''2 Compositions (Järvenpää) 1988'' is a live album by composer and saxophonist

Anthony Braxton Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto. Braxton grew up on the South Side of Ch ...

recorded in Finland in 1988 and first released on the Leo label on CD in 1996.Anthony Braxton discography
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Reception

The

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review by Chris Kelsey stated "Recorded with a septet of Finnish musicians that manifests a pronounced affinity for his music, Braxton's Compositions No. 144 and 145 are given a vigorous, warm, and reasonably tight rendering, of a sort made difficult by the usual lack of rehearsal time and scarcity of appropriate collaborators. The soloists, including and especially the leader, are uniformly excellent, but most importantly, the written parts are realized in a way that does justice to the concept".

Track listing

# "Composition N. 144 / Composition N. 145" (Anthony Braxton) - 70:21

Personnel

- flute, sopranino saxophone, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone *Mircea Stan -

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

*Pentti Lahti - flute, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone *Pepa Päivinen - flute,

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet *Seppo Baron Paakkunainen - flute, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone *Mikko-Ville Luolajan-Mikkola -

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

* Teppo Hauta-aho - bass,

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G ...

*Jukka Wasama - drums

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:2 Compositions Jarvenpaa 1988 Leo Records live albums Anthony Braxton live albums 1996 live albums