3 Compositions of New Jazz

by Anthony Braxton

3 Compositions of New Jazz cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1968
  • Label: Delmark
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:00
  • Community rating: 4.15/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recording for the legendary Chicago-based AACM, multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton debuted with an incredibly challenging, highly structured approach to free jazz. '3 Compositions of New Jazz' is remarkably sparse and fiercely avant-garde, utilizing highly complex, intensely dissonant acoustic improvisations that blur the line between modern classical music and surreal jazz expression.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, dissonant, improvisation, complex, acoustic, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. 840M (Realize)
  2. N/M488/44M/Z
  3. The Bell (10:26)

Credits

  • Anthony Braxton - primary artist, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, flute, musette, accordion, bells, snare [snare drum], mixed by
  • Muhal Richard Abrams - piano, cello, alto clarinet
  • Robert G. Koester - producer [album production and supervision]
  • Ron Pickup - recorded by
  • Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet, mellophone, xylophone, percussion [bottles], kazoo
  • Leroy Jenkins - violin, viola, harmonica, bass drum, recorder, cymbal, slide whistle

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