Wesleyan (12 Altosolos) 1992

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Wesleyan (12 Altosolos) 1992
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Live album by Anthony Braxton
Released 1993
Recorded November 14, 1992
Venue Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Genre Jazz
Length71:42
Label hatART
CD 6128
Producer Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton chronology
(Victoriaville) 1992
(1992)		Wesleyan (12 Altosolos) 1992
(1993)		 Duets (1993)
(1993)

Wesleyan (12 Altosolos) 1992 is a live solo album by composer Anthony Braxton featuring a performance recorded at Wesleyan University which was released on the hatART label. [1]

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.

Hathut Records is a Swiss record company and label founded by Werner Xavier Uehlinger in 1974 that specializes in jazz and classical music. The name of the label comes from the artwork of Klaus Baumgartner. Huthut encompasses the labels hat ART, hatOLOGY, and hat NOIR.

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The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick stated "Wesleyan (12 Altosolos) 1992 fits quite comfortably into the extraordinary series of recordings of this artist which continued to unearth entirely new and wonderfully creative "language music" for the alto saxophone". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Anthony Braxton except where noted

  1. "No. 170i" – 4:50
  2. "No. 106d (+170b)" – 6:06
  3. "No. 170a" – 3:23
  4. "Charlie's Wig" (Charlie Parker) – 6:54
  5. "No. 170c (+77d+99f)" – 6:04
  6. "No. 170f (+138c+106g+119d+99d+119f)" – 8:28
  7. "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (George Bassman, Ned Washington) – 4:59
  8. "No. 170g" – 6:59
  9. "No. 106j (+106m)" – 4:08
  10. "No. 170h" – 5:28
  11. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) – 6:57
  12. "No. 118f" – 7:26

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Anthony Braxton discography accessed June 6, 2017
  2. 1 2 Olewnick, Brian. Wesleyan (12 Altosolos) 1992 – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved June 6, 2017.
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