Prag 1984 (Quartet Performance)

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Prag 1984 (Quartet Performance)
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Live album by Anthony Braxton
Released 1990
Recorded October 1984
Venue Prague International Jazz Festival, Prag, Czechoslovakia
Genre Jazz
Length59:59
Label Sound Aspects
SAS 038
Producer Pedro de Freitas
Anthony Braxton chronology
Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984
(1984)		Prag 1984 (Quartet Performance)
(1990)		 Seven Standards 1985, Volume 1
(1985)
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Prag 1984 (Quartet Performance) is a live album by composer/saxophonist Anthony Braxton recorded at the Prague International Jazz Festival in 1984 and released on the Sound Aspects label. [2] [3] [4]

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Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Anthony Braxton

  1. Announcement – 0:52
  2. "Composition 105A / Composition 110A / Composition 114 / Composition 69H" – 59:07

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Prag (Quartet-1984) – Listing at AllMusic. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ Anthony Braxton discography accessed June 6, 2017
  3. ↑ Sound Aspects Records Listing accessed June 6, 2017
  4. ↑ Filippo, R., Eenciclopedia del Jazz: Anthony Braxton accessed June 6, 2017
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