Recorded live, June 1, 1974 at the 3rd International New Jazz Festival Moers, Germany.
German jazz festival Moers has been held annually at Pentecost since 1972. Founded by Burkhard Hennen who acted as artistic director until 2005. From 2006 until 2016 directed by Reiner Michalke.
Alto Saxophone, Composed By – Anthony Braxton
Design – Jürgen Pankarz
Mastered By – Paul Hubweber
Photography By [Back] – Alfred Bangert
Photography By [Front] – Alex Dutilh
Producer – Burkhard Hennen
Recorded By – Michael Krause (2), Norbert Freibrück
The Chicago-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton is recognized as one of the most important musicians, educators, and creative thinkers of the past 50 years. He is highly esteemed in the experimental music community for the revolutionary quality of his work and for the mentorship and inspiration he has provided to generations of younger musicians. His work, both as a saxophonist and a composer, has broken new conceptual and technical ground in the trans-African and trans-European (a.k.a. “jazz” and “American Experimental”) musical traditions in North America as defined by master improvisers such as Warne Marsh, John Coltrane, Paul Desmond, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, and he and his own peers in the historic Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM, founded in Chicago in the late '60s); and by composers such as Charles Ives, Harry Partch, and John Cage. He has further worked his own extensions of instrumental technique, timbre, meter and rhythm, voicing and ensemble make-up, harmony and melody, and improvisation and notation into a personal synthesis of those traditions with 20th-century European art music as defined by Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Varese and others.
