Duets (Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton album)

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Duets
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Studio album by
Released1978
RecordedDecember 13, 1976
Genre Jazz
Length40:53
Label Sackville
Producer John Norris
Anthony Braxton chronology
The Montreux/Berlin Concerts
(1975-76)
Duets
(1978)
Quintet (Basel) 1977
(1977)
Roscoe Mitchell chronology
Nonaah
(1977)
Duets
(1978)
L-R-G / The Maze / S II Examples
(1978)

Duets is an album by American jazz saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton recorded in 1976 and released on the Sackville label. [1]

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album 4 stars stating "this is a fine meeting between two of the most forward-looking thinkers and players in the music". [2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Track listing

  1. "Five Twenty One Equals Eight" (Roscoe Mitchell) - 4:52
  2. "Line Fine Lyon Seven" (Mitchell) - 1:15
  3. "Seven Behind Nine Ninety-Seven Sixteen or Seven" (Mitchell) - 2:37
  4. "Cards-Three and Open" (Mitchell) - 10:52
  5. "Composition 40Q" (Anthony Braxton) - 6:46
  6. "Composition 74B" (Braxton) - 6:35
  7. "Composition 74A" (Braxton) - 7:56

Personnel

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References

  1. Anthony Braxton discography accessed December 15, 2011
  2. 1 2 Olewnick, B. Allmusic Review accessed December 15, 2011
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 143. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.