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Is it in a similar vein?
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Maybe yes
Maybe no
Maybe maybe I don't know
Give it a listen
Hi Jay,
As for Braxton you can try his site at Tricentric Foundation. There are a couple of recordings in the "Bootleg" section that has Wheeler and Braxton playing together. Hope this will help you.
My good friend, Rick Kendrick, hosts a jazz radio program on KOOP in Austin, TX called "The Cutting Edge". He and I saw Braxton perform live in the 70's. He knows more about avante-garde jazz than anyone I know. I posed your question to him. Here is his response:
"The question may have been posed because Wheeler and Braxton played together for several years in the early- to mid-70s. So if the music in question is from that decade, the answer to the question would probably be yes. But both musicians have changed quite a bit since that time.
Wheeler has made numerous commerical recordings, some bordering on "new age," while Braxton is still often at the furthest reaches of experimentation, and has "composed" works that are several hours in length.
I like some of the recordings by both musicians and dislike some of the works by both musicians. I'd recommend finding one of those recordings of Braxton's quartet or quintet with Wheeler on it. Most of them are excellent."
You can stream Rick's show online on Sundays. Here's the link to the station.
and give a listen
you have an awful lot of ground to cover to get from Kenny Wheeler to Anthony Braxton......there are people who actually love both but those people have paid a lot of dues and have done a lot of listening. I can listen to braxton and wheeler but it sounds like you are just getting started....but I may be wrong.
Is his Monk cd, pretty standard, not to many excess and Mal Waldron on piano is a big plus. The recording quality is pretty good.
Very different, and controvertial although Braxton made quite a few very approachable recordings, such as his Charlie Parker project, and a few others, he can be very out and his playing may take some getting use too. A very different kettle of fish for sure.
I didn't think so.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
I agree with Travis.
Even though Wheeler was the trumpeter for the Anthony Braxton Quartet in the early to mid 70's, he has expressed his role as a sessions musician during this time and not really playing "his" music for a living (i think it was from a bbc doc).
Weird concept.
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