Quartet: Live at Moers Festival

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Quartet: Live at Moers Festival
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Released1976
RecordedJune 2, 1974
Venue Moers Festival in Moers, Germany
Genre Jazz
Length32:20
Label Ring Ring 01010/11
Moers Music momu 01010/11
Producer Burkhard Hennen
Anthony Braxton chronology
Solo: Live at Moers Festival
(1974)
Quartet: Live at Moers Festival
(1976)
First Duo Concert
(1974)
Moers Music Cover
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Quartet: Live at Moers Festival is a live album by saxophonist/composer/improviser Anthony Braxton's Quartet recorded in 1974 at the Third International New Jazz Festival in Moers and originally released on the German Ring label in 1976 and the Moers Music label in 1977 as a double LP. [1] [2] [3]

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Track listing

All compositions by Anthony Braxton are graphically titled and the following attempts to translate the title to text.

  1. "6-------77--(NJD)--T AR--36K [Composition 23 B]" - 26:23
  2. "489M 70-2--(THB) M [Composition 23 E]" - 21:50
  3. "84°--KELVIN--M [Composition 40 O] Part I" - 1:42
  4. "84°--KELVIN--M [Composition 40 O] Part II" - 9:00
  5. "BOR---N-K64 (60)--M 0 H S [Composition 40 M]" - 18:15
  6. "F64-- H488 [Composition 23 F]" - 10:08
  7. "RBHM-F KNNK [Composition 23 D]" - 10:59

Personnel

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References

  1. Anthony Braxton discography accessed November 7, 2016
  2. Anthony Braxton catalog accessed November 7, 2016
  3. Anthony Braxton Project: 1971-1979 Chronology accessed November 7, 2016
  4. Quartet Live at Moers New Jazz Festival – Listing at AllMusic. Retrieved November 7, 2016.