Duo (Wesleyan) 1994

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Duo (Wesleyan) 1994
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Live album by Anthony Braxton and Abraham Adzinyah
Released December 1995
Recorded April 23, 1994
Venue Crowell Concert Hall, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Genre Jazz
Length101:00
Label Leo
CD LR 228/229
Producer Leo Feigin
Anthony Braxton chronology
Composition No. 174
(1994) Composition No. 1741994		Duo (Wesleyan) 1994
(1994)		 Duet: Live at Merkin Hall
(1994) Duet: Live at Merkin Hall1994

Duo (Wesleyan) 1994 is a live album by composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton with percussionist Abraham Adzinyah recorded at Wesleyan University in 1994 and released on the Leo label. [1] [2] [3]

Anthony Braxton American musician, composer, and philosopher

Anthony Braxton is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who is known in the genre of free jazz.

Wesleyan University private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831, Wesleyan is a baccalaureate college that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and sciences, grants research master's degrees in many academic disciplines, and grants PhD degrees in biology, chemistry, mathematics and computer science, molecular biology and biochemistry, music, and physics. Along with Amherst College and Williams College, Wesleyan is a member of the Little Three colleges. In the 2016 Forbes ranking of American colleges, which combines national research universities, liberal arts colleges and military academies in a single survey, Wesleyan University is ranked 9th overall.

Leo Records is a British record company and label which releases jazz from Russian, American, and British musicians. It concentrates on free jazz.

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The Allmusic review by Chris Kelsey stated "Braxton is never better than when he allows himself the most freedom. Here, though he is reined in a bit by the regular beat of Adzinyah's Middle-Eastern drumming, the saxophonist is relatively unencumbered by formal concerns; this is the best possible framework in which to hear Braxton's improvising. ... In contexts like this, Braxton is the most focused and intense of improvisors. It's evident, when listening to him play what is essentially "free" music, how little he really needs in the way of external organization. ... This set is a prime example of how transcendent an artist he can be, when left to his own devices". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Anthony Braxton and Abraham Adzinyah.

Disc one

  1. "Untitled" – 51:12

Disc two

  1. "Untitled" – 49:48

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Anthony Braxton discography accessed June 13, 2017
  2. ↑ Enciclopedia del Jazz: Anthony Braxton accessed June 13, 2017
  3. ↑ Leo Records Catalog accessed June 13, 2017
  4. 1 2 Kelsey, Chris. Duo (Wesleyan) 1994 – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved June 13, 2017.
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