Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993

Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993
Live album by Anthony Braxton
Released 1997
Recorded 19 July 1993 at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA
Genre Jazz
Length 185:06
Label hatART CD 2-6190
Producer Larry Blood
Anthony Braxton chronology

Twelve Compositions: Live at Yoshi's in Oakland, July 1993
(1993)		 Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993
(1993)		 Charlie Parker Project 1993
(1993)

Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993 is a double CD by American composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton recorded live in 1993 and released on the hatART label in 1997.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [2]

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states "This double CD documents with a finality just what the quartet had achieved in its eight years together. Braxton had realized within this group of musicians a goal he had previously thought unattainable: the ability to interchange any composition from any of his periods with any other -- and within each other -- in a small group setting. And given the far-reaching musical tenets each of these "sets of compositions" notated by tracks are, that is no mean feat".[2] The JazzTimes review by John Murph enthused "this exhausting yet fascinating two-disc adventure transports the listener to a cubist realm of terse tonal manipulations, extreme volume dynamics, and controlled collective chaos".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Anthony Braxton

Disc One:

  1. "Comp. 159 + (30 + 108a) / Comp. 40(o) / Comp. 69f / Comp. 173 / Comp. 69(o) / Comp. 52" - 76:06

Disc Two:

  1. "Comp. 172 / Comp. 161 / Comp. 69m / Comp. 23c / Comp. 124 + (108c + 147)" - 69:00

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Anthony Braxton discography accessed March 20, 2015
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed March 20, 2015
  3. ↑ Murph, J., JazzTimes Review, November 1997