Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxtonis an American composer and instrumentalist. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s. Among the instruments he plays are 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 used to play flute and alto flute as well, but has since discontinued his use of these instruments...
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth4 June 1945
CityChicago, IL
Anthony Braxton quotes about
challenges fundamentals information
Evolution is the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will provide the kind of dynamic knowledge base that can assist the challenges of tomorrow (involving both fundamental and extended information).
music people possibility
...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.
real discipline esoteric
I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.
play african-american musician
I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.
real dedication offering
There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition of belief and dedication. Future historians will be surprised at the breadth of Mr. Fonda's offerings. This is a real virtuoso and composer of the highest order.
music gone jazz
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.
men interesting african-american
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.
way music-is convenient
The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.
america angry
Everybody in America is angry about something.
growing-up space lasts
Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.
narrative-structure guy intellectual
I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.
home feels
So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.
jazz concerned contemporary
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
art unity way
I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.