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**Frownland** · 09-29-2015, 10:50 PM

Anthony Braxton - Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994, Vol. 1

Live sets from the Knitting Factory is usually a selling point on its own for me. Pair that with the fact that it's a Braxton release and you usually don't have to tell me anything else to get me to listen to it. On this album, Braxton plays piano and as much as he's a brilliant horn player, he desperately needs more albums featuring him on the keys. The songs start off leaving you with the impression that it's just another record full of standards, but as they progress, Braxton's voice becomes more and more overpowering and we end up in an entirely different world from the beginning. Worth checking out if you're into basically every type of jazz.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Anthony Braxton - Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994, Vol. 1 Live sets from the Knitting Factory is usually a selling point on its own for me. Pair that with the fact that it's a Braxton release and you usually don't have to tell me anything else to get me to listen to it. On this album, Braxton plays piano and as much as he's a brilliant horn player, he desperately needs more albums featuring him on the keys. The songs start off leaving you with the impression that it's just another record full of standards, but as they progress, Braxton's voice becomes more and more overpowering and we end up in an entirely different world from the beginning. Worth checking out if you're into basically every type of jazz. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x