Avant-garde legend Anthony Braxton talks teaming up with Wilco's Nels Cline and Deerhoof's Greg Saunier for a new improv box set, and how Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin helped set him on his musical path
who understood that if a given Braxton work didn’t exemplify conventional jazz values, it’s probably because that wasn’t remotely the intent.dedicatee Jimi Hendrix, then, Braxton recognizes a kindred spirit: a musician who never let genre-based constraints box him in.
Braxton’s formative musical experiences actually came roughly a decade earlier. Long before he began forging his own soundworld, he was, as he puts it, “very much involved” with the doo-wop scene in his native Chicago. “People tend to think, ‘Oh, Anthony Braxton, he’s like some kind of robot guy who’s not even human. All he does is look at equations.’ But in fact, I’m a guy who grew up on the South Side of Chicago.”
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