Anthony Braxton and the Italian Instabile Orchestra - Composition no.92 - Alto Adige Festival, Bolzano, June 2007

This was broadcast by RAI3 earlier this week, and I have not been able to stop listening to it, despite the distractions of Euro 2008. It's a performance of Composition no. 92, for Creative Orchestra, and probably some other pieces that I haven't yet been able to identify - your help here would be appreciated.

Excellent photos of the orchestra, and score, are available here and here.

It's good to see this piece - written in 1979 - being played with such sympathy almost three decades later. For me, this piece is essentially about music, and Braxton's response to 'tradition and the individual talent', in contrast with, say composition no. 356 posted here earlier - which I think is more an ontological study of the nature of consciousness, and hence perhaps one measure of how Braxton's music has evolved over this time.

Alto Adige Jazz Festival

Italian Instabile Orchestra con Anthony Braxton

Castel Mareccio, 25th Südtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige

Bolzano, Italy

16th June 2007

01 Radio intro (5.29)

02 Composition no. 92 (+ ?) (67.59)

03 Radio outro (0.18)

source: RAI Radio3 > Yamaha HD1300 > CDR

Anthony Braxton - as, cond, comp

Carlo Actis Dato - ts, bars, bcl

Daniele Cavallanti - ts, bars

Eugenio Colombo - as, ss, fl

Gianluigi Trovesi - as, bcl

Pino Minafra - tp, flh

Alberto Mandarini - tp

Guido Mazzon - tp

Martin Mayes - cor

Lauro Rossi - tb

Giancarlo Schiaffini - tb, tuba

Sebi Tramontana - tb

Emanuele Parrini - vio

Paolo Damiani - b, cello

Giovanni Maier - b

Umberto Petrin - p

Vincenzo Mazzone - dr