Anthony Braxton discography

Last updated May 06, 2025

Discography for jazz saxophonist Anthony Braxton.

Discography

As leader/co-leader

1968: 3 Compositions of New Jazz (Delmark)
1969: For Alto (Delmark)
1969: Silence (Freedom)
1969: Anthony Braxton (BYG Actuel)
1970: This Time... (BYG Actuel)
1971: Recital Paris 71 (Futura)
1971: Together Alone (Delmark, [1974]) with Joseph Jarman
1971–1976: News from the 70s (Musica Jazz/Felmay, 1998)
1972: Saxophone Improvisations Series F (America)
1972: Town Hall 1972 (Trio)
1972: Donna Lee (America)
1974: In the Tradition (SteepleChase)
1974: In the Tradition Volume 2 (SteepleChase)
1974: Quartet: Live at Moers Festival (Ring)
1974: First Duo Concert (Emanem) with Derek Bailey
1974: Trio and Duet (Sackville) with Dave Holland, Leo Smith and Richard Teitelbaum
1974: New York, Fall 1974 (Arista)
1975: The Montreux/Berlin Concerts (Arista)
1975: Five Pieces 1975 (Arista)
1976: Creative Orchestra Music 1976 (Arista)
1976: Elements of Surprise (Moers) with George E. Lewis
1976: Donaueschingen (Duo) 1976 (hatART)
1976: Dortmund (Quartet) 1976 (HatART)
1976: Duets 1976 (Arista) with Muhal Richard Abrams
1976: Solo: Live at Moers Festival (Ring)
1977: Four Compositions (1973) (Denon)
1978: The Complete Braxton (Freedom)
1978: Creative Orchestra (Köln) 1978
1978: For Four Orchestras (Arista)
1978: Birth and Rebirth (Black Saint) with Max Roach
1978: For Trio (Arista)
1979: Performance (Quartet) 1979 (hatART)
1979: Anthony Braxton / Robert Schumann String Quartet (Sound Aspects)
1979: Seven Compositions 1978 (Moers)
1979: Alto Saxophone Improvisations 1979 (Arista)
1980: For Two Pianos (Arista)
1981: Composition No. 96 (Leo)
1982: Open Aspects '82 (hatART) with Richard Teitelbaum
1982: Six Duets (1982) (Cecma) with John Lindberg
1983: Composition 113 (Sound Aspects)
1983: Four Compositions (Quartet) 1983 (Black Saint)
1984: Prag 1984 (Quartet Performance) (Sound Aspects)
1985: Seven Standards (1985) Vols. 1 & 2 (Magenta)
1985: Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984 (Black Saint)
1985: Quartet (London) 1985 (Leo)
1986: Moment Précieux (Les Disques Victo)
1986: Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986 (Black Saint)
1988: 19 (Solo) Compositions, 1988 (New Albion)
1988: Ensemble (Victoriaville) 1988 (Victo)
1988: 2 Compositions (Järvenpää) 1988 (Leo) with Ensemble Braxtonia
1988: Solo (London) 1988 (Impetus)
1988: A Memory of Vienna with Ran Blake
1987: Six Monk's Compositions (1987) (Black Saint)
1988: Kol Nidre (Sound Aspects) with Andrew Voigt
1988: Zurich Concerts (Intakt) with the London Jazz Composers Orchestra
1988: The Aggregate (Sound Aspects) with Rova Saxophone Quartet
1989: Eugene (1989) (Black Saint)
1989: Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989 (hatART)
1989: Duets Vancouver 1989 (Music & Arts) with Marilyn Crispell
1990: Four Compositions (Solo, Duo & Trio) 1982/1988 (hatART)
1990: Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions, 1989: For Warne Marsh (hatART)
1991: Duets: Hamburg 1991 (Music & Arts) with Peter Niklas Wilson
1991: Duo (Amsterdam) 1991 (Okka Disk) with Georg Gräwe
1991: 2 Compositions (Ensemble) 1989/1991 (hatART)
1991: Six Compositions: Quartet (Antilles)
1991: Willisau (Quartet) 1991 (hatART)
1991: Composition 98 (hatART)
1992: Wesleyan (12 Altosolos) 1992 (hatART)
1992: (Victoriaville) 1992 (Victo)
1992: Composition No. 165 (for 18 instruments) (New Albion)
1993: Duets (1993) (Music & Arts) with Mario Pavone
1993: 9 Standards (Quartet) 1993 (Leo)
1993: Trio (London) 1993 (Leo) with Evan Parker and Paul Rutherford
1993: Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993 (hatART)
1993: Duo (Leipzig) 1993 (Music & Arts) with Ted Reichman
1993: Duo (London) 1993 (Leo) with Evan Parker
1994: Composition No. 174 (Leo)
1994: Small Ensemble Music (Wesleyan) 1994 (Splasc(h))
1994: Duo (Wesleyan) 1994 (Leo) with Abraham Adzenyah
1994: Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994, Vol. 1 (Leo)
1994: Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994, Vol. 2 (Leo)
1995: Twelve Compositions (Music & Arts)
1995: 11 Compositions (Duo) 1995 (Leo) with Brett Larner
1995: 10 Compositions (Duet) 1995 (Konnex) with Joe Fonda
1995: Octet (New York) 1995 (Braxton House)
1995: Solo Piano (Standards) 1995 (No More)
1995: Seven Standards 1995 (Knitting Factory) with Mario Pavone
1995: Ensemble (New York) 1995 (Braxton House)
1995: Four Compositions (Quartet) 1995 (Braxton House)
1995: Anthony Braxton's Charlie Parker Project 1993 (hatART)
1996: Piano Quartet, Yoshi's 1994 (Music & Arts)
1996: Composition 192 (Leo) with Lauren Newton
1996: Tentet (New York) 1996 (Braxton House)
1996: Duet: Live at Merkin Hall (Music & Arts) with Richard Teitelbaum
1996: Sextet (Istanbul) 1996 (Braxton House)
1996: 14 Compositions (Traditional) 1996 (Leo) with Stewart Gillmor
1996: Composition No. 102 for Orchestra & Puppet Theatre (Braxton House)
1996: Composition No. 173 (Black Saint)
1998: Compositions 10 & 16 (+101) (hatART)
1998: 4 Compositions (Washington D.C.) 1998 (Braxton House)
1998: Trillium R (Braxton House)
2000: Quintet (Basel) 1977 (hatOLOGY)
2000: Composition No. 94 for Three Instrumentalists (1980) (Golden Years of New Jazz)
2000: 9 Compositions (Hill) 2000 (CIMP)
2000: Ten Compositions (Quartet) 2000 (CIMP)
2000: Compositions/Improvisations 2000 (CIMP) with Scott Rosenberg
2000: Composition No. 247 (Leo)
2001: Composition No. 169 + (186 + 206 + 214) (Leo)
2001: 8 Compositions (Quintet) 2001 (CIMP)
2001: Four Compositions (GTM) 2000 (Delmark)
2002: Duets [Wesleyan] 2002
2002: 8 Standards (Wesleyan 2001)
2002: Quartet (Birmingham) 1985 (Leo)
2002: Quartet (Coventry) 1985 (Leo)
2002: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 1 (Leo)
2003: Two Compositions (Trio) 1998 (Leo)
2002: Solo (Köln) 1978
2003: Solo (Milano) 1979, Vol. 1
2003: Solo (NYC) 2002
2003: 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (Leo)
2003: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 2 (Leo)
2004: Triotone with György Szabados and Vladimir Tarasov (Leo)
2004: Duo Palindrome 2002 Vols. 1 and 2 (Intakt) with Andrew Cyrille
2005: Shadow Company
2005: 20 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (Leo)
2005: Six Standards (Quintet) 1996 (Splasc(H))
2005: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 3 (Leo)
2006: Live at the Royal Festival Hall (Leo)
2006: Compositions 175 & 126 (Leo)
2006: 4 Compositions (Ulrichsberg) 2005 (Leo)
2006: Duo (Victoriaville) 2005 (with Fred Frith)
2007: Trio (Victoriaville) 2007 (Victo)
2007: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 4 (Leo)
2007: Solo (Pisa) 1982 (Golden Years of New Jazz)
2007: Anthony Braxton & the AIMToronto Orchestra Creative Orchestra (Guelph) 2007 (Spool (record label))
2008: Quartet 2006: Ghost Trance Music (Important)
2008: Beyond Quantum (Tzadik)
2010: 19 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (Leo)
2010: Duets (Pittsburgh) 2008 (with Ben Opie) (OMP)
2010: Old Dogs (2007) (with Gerry Hemingway) (Mode)
2008: Quartet (Mestre) 2008 (Caligola)
2009: Improvisations (Duo) 2008 (with Maral Yakshieva) (SoLyd)
2009: Quartet (Moscow) 2008 (Leo)
2013: ABCD (NotTwo)
2013: Echo Echo Mirror House (Victo)
2013: Ensemble Montaigne (BAU 4) 2013 (Leo)
2013: Quartet Warsaw 2012
2014: 12 Duets (New Braxton House)
2014: Trio (New Haven) 2013
2016: 3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011 (Firehouse 12)
2016: Anthony Braxton: Trillium J (The Non-Unconfessionables) (New Braxton House)
2016: Quintet (Tristano) 2014 (New Braxton House)
2016: Duo (DCWM) 2013 (RogueArt)
2017: Solo (Victoriaville) 2017 (Victo)^[1]
2018: Sextet (Parker) 1993 (New Braxton House)
2019: Quartet (New Haven) 2014 (Firehouse 12)
2020: Duo (Improv) 2017 (New Braxton House)
2020: Duo (Bologna) 2018 (I Dischi Di Angelica)
2021: Quartet (Standards) 2020 (New Braxton House)
2022: Duet (Other Minds) 2021 (with James Fei) (Other Minds Records)

With Circle

Circle 1: Live in Germany Concert (CBS/Sony Japan, 1971) – recorded in 1970
Circle 2: Gathering (CBS/Sony Japan, 1971) – recorded in 1971
Paris Concert (ECM, 1972) – recorded in 1971
Circling In (Blue Note, 1975) – recorded in 1970
Circulus (Blue Note, 1978) – recorded in 1970

With Creative Construction Company

Creative Construction Company (Muse, 1975) – recorded in 1970
Creative Construction Company Vol. II (Muse, 1976) – recorded in 1970

As sideman

1968: Levels and Degrees of Light Muhal Richard Abrams (Delmark)
1969: The 8th of July 1969, Gunter Hampel (Birth)
1969: Black Suite , Jacques Coursil (BYG Actuel)
1969: Luna Surface , Alan Silva and his Celestrial Communications Orchestra (BYG Actuel)
1970: Afternoon of a Georgia Faun , Marion Brown (ECM)
1973: Conference of the Birds , Dave Holland (ECM)
1974: Royal Volume 1, Derek Bailey (Incus)
1975: For Players Only , Leroy Jenkins (JCOA Records)
1976: All The Things We Are , Dave Brubeck (Atlantic)
1977: The Iron Men , Woody Shaw (Muse)
1979: One in Two - Two in One , Max Roach (Hathut)
1979: Sketches from Bamboo , Roscoe Mitchell (Moers)
1985: Szabraxtondos, György Szabados (Hungaroton-Krém)
1992: Two Lines , David Rosenboom
1996: Eight by Three, Borah Bergman
2003: Organic Resonance , Wadada Leo Smith (Pi)
2003: Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace , Wadada Leo Smith (Pi)
2006: Black Vomit , Wolf Eyes

References

↑ "Anthony Braxton". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 September 2018.

see for full discography the German book: Timo Hoyer: Anthony Braxton – Creative Music. Wolke Verlag, Hofheim 2021.

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[AM_discog-1] "Anthony Braxton". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 September 2018.

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v t e Anthony Braxton
Discography
Studio albums	3 Compositions of New Jazz For Alto Anthony Braxton This Time... The Complete Braxton Together Alone Donna Lee Saxophone Improvisations Series F Four Compositions (1973) In the Tradition In the Tradition Volume 2 Trio and Duet New York, Fall 1974 Five Pieces 1975 Creative Orchestra Music 1976 Duets 1976 Duets For Four Orchestras For Trio Birth and Rebirth Seven Compositions 1978 Alto Saxophone Improvisations 1979 For Two Pianos Composition 98 Composition No. 96 Six Compositions: Quartet Open Aspects '82 Six Duets (1982) Four Compositions (Quartet) 1983 Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984 Seven Standards (1985) Vols. 1 & 2 Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986 Six Monk's Compositions (1987) Four Compositions (Solo, Duo & Trio) 1982/1988 A Memory of Vienna Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions, 1989: For Warne Marsh Duets: Hamburg 1991 Willisau (Quartet) 1991 4 (Ensemble) Compositions 1992 Four Compositions (GTM) 2000 Beyond Quantum
Live albums	Town Hall 1972 Solo: Live at Moers Festival Quartet: Live at Moers Festival First Duo Concert Elements of Surprise Donaueschingen (Duo) 1976 Dortmund (Quartet) 1976 The Montreux/Berlin Concerts Quintet (Basel) 1977 Creative Orchestra (Köln) 1978 One in Two – Two in One Performance (Quartet) 1979 Anthony Braxton / Robert Schumann String Quartet Composition No. 94 for Three Instrumentalists (1980) Solo (Pisa) 1982 Quartet (London) 1985 Quartet (Birmingham) 1985 Quartet (Coventry) 1985 19 (Solo) Compositions, 1988 Ensemble (Victoriaville) 1988 2 Compositions (Järvenpää) 1988 Eugene (1989) Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989 Willisau (Quartet) 1991 10 Compositions (Duet) 1995 Duo (Victoriaville) 2005 Trio (Victoriaville) 2007 9 Standards (Quartet) 1993 Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993 Two Compositions (Trio) 1998 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 20 Standards (Quartet) 2003 19 Standards (Quartet) 2003
With Circle	Paris Concert Circling In Circulus
With Creative Construction Company	Creative Construction Company Creative Construction Company Vol. II