Junho
73º aniversário de Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton, compositor e multi-instrumentista norte-americano, é aclamado pela crítica como um dos mais importantes músicos dos últimos 50 anos.
Braxton tem uma carreira invulgarmente prolifera, com cerca de duas centenas de álbuns editados desde os anos sessenta, cobrindo áreas muito distintas: desde a composição de várias óperas à edição em 1969 de For Alto, o primeiro álbum de saxofone solo da história.
Um dos primeiros membros da AACM, as suas formações iniciais incluíram alguns dos músicos fundamentais do período pós-Coltrane, como Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, Leroy Jenkins, Muhal Richard Abrams e George Lewis. Braxton viria a associar-se igualmente a outros músicos que marcaram a história do jazz como Julius Hemphill, Sam Rivers e os pianistas Cecil Taylor e Dave Brubeck.
Nos anos setenta formou o grupo Circle, com Chick Corea, Dave Holland e Barry Altschul. A sua colaboração com Dave Holland resultou, entre outros, no belíssimo álbum Conference of the Birds.
Nos anos oitenta liderou aquele que é citado como um dos seus melhores grupos com Marilyn Crispell no piano, Mark Dresser no contrabaixo e Gerry Hemmingway na bateria.
Braxton exerceu uma influência decisiva em várias figuras de destaque da música actual como John Zorn, Steve Lehman, Tyshawn Sorey ou Mary Halvorson.
Formado em Filosofia pela Roosevelt University, e altamente atraído pela matemática e pelo xadrez, o compositor recebeu a distinção de génio pela MacArthur Fellowship, vencendo ainda vários prémios de grande prestígio como a Guggenheim Fellowship ou o Doris Duke Award.
Foram publicados vários livros sobre a música e a vida de Braxton com destaque para Time and Anthony Braxton, de Stuart Broomer.
Anthony Braxton actuará no Solilóquios, excepcionalmente não sendo um solo. Na noite do seu 73º aniversário, o músico terá uma convidada, a harpista norte-americana Jacqueline Kerrod.
“The new messiah, the new Charlie Parker-John Coltrane-Ornette Coleman,” The New Yorker (1975)
“Anthony Braxton pode bem ser a figura mais criativa e uma das mais controversas na música americana a emergir após a morte de John Coltrane, em 1967” Novos Horizontes no Jazz - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
"The Einstein of theoretical jazz physics" The Village Voice
"One of the most influential avant-garde composers of our time" BBC
“A scientist and an artist, Braxton seems content developing of his own musical galaxy. There's nobody quite like him” The Guardian
“Um dos mais importantes músicos de free-jazz de sempre, chefe de fila da área do Jazz mais próxima da música contemporânea” Jazzlogical
“All around genius” New York Times
“The most rigorously individualistic improviser of the last quarter century, Anthony Braxton defies easy categorization.” Chicago Reader
“Widely and critically acclaimed as a seminal figure in the music of the late 20th and early 21st century” All About Jazz
"Largely considered a genius (...) If it seemed like the music had run out of ideas, it might be because Anthony Braxton covered just about every conceivable area of creativity during the course of his extraordinary career." Allmusic
“Visionary composer” Rolling Stone
"The grandmaster's apocalyptic new music" The Wire
“Anthony Braxton is one of the most prolifically recorded composer/improvisers of our time” Jazztimes
"Some of the most exciting and challenging (and forgotten) American music was created by a rebellious generation of African-American geniuses in the 1960s: Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton, John Coltrane and the composer Sun Ra" LA Weekly
"Anthony Braxton may be the greatest creative force in contemporary music as well as one of the most controversial" Musicworks
“Anthony Braxton contains multitudes—perhaps to a greater extent than any other composer alive today." Pitchfork
"Anthony Braxton is recognized as one of the most important musicians, educators, and creative thinkers of the past 50 years, highly esteemed in the creative music community for the revolutionary quality of his work and for the mentorship and inspiration he has provided to generations of younger musicians” Roulette
“Anthony Braxton pode bem ser a figura mais criativa e uma das mais controversas na música americana a emergir após a morte de John Coltrane, em 1967” Novos Horizontes no Jazz - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
"The Einstein of theoretical jazz physics" The Village Voice
"One of the most influential avant-garde composers of our time" BBC
“A scientist and an artist, Braxton seems content developing of his own musical galaxy. There's nobody quite like him” The Guardian
“Um dos mais importantes músicos de free-jazz de sempre, chefe de fila da área do Jazz mais próxima da música contemporânea” Jazzlogical
“All around genius” New York Times
“The most rigorously individualistic improviser of the last quarter century, Anthony Braxton defies easy categorization.” Chicago Reader
“Widely and critically acclaimed as a seminal figure in the music of the late 20th and early 21st century” All About Jazz
"Largely considered a genius (...) If it seemed like the music had run out of ideas, it might be because Anthony Braxton covered just about every conceivable area of creativity during the course of his extraordinary career." Allmusic
“Visionary composer” Rolling Stone
"The grandmaster's apocalyptic new music" The Wire
“Anthony Braxton is one of the most prolifically recorded composer/improvisers of our time” Jazztimes
"Some of the most exciting and challenging (and forgotten) American music was created by a rebellious generation of African-American geniuses in the 1960s: Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton, John Coltrane and the composer Sun Ra" LA Weekly
"Anthony Braxton may be the greatest creative force in contemporary music as well as one of the most controversial" Musicworks
“Anthony Braxton contains multitudes—perhaps to a greater extent than any other composer alive today." Pitchfork
"Anthony Braxton is recognized as one of the most important musicians, educators, and creative thinkers of the past 50 years, highly esteemed in the creative music community for the revolutionary quality of his work and for the mentorship and inspiration he has provided to generations of younger musicians” Roulette
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Jacqueline Kerrod, descrita como tendo "virtuosismo e sensibilidade excepcionais", tem actuado em algumas das mais importantes salas dos EUA e Europa, como Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center e The Royal Albert Hall. Integra o ZIM sextet, de Anthony Braxton. “The evening’s most beguiling work came from the violinist Miranda Cuckson and the harpist Jacqueline Kerrod, who opened the concert with a rapt account of Mr. Currier’s neo-Impressionistic ‘Night Time’ ” — Steve Smith - New York Times |
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Segunda-feira, 4 junho, 21h30
73º aniversário de Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton, saxofones alto, soprano e sopranino | Jacqueline Kerrod, harpa
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