Six Compositions: Quartet

by Anthony Braxton

Six Compositions: Quartet cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Antilles
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 41:33
  • Community rating: 3.99/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Assembling a formidable acoustic quartet featuring Ed Blackwell, Mark Helias, and Anthony Davis, the revered composer navigates complex, heavily structured avant-garde frameworks. The record brilliantly showcases Braxton's unique graphic notation system, requiring intense precision while allowing for explosive, free-flowing group improvisations. It highlights his continuous evolution as a restless pioneer of the post-bop avant-garde.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, acoustic, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Composition No. 40B (8:32)
  2. Composition No. 69N (7:14)
  3. Composition No. 34 (62:36)
  4. Composition No. 40A (8:32)
  5. Composition No. 40G
  6. Composition No. 52

Credits

  • Wassily Kandinsky - artwork [front cover art, "black relationship. 1924"]
  • Mark Helias - double bass [bass], double bass instrument
  • Ed Blackwell - drums, drums (drum set) instrument
  • Anthony Davis - piano, piano instrument
  • Anthony Braxton - Primary Artist, contrabass clarinet instrument, alto saxophone instrument, tenor saxophone instrument, E-flat clarinet instrument

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