[Aman]

Braxton is releasing a monstrous 10-disc (9 CD + 1 DVD) box set, which I have already received from an old friend (who is the main producer of the release). I am definitely getting it signed down at the DMG by the man himself on the 28th - should be very exciting to finally meet my biggest musical influence by far!

Anyway, somebody's released a 6 minute preview of the DVD on YouTube, thought a few people would be interested in seeing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8OWAFbFGbA

I'm going to be catching every set of Mr. Braxton's run at the Iridium club in NYC. Anybody else attending?

 

[Aman]

No love for Mr. Braxton around these parts?

 

[clarke68]

I love Braxton's saxophone playing, and I like his music, but I haven't developed a love for it just yet. I haven't heard any of the GTM stuff, but what I've heard about it kinda suggests I wouldn't be in to it. Still, if he booked four nights at a club anywhere in the Bay Area you can bet I'd be there just the same.

 

[AudioJunkie]

Anthony Braxton is a master musician playing in the grand tradition of:

Charles Parker, Jackie McLean, Eric Dolphy,
Charlie Mariano, Sonny Stitt, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Dexter Gordon,
Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Don Byas, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lee
Konitz, Warne Marsh, Sidney Bechet, jimmy Giuffre, Roscoe
Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Henry Threadgill, David Murray, Ornetter Coleman,
Dewey Redman, Jimmy Lyons, Sonny Simmons, Kalaparush Maurice MacIntyre,
Charles Gayle, Albert Ayler, Steve Lacy, Charles Brackeen, John Tchicai,
Marion Brown, Elton Dean, Evan Parker, Peter Brotzmann, Paul Dunmall, David
S Ware, Frank Wright, Alan Wilkinson, Jim Denley, Stuart Porter, Neill
Duncan, Carlos Ward, Mats Gustaffson, Von Freeman, Steve Coleman, Greg Osby,
Maceo Parker, David Liebman,, Assif Tsahar, Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen,
Trevor Watts, Sean Bergin, Tobias Delius, Rob Brown, Kris Wanders, Gary
Bartz, Joe Henderson, Sonny Fortune, Dudu Pukwana, Mike Osborne, Oliver
Lake, Hamiett Bluiett, Werner Ludi, john Lurie, John Butcher, Arthur Blythe,
Bernie McGann, Carlos Actis Dato, John Zorn, Willem Breuker, Paul Flaherty,
Arthur Doyle etc etc..

I love his work in the jazz styles but also enjoy his other stuff.

He has been a great musical influence on me also.