Five Pieces 1975
by Anthony Braxton
- Type: Album
- Released: 1975
- Label: Arista
- Country: United States
- Length: 31:00
- Community rating: 4.55/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A landmark album from one of the most important and influential groups in the history of the avant-garde. This album showcases Anthony Braxton's complex and brilliant compositions, which serve as intricate frameworks for collective improvisation. The interplay between Braxton's reeds and Kenny Wheeler's trumpet is a highlight, as they navigate the challenging material with incredible virtuosity and creativity. It's a key document of the structured, compositional approach to free jazz.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, saxophone, experimental, atonal, complex
Tracklist
- Composition 40 F (26:10)
- Composition 23 H (26:10)
- Composition 40 I
- You Stepped Out of a Dream (7:11)
Credits
- Anthony Braxton - primary artist, alto saxophone, clarinet, sopranino saxophone, flute, contrabass clarinet, alto flute, composed by [all compositions by]
- Robert L. Heimall - design
- Dave Holland - double bass [bass]
- Barry Altschul - drums
- Tony May - engineer [engineered by]
- Steve Backer - executive-producer
- Robert Palmer - liner notes
- Giuseppe Pino - photography by [front cover photography]
- Bill Smith - photography by [other photos]
- Michael Cuscuna - producer [produced by]
- Kenny Wheeler - trumpet, flugelhorn [fluegelhorn]
- Gus Kahn - words by
- Nacio Herb Brown - written-by