Jan 16, 2024 11:55 AM
A Bounty of Documentaries
Last year was a good one for jazz and jazz-adjacent documentaries. Most prominent among them are the well-distributed…
The Black Men of Labor Club leads a second line parade, from the documentary City of a Million Dreams.
Jan 16, 2024 11:55 AM
Last year was a good one for jazz and jazz-adjacent documentaries. Most prominent among them are the well-distributed…
Sylvie Courvoisier, piano, and Mary Halvorson, guitar, perform at Other Minds.
Dec 14, 2021 4:23 PM
The mood at Other Minds 25 — an anniversary celebration for Other Minds, the San Francisco-based arts organization…
Anthony Braxton led two evenings of music during Skaņu Mežs in Latvia.
Oct 19, 2021 1:46 PM
Anthony Braxton once told author Graham Lock that he was less interested in playing one good gig than in establishing…
Whether riffing on his latest album, his dynastic jazz family, his formative experiences in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, his teaching experiences, his interest in science or his love of sports, Branford Marsalis speaks his truth.
Jan 6, 2020 11:38 AM
During 2019, DownBeat published hundreds of articles and album reviews. What’s below, though, are some features and…
Anthony Braxton performs Nov. 3 with his Zim Music ensemble during Jazzfest Berlin.
Nov 14, 2019 10:15 AM
Halfway through composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton’s six-hour opening performance at Jazzfest Berlin,…
The sound of pianist Marilyn Crispell changed following a trip to a festival in Stockholm: “I heard them playing stuff that really, really touched me.”
Oct 31, 2019 2:42 PM
In 1985, writer Graham Lock joined saxophonist Anthony Braxton and his band on a tour of England, making stops in…
Guitarist Nels Cline (left), composer/reedist Anthony Braxton, drummer Greg Saunier and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Ho Bynum recorded Quartet (New Haven) 2014 five years ago. The work only now is being released on Firehouse 12, an imprint based in New Haven, Connecticut.
Sep 30, 2019 2:58 PM
Speaking with Anthony Braxton is much like trying to improvise alongside the 74-year-old reedist: You need to stay on…
On Taylor Ho Bynum’s The Ambiguity Manifesto, members of his 9-tette, all respected improvisers and bandleaders, help make the bandleader’s shapeshifting pieces possible.
Sep 18, 2019 10:18 AM
Taylor Ho Bynum has spent his career navigating the intersection of structure and improvisation.
“I’ve always…
Anthony Braxton performs at the Edition Festival, which ran Feb. 7–10 in Stockholm.
Feb 28, 2019 10:50 AM
The centerpieces for the fourth iteration of Stockholm’s Edition Festival were two performances devoted to the music…
Artifacts—a trio comprising cellist Tomeka Reid, flutist Nicole Mitchell and percussionist Mike Reed—recently performed at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina.
Jun 18, 2018 4:09 PM
The trio Artifacts would have seemed a worthy one-off a few years ago. Organized in 2015 by cellist Tomeka Reid to play…
May 28, 2018 7:47 AM
There is a comforting ambience and routine awaiting the rush of visitors to Victoriaville, Quebec, for Festival…
Anthony Braxton performs at a 1993 gig that yielded some of the material on Sextet (Parker) 1993.
Mar 29, 2018 10:28 AM
In the early ’90s, not long after he joined the faculty of Connecticut’s Wesleyan University, Anthony Braxton…
Anthony Braxton, seen here in a publicity photo, headlined the 2017 October Revolution, which took place in Philadelphia Oct. 5–8.
Oct 13, 2017 8:09 AM
The Philadelphia jazz community claimed its own revolution on the first weekend of October, showing a bit of hometown…
The Wet Ink Ensemble payed tribute to avant-garde reedist Anthony Braxton on Jan. 20 at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, New York.
Mar 22, 2016 1:46 PM
How do you solve the age-old problem of the classical/jazz divide? Or for that matter, how do you approach the more…
Prolific saxophonist Anthony Braxton is the subject three box sets due out April 1.
Mar 22, 2016 1:42 PM
Last year was a busy one for the irrepressible Anthony Braxton. The saxophonist’s activities included a University of…
