Anthony Braxton - Donna Lee

From "Donna Lee" (1972)

Anthony Braxton - Alto Saxophone
Michael Smith - Piano
Peter Warren - Double bass
Oliver Johnson - Drums


Un classico dell'era bebop qui ripreso da un jazzista di frontiera come braxton, il disco omonimo è tra i piu sconosciuti e meno considerati (ingiustamente x quello che è il mio modestissimo parere) della sua discografia.......commentate disgraziatiii!!!!! :-p

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• anthony
• braxton
• donna
• lee
• alto
• sax
• free
• bop

[noah35becker]

almost sounds like bass clarinet... is it really alto?

[MonkeyIslandBlues]

@noah35becker........yes i think it's an alto saxophone...but the sound is near bass clarinet like you say....

[talawa777]

Then hear him blaze on "Impressions" with Corea Dejohnette and Miroslav. Next add Methany and Konitz for "all Blues." If you still think he's taking the easy route then you mustn't know Jack. And I don't mean Dejohnette. I do. And I'll let him along with Konitz, Methany, Miroslav and Corea, all Gods, know that he can't play. Because you say so. What do you think real modern jazz men sound like?

[talawa777]

I was a teen in Woodstock NY, home of the Creative Music Studio.-Don Cherry, Baikida Carroll, Karl Burger,etc etc. We had a running joke about some of the students. Don't try to play out- side unless you can already play inside. Trust me the man can play inside -if he wanted to. Search for "woodstock Jazz Festival, Impressions" Watch him sing Lee Konitz his solo on "The Song is you" while Chick Corea and Karl Burger look on.

[edition81]

@talawa777 Coltrane had the technique and validity as an amazing musician/innovator. Intersellar Space, as well as anything on Impulse was amazing because John Coltrane played beautiful/innovative music for the time. Braxton is absolutely none of that. I am a little surprised that you would even consider putting him in the same sentence as Coltrane. There is a difference between a true seeker in music, and somebody who takes the easy route into the jazz world.

[talawa777]

jl15246. If your looking for a clean straight-been done a billion times version of DL- youtubes full of them. This man is a seeker, an explorer of outer dimensions using an old Bop vehicle as his take off platform. His "attempts" at free improvisation are incredible journeys at the level of Coltrane's interstellar space. Woody Herman he's not. A true artist he is!

[jl15246]

He has absolutely no technique or musical ability to back up his attempt at free improvisations...his rendition of the head is a dead giveaway.

[jl15246]

this is terrible, horrible musician

[yourockets3]

alto, alto :) by the way he never played bass clarinet 

[vacuumtube1954]

Braxton is the man, thanks for posting.

[GodardGodardGodard55]

@MonkeyIslandBlues .....E-flat Altosaxophone?

[nonamenanone]

OMG...avant-garde bebop !!!