Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton (1986)

Interview by Mark Sinker, Rock's Backpages audio, 1986

Braxton talks about the difficulties that come with playing avant garde music; what he's interested in investigating; the struggle to find musicians he can work with; his interest in European musical traditions; playing solo, and in saxophone quartetes; how the jazz community is resistant to his ideas; his disinterest in technique; playing with Derek Bailey, and collective improvisation; how he sees music today, and his place in it.

File format: mp3; file size: 42.7mb, interview length: 44' 31" sound quality: **

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Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 15 November 1985

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