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Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993

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Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993
Live album by
Released1997
Recorded19 July 1993
VenueKuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA
GenreJazz
Length185:06
LabelhatART CD 2-6190
ProducerLarry Blood
Anthony Braxton chronology
Twelve Compositions
(1993)
Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993
(1997)
Anthony Braxton's 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

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Professional ratings
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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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ Anthony Braxton discography accessed March 20, 2015
  2. ^ a b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed March 20, 2015
  3. ^ Murph, J., JazzTimes Review, November 1997