Track Listing 1. Off the Top of My Head 2. Silence 3. Crossing 4. Behemoth Dreams
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins | | Distributor: | Navarre | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes Full performer name: Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum. 2 LP's on 1 CD: SILENCE/TIME ZONES. Personnel: Anthony Braxton (various instruments, sopranino & alto saxophones, contrabass clarinet, reeds); Richard Teitelbaum (Moog & MicroMoog synthesizers); Leo Smith (various instruments, trumpet); Leroy Jenkins (various instruments, violin). Producers include: Anthony Braxton, Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins, Alan Bates. Engineers include: Bill Warren, Thomas Mark. Tracks 1 & 2 recorded in Paris, France on July 18, 1969; Track 3 recorded at the Creative Music Festival, Mount Tremper, New York on June 10, 1976; Track 4 recorded at Bearsville Sound, Suffern, New York on September 16, 1976. Includes liner notes by Leo Smith and Richard Teitelbaum. Though Anthony Braxton is known as one of the most experimental, forward-looking saxophonists in jazz, strongly influenced by avant garde classical music. Yet he's still found most often in the free jazz camp, as on SILENCE, the first half of this twofer, where he's joined by like-minded jazz compatriots Leo Smith and Leroy Jenkins. The most striking aspect of this disc is it's second half, the TIME ZONES album Braxton made in collaboration with electronic musician Richard Teitelbaum. The latter plays his modular synthesizer like a jazz instrument, if not exactly a tonal one, matching Braxton's avant garde blowing line for line in a display of atonal empathy.
Editorial Reviews 4 stars (out of 5) - ...TIME ZONES derives special value from Teitelbaum's improvisational skills as well as his remarkable ability to surround and enhance Braxton's reeds with electronic sounds... Down Beat (02/01/1998)
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