Albums
7
Decades active
39
In collections
Biography
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Born 4 June 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Influential experimental composer and saxophonist. Member of the AACM where he was influenced by mentors Muhal Richard Abrams and Roscoe Mitchell and friends Joseph Jarman, Wadada Leo Smith and Leroy Jenkins, among others. In 1969 Braxton recorded For Alto, the first full-length album for unaccompanied saxophone. Braxton's compositions are mostly titled with diagrams rather than words.
Braxton plays the sopranino, soprano, C-melody, F mezzo-soprano, E-flat alto, baritone, bass, and contrabass saxophones; the E-flat, B-flat, and contrabass clarinets; and the piano. He is John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. In 1994, Braxton was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant". In 2013, he was named a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
Father of Tyondai Braxton.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
635 releases · 175 albums · active 1968–2026
- Performance · 2,408
- Other credits · 379
- Production · 47
- Engineering · 28
- Mastering · 3
Studios: Generation Sound Studios · Studio Saravah · Allegro Sound Studios · Bearsville Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Duets 1976
1976
Conference Of The Birds
1973
All The Things We Are
1976
Emerald Tears
1978
Five Pieces 1975
1975
Seven Standards 1985, Volume I
1985
The Montreux / Berlin Concerts
1977
New York, Fall 1974
1975
In The Tradition
1974
Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun
1970
Burn The Incline
2000
One In Two - Two In One
1980
Circulus
1978
Rapport
1978
Wildflowers 2 (The New York Loft Jazz Sessions)
1977
Creative Construction Company Vol.II
1976
Circling In
1975
The Complete Braxton
1973
3 Compositions Of New Jazz
1968
Selected Recordings
2004
The Beginning
1996
Early Circle
1992
Birth And Rebirth
1978
Circulus Vol. 2
1978
Frequent collaborators
- Chick Corea
- Various
- Circle (5)
- Roscoe Mitchell
- Company (2)
- Anthony Braxton Quartet
- Creative Construction Company
- Dave Holland
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