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Six Compositions: Quartet

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Released
  
1982

Length
  
33:41

Producer
  
Anthony Braxton

Release date
  
1982

Recorded
  
October 21 & 22, 1981

Label
  
AntillesAN 1005

Artist
  
Anthony Braxton

Genre
  
Jazz

Studio
  
Generation Sound Studios, NYC

Similar
  
Anthony Braxton albums, Jazz albums

Six Compositions: Quartet is an album by American saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton recorded in 1981 and released on the Antilles label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated "Braxton seems quite comfortable playing this complex music, and his diagrams (which serve as song titles) are actually fairly humorous".

Track listing

All compositions by Anthony Braxton are graphically titled and the following attempts to translate the title to text.

  1. "Unpk X [Composition No. 40B]" - 7:09
  2. "Eggg (Mc- [Composition No. 69N]" - 7:52
  3. "Pzq M C Wh [Composition No. 34]" - 6:17
  4. "Dk(Rhx) T U Gil-6 [Composition No. 40A]" - 9:04
  5. "M R Rjm D [Composition No. 40G]" - 5:00
  6. "G-Ho Mhh Rwp [Composition No. 52]" - 6:11

Personnel

  • Anthony Braxton – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, E♭ soprano saxophone, contrabass clarinet
  • Anthony Davis - piano
  • Mark Helias - bass
  • Ed Blackwell - drums

    • References

    Six Compositions: Quartet Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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