Discography for jazz saxophonist Anthony Braxton.
Discography As leader/co-leader 1968: 3 Compositions of New Jazz (Delmark, 1968) 1969: For Alto (Delmark, 1971) 1969: Silence (Freedom, 1975) 1969: Anthony Braxton (BYG Actuel, 1969) 1970: This Time... (BYG Actuel, 1970) 1971: Recital Paris 71 (Futura, 1971) 1971: The Complete Braxton 1971 (Arista Freedom, 1977) 1971: The Complete Braxton (Freedom, 1973) 1971: Together Alone with Joseph Jarman (Delmark, 1974) 1972: Donna Lee (America, 1972) 1972: Saxophone Improvisations Series F (America, 1972) 1972: Town Hall 1972 (Trio, 1972) – live 1973: Four Compositions (1973) (Denon, 1977) 1974: In the Tradition (SteepleChase, 1974) 1974: In the Tradition Volume 2 (SteepleChase, 1976) 1974: Solo: Live at Moers Festival (Ring, 1976) – live 1974: Quartet: Live at Moers Festival (Ring, 1976) – live 1974: First Duo Concert with Derek Bailey (Emanem, 1974) – live 1974: Trio and Duet (Sackville, 1974) 1974: New York, Fall 1974 (Arista, 1975) 1975: Five Pieces 1975 (Arista, 1975) 1975–1976: The Montreux/Berlin Concerts (Arista, 1977) 1971–1976: News from the 70s (Musica Jazz/Felmay, 1998) 1976: Creative Orchestra Music 1976 (Arista, 1976) 1976: Elements of Surprise with George E. Lewis (Moers, 1985) – live 1976: Duets 1976 (Arista, 1976) – with Muhal Richard Abrams 1976: Donaueschingen (Duo) 1976 (hatART, 1994) – live 1976: Dortmund (Quartet) 1976 (HatART, 1991) – live 1977: Quintet (Basel) 1977 (hatOLOGY, 2000) – live 1977: For Trio (Arista, 1978) 1978: Solo (Köln) 1978 (Golden Years of New Jazz , 2002) – live 1978: Creative Orchestra (Köln) 1978 (hatART, 1995) – live 1978: For Four Orchestras (Arista, 1978) 1978: Birth and Rebirth with Max Roach (Black Saint, 1978) 1978–1979: Alto Saxophone Improvisations 1979 (Arista, 1979) 1979: Solo (Milano) 1979, Vol. 1 (Golden Years of New Jazz, 2003) 1979: Performance (Quartet) 1979 (hatART, 1981) – live 1979: Anthony Braxton / Robert Schumann String Quartet (Sound Aspects, 1986) – live 1979: Seven Compositions 1978 (Moers, 1980) 1980: Composition No. 94 for Three Instrumentalists (1980) (Golden Years of New Jazz, 1999) – live 1980: For Two Pianos (Arista, 1982) 1981: Composition 98 (hatART, 1981) 1981: Composition No. 96 (Leo, 1989) 1981: Six Compositions: Quartet (Antilles, 1982) 1982: Open Aspects '82 with Richard Teitelbaum (hatART, 1982) 1982: Six Duets (1982) with John Lindberg (Cecma, 1982) 1982: Solo (Pisa) 1982 (Golden Years of New Jazz, 2007) – live 1983: Four Compositions (Quartet) 1983 (Black Saint, 1983) 1983: Composition 113 (Sound Aspects, 1984) 1984: Prag 1984 (Quartet Performance) (Sound Aspects, 1990) – live 1985: Seven Standards (1985) Vols. 1 & 2 (Magenta, 1985) 1985: Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984 (Black Saint, 1985) 1985: Quartet (London) 1985 (Leo, 1988) – live 1985: Quartet (Birmingham) 1985 (Leo, 1991) – live 1985: Quartet (Coventry) 1985 (Leo, 1987) – live 1986: Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986 (Black Saint, 1986) 1986: Moment Précieux with Derek Bailey (Les Disques Victo, 1987) 1987: Six Monk's Compositions (1987) (Black Saint, 1987) 1988: 19 (Solo) Compositions, 1988 (New Albion, 1989) – live 1988: Solo (London) 1988 (Impetus, 1991) 1988: The Aggregate with Rova Saxophone Quartet (Sound Aspects, 1988) – live 1988: Ensemble (Victoriaville) 1988 (Victo, 1992) – live 1988: 2 Compositions (Järvenpää) 1988 (Leo, 1996) – live with Ensemble Braxtonia 1988: A Memory of Vienna with Ran Blake (hatOLOGY, 1997) 1988: Four Compositions (Solo, Duo & Trio) 1982/1988 (hatART, 1989) 1988: Kol Nidre with Andrew Voigt (Sound Aspects, 1990) 1989: Eugene (1989) (Black Saint, 1989) – live with the Northwest Creative Orchestra 1989: Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989 (hatART, 1990) – live 1989: Duets Vancouver 1989 with Marilyn Crispell (Music & Arts, 1990) – live 1989: Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions, 1989: For Warne Marsh (hatART, 1990) 1991: Duets: Hamburg 1991 with Peter Niklas Wilson (Music & Arts, 1992) 1991: 2 Compositions (Ensemble) 1989/1991 (hatART, 1992) 1991: Willisau (Quartet) 1991 (hatART, 1992) – partially live 1991: Duo (Amsterdam) 1991 with Georg Gräwe (Okka Disk, 1997) – live 1992: Composition No. 165 (for 18 instruments) (New Albion, 1992) – live 1992: (Victoriaville) 1992 (Victo, 1993) – live 1992: Wesleyan (12 Altosolos) 1992 (hatART, 1993) – live 1993: Duets (1993) with Mario Pavone (Music & Arts, 1993) 1993: 9 Standards (Quartet) 1993 (Leo, 1993) – live 1993: Trio (London) 1993 with Evan Parker and Paul Rutherford (Leo, 1994) 1993: Duo (London) 1993 with Evan Parker (Leo, 1993) 1993: Twelve Compositions (Music & Arts, 1994) – live 1993: Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993 (hatART, 1997) – live 1993: Anthony Braxton's Charlie Parker Project 1993 (hatART, 1995) 1993: Sextet (Parker) 1993 (New Braxton House, 2018)[11CD] 1993: Duo (Leipzig) 1993 (Music & Arts, 1995) – with Ted Reichman 1994: Composition No. 174 (Leo, 1994) – live 1994: Compositions 175 & 126 (Leo, 2006)[2CD] 1994: Duo (Wesleyan) 1994 with Abraham Adzenyah (Leo, 1995) – live 1994: Duet: Live at Merkin Hall with Richard Teitelbaum (Music & Arts, 1996) – live 1994: Piano Quartet, Yoshi's 1994 (Music & Arts, 1996) – live 1994: Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994, Vol. 1 (Leo, 1995) – live 1994: Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994, Vol. 2 (Leo, 2000) – live 1994: Small Ensemble Music (Wesleyan) 1994 (Splasc(h), 1999) – live 1994: Composition No. 173 (Black Saint, 1996) 1995: Seven Standards 1995 with Mario Pavone (Knitting Factory, 1995) 1995: 11 Compositions (Duo) 1995 with Brett Larner (Leo, 1997) – live 1995: 10 Compositions (Duet) 1995 with Joe Fonda (Konnex, 1996) – live 1995: Four Compositions (Quartet) 1995 (Braxton House, 1997) – live 1995: Six Standards (Quintet) 1996 (Splasc(H), 2004) – live 1995: Octet (New York) 1995 (Braxton House, 1997) – live 1995: Ensemble (New York) 1995 (Braxton House, 1997) – live 1995: Solo Piano (Standards) 1995 (No More, 1996?)[2CD] 1996: 14 Compositions (Traditional) 1996 with Stewart Gillmor (Leo, 1998) – live 1996: Composition No. 102 for Orchestra & Puppet Theatre (Braxton House, 1996) – live 1996: Composition 192 with Lauren Newton (Leo, 1998) – live 1996: Tentet (New York) 1996 (Braxton House, 1998) – live 1996: Sextet (Istanbul) 1996 (Braxton House, 1996) – live 1996: Trillium R (Braxton House, 1999)[4CD] 1997: Compositions 10 & 16 (+101) (hatART, 1998) 1997: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 1 (Leo, 2002) – live 1997: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 2 (Leo, 2002) – live 1997: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 3 (Leo, 2005) – live 1997: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 4 (Leo, 2002) – live 1998: Two Compositions (Trio) 1998 (Leo, 2003) – live 1998: 4 Compositions (Washington D.C.) 1998 (Braxton House, 1999)[2CD] 2000: Four Compositions (GTM) 2000 (Delmark, 2003) 2000: Composition No. 247 (Leo, 2000) 2000: Nine Compositions (Hill) 2000 (CIMP, 2001) 2000: Ten Compositions (Quartet) 2000 (CIMP, 2000) 2000: Compositions/Improvisations 2000 (CIMP, 2000) – with Scott Rosenberg 2000: Composition No. 169 + (186 + 206 + 214) (Leo, 2001) 2001: Eight Compositions (Quintet) 2001 (CIMP, 2001) 2001: 8 Standards (Wesleyan 2001) (Barking Hoop Recordings , 2002)[2CD] 2002: Duets [Wesleyan] 2002 with Taylor Ho Bynum (Innova Recordings, 2002) 2002: Solo (NYC) 2002 ( Parallactic Recordings, 2003) 2002: Duo Palindrome 2002 Vols. 1 and 2 (Intakt) with Andrew Cyrille (Intakt, 2004) 2003: ABCD (NotTwo, 2013) 2003: Triotone with György Szabados and Vladimir Tarasov (Leo, 2004) 2003: 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (Leo, 2004) – live 2003: 20 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (Leo, 2005) – live 2003: 19 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (Leo, 2010) – live 2004: Shadow Company with Milo Fine (Emanem, 2005) 2004: Live at the Royal Festival Hall (Leo, 2006) – live 2005: Duo (Victoriaville) 2005 with Fred Frith (Les Disques Victo, 2006) 2005: Quartet 2006: Ghost Trance Music (Important, 2008)[4CD] – live 2005: 4 Compositions (Ulrichsberg) 2005 (Phonomanie VIII) (Leo, 2006)[4CD] 2007: Trio (Victoriaville) 2007 (Victo, 2007) – live 2007: Old Dogs (2007) with Gerry Hemingway (Mode, 2010)[4CD] 2007: Anthony Braxton & the AIMToronto Orchestra Creative Orchestra (Guelph) 2007 (Spool, 2009) 2008: Beyond Quantum (Tzadik, 2008) 2008: Duets (Pittsburgh) 2008 with Ben Opie (OMP, 2010)[2CD] 2008: Quartet (Moscow) 2008 (Leo, 2009) – live 2008: Quartet (Mestre) 2008 (Caligola, 2008) 2008: Improvisations (Duo) 2008 with Maral Yakshieva (SoLyd, 2009)[2CD] 2011: 3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011 (Firehouse 12, 2016)[3CD] 2011: Echo Echo Mirror House (Victo, 2013) – live 2012: 12 Duets (New Braxton House, 2014)[12CD] 2012: Quartet Warsaw 2012 (For Tune, 2013) 2013: Trio (New Haven) 2013 (New Braxton House, 2014)[4CD] 2013: Ensemble Montaigne (BAU 4) 2013 (Leo, 2013) 2013: Duo (DCWM) 2013 (RogueArt, 2016)[2CD] 2014: Quintet (Tristano) 2014 (New Braxton House, 2016)[7CD] 2014: Trillium J (The Non-Unconfessionables) (New Braxton House, 2016)[4CD + Blu-ray] – live 2014: Quartet (New Haven) 2014 (Firehouse 12, 2019)[4CD] 2017: Solo (Victoriaville) 2017 (Victo, 2017) – live 2017: Duo (Improv) 2017 with Eugene Chadbourne (New Braxton House, 2020)[8CD] 2018: Duo (Bologna) 2018 with Jacqueline Kerrod (I Dischi Di Angelica, 2020) 2020: Quartet (Standards) 2020 (New Braxton House, 2021)[13CD] 2021: Duet (Other Minds) 2021 with James Fei (Other Minds, 2022) – live
As a member Circle Circle 1: Live in Germany Concert (CBS/Sony Japan, 1971) – rec. 1970 Circle 2: Gathering (CBS/Sony Japan, 1971) – rec. 1971 Paris Concert (ECM, 1972) – rec. 1971 Circling In (Blue Note, 1975) – rec. 1970 Circulus (Blue Note, 1978) – rec. 1970
Creative Construction Company Creative Construction Company (Muse, 1975) – rec. 1970 Creative Construction Company Vol. II (Muse, 1976) – rec. 1970
As sideman 1968 Muhal Richard Abrams, Levels and Degrees of Light (Delmark) 1969 Gunter Hampel, The 8th of July 1969 (Birth) 1969 Jacques Coursil, Black Suite (BYG Actuel) 1969 Alan Silva and his Celestrial Communications Orchestra, Luna Surface (BYG Actuel) 1970 Marion Brown, Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (ECM) 1973 Dave Holland, Conference of the Birds (ECM) 1974 Derek Bailey, Royal Volume 1 (Incus) 1975 Leroy Jenkins, For Players Only (JCOA) 1976 Dave Brubeck, All The Things We Are (Atlantic) 1977 Woody Shaw, The Iron Men (Muse) 1979 Max Roach, One in Two - Two in One (Hathut) 1979 Roscoe Mitchell, Sketches from Bamboo (Moers) 1985 György Szabados, Szabraxtondos (Hungaroton-Krém) 1988 Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Zurich Concerts (Intakt) 1995 David Rosenboom, Two Lines (Lovely) 1997 Borah Bergman, Eight by Three (Mixtery) 2003 Wadada Leo Smith, Organic Resonance (Pi) 2003 Wadada Leo Smith, Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace (Pi) 2006 Wolf Eyes, Black Vomit (Les Disques Victo)
References
see for full discography the German book: Timo Hoyer: Anthony Braxton – Creative Music. Wolke Verlag, Hofheim 2021.
External links Discogs entry