1 March 2012

Anthony Braxton - Live in La Spezia and Pisa '78


The first concert (La Spezia) is probably incomplete, the second (Pisa) complete.

(1-5) Rec. live in La Spezia, Italy, on July 8, 1978
(6-13) Rec. live in Pisa, Italy, on July 11, 1978
(mics recording)

Anthony Braxton,alto sax

01. La Spezia #1 (06:27)
02. La Spezia #2 [Basin Street Blues] (06:36)
03. La Spezia #3 (06:42)
04. La Spezia #4 [Along Came Betty] (07:29)
05. La Spezia #5 (03:00)
06. Pisa #1 (11:35)
07. Pisa #2 (07:15)
08. Pisa #3 [Naima] (03:43)
09. Pisa #4 (07:22)
10. Pisa #5 (03:28)
11. Pisa #6 (05:29)
12. Pisa #7 (01:32)
13. Pisa #8 (03:57)

Total Time 1:14:42

Pisa #3 [Naima]
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17 comments:

  1. riccardo1 March 2012 at 14:11:00 CET

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  2. kike1 March 2012 at 15:54:00 CET

    Dear Riccardo,

    any chance to get this gem via mediafire or hotfile? RS for free user is really slow!

    Grazie in advance, Kike.

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  3. riccardo1 March 2012 at 17:17:00 CET

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  4. riccardo1 March 2012 at 18:16:00 CET

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  5. kike1 March 2012 at 19:52:00 CET

    Grazie Riccardo, bravissimo Braxton solo concert. It sounds great. My best regards, Kike.

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  6. prospettive musicali2 March 2012 at 00:10:00 CET

    Thank you, Riccardo. I attended that gig in La Spezia and I think that your recording could be complete, since that night several bands performed in that same festival, as you can see in http://www.speziajazz.it/cronologia
    The Spezia Festival has always been a very mainstream jazz festival. As far as I remember, Braxton performed there just as a last minute substitute for the Dexter Gordon band: otherwise he would have never been called to perform in such a conservative festival. And his solo show was quite a shock for a large part of the audience, who had to listen to Braxton while waiting for Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the following years, the average bank-clerk jazz-fans of La Spezia often mentioned that Braxton solo gig ad an example of how awful is avant jazz...

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  7. trane2 March 2012 at 18:03:00 CET

    Thanks as always Riccardo - btw, track 2 (La Spezia) is "St Louis blues"

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  8. JC2 March 2012 at 22:01:00 CET

    Thanks a lot.

    Thanks @prospettive musicali for the details and observation. I could see that...

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  9. riccardo2 March 2012 at 23:07:00 CET

    @ trane

    not so sure...

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  10. Anonymous3 March 2012 at 05:09:00 CET

    Hi Riccardo,

    Thanks for another great post of rare, unreleased material. Solo Braxton is always a welcome experience. Also, "La Spezia #2" is "Basin Street Blues."

    Best wishes,
    Thomas

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  11. riccardo3 March 2012 at 10:13:00 CET

    @ Thomas

    correct!

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  12. Anonymous25 July 2013 at 16:00:00 CEST

    any chance of a re-up of this gem ?

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  13. kinabalu26 July 2013 at 12:49:00 CEST

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  14. TEO16 January 2014 at 23:24:00 CET

    Thanks very much for this historic concert!!!
    It's possible to re-up the link?
    Thanks in advice!

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  15. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth17 January 2014 at 00:15:00 CET

    The link should work but Rapidshare is offline since about three hours.
    Maybe it will work tomorrow...

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  16. senorton12 May 2014 at 23:42:00 CEST

    Hello! Thank you so much for this site and this concert.

    RS link says "File not Found" :(

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  17. kinabalu17 October 2014 at 14:46:00 CEST

    New link:

    Adrive

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