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Old Dogs (avant09)

by Anthony Braxton & Gerry Hemingway

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about

Anthony Braxton & Gerry Hemingway, two modern jazz legends, are reunited after many years in this 4-CD boxed set of duo improvisations for saxes with drums, various percussion, and electronics.

Hemingway joined and remained a member of the infamous Anthony Braxton quartet for eleven years from 1983 - 1994. This set documents their first recorded collaboration in 12 years.

Using an hourglass as a guide, each CD contains one 60-minute improvisation, and each improvisation is very different in character and instrumentation. These studio recordings were made at Wesleyan University in August 2007.

Released to celebrate Braxton’s 65th birthday, the recordings are packaged in cardboard slipcase with paper sleeves for the CDs. The 12-page booklet includes liner notes by Graham Lock, and is illustrated with copious photos from the recording session.

“Two people on two hot June afternoons.
A studio, an experienced and appreciative engineer.
A deep need to find music.
Total improvisation on larger music that
existed, exists and will exist as long as there are voices.”
— John Heward on recording "Voices: 10 Improvisations," in June 2006

Joe McPhee (pocket trumpet, alto sax)
Since emerging on the creative jazz and new music scene in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Joe McPhee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a conceptualist and theoretician. He has worked with musicians ranging from Peter Brötzmann to Pauline Oliveros. McPhee has recorded for numerous labels including Hat Hut, CjR, Cadence, CIMP, Okkadisk, Music & Arts, and Victo.

John Heward (drums, kalimba, percussion)
is a Montreal-based drummer/painter/sculptor who has quietly become one of the world’s leading percussionist working in the field of contemporary improvised music, new music, and avant jazz. He has played with music luminaries including David Prentice, Glenn Spearman, Malcolm Goldstein, Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval, Lisle Ellis, Paul Bley, Joe Giardullo, and many others, who have sought him out during their Canadian sojourns. As Bill Smith of Coda put it, “John is one of Canada's foremost improvising percussionists.”

credits

released June 10, 2010

Anthony Braxton
Eb Sopranino, Bb Soprano, Eb Alto, C Melody, Eb Baritone, Bb Bass and Bb Contrabass saxophones

Gerry Hemingway
Drums, Marimba, Vibraphone, Steel Drums, Wood Blocks, Triggered and Non-triggered Samplers, Harmonica, Voice, Percussion

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