Anthony Braxton 60th Birthday Collection

[blake]

Please take a look at the e-mail below from Franz Fuchs (moderator of the Yahoo Braxton group) and give it some consideration.

For those of you who are interested in getting a hold of some of Mr. Braxton's OOP Arista and Ring recordings (never released on CD) I am happy to help you. (Note: Mr. Braxton has approved this action.) Below is the list of albums I have available on CD-R. I'd prefer to distribute them via trades but if you are generous enough to make a donation to Mr. Braxton I may just send them to you free of charge (better than a cobalt blue travel mug from NPR, right?) ;-)

Creative Music Orchestra (Ring 01024/5/6) 1972 - 2 Discs

Quartet Live at Moers Festival (Ring 01010-11) 1974 - 2 Discs

New York, Fall 1974 (Arista AL 4032) 1974 - 1 Disc

Five Pieces 1975 (Arista AL 4064) 1975 - 1 Disc

The Montreux/Berlin Concerts (Arista AL 5002) 1975 - 2 Discs

Duets 1976 (Arista AL 4101) 1976 - 1 Disc

Creative Orchestra Music (Arista AL 4080) 1976 - 1 Disc

For Trio (Arista AL 4181) 1978 - 1 Disc

For Four Orchestras (Arista A3L 8900) 1978 - 3 Discs

Alto Saxophone Improvisations (Arista A2L 8602) 1978 - 2 Discs

For Two Pianos (Arista AL 9559) 1980 - 1 Disc

Hamburg 1981 (TV broadcast; performance of Comp. 98) - 1 DVD

Cheers,

Greg

-----Original Message-----

From: Anthony_BRAXTON@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Anthony_BRAXTON@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Franz Fuchs

Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 2:54 PM

To: Anthony_BRAXTON@yahoogroups.com;

Subject: [braxton] Anthony Braxton 60th Birthday Collection

On June 4th multi-instrumentalist/composer/writer/teacher Anthony

Braxton will be turning 60. 2005 is his 39th year in Creative Musics and

38 years have passed since his recording debut on (Muhal) Richard

Abrams' "Levels And Degrees of Light". One outcome of Braxton's

never-wavering dedication over these four decades is a qualitively

astounding discography of nearly 250 albums.

Braxton's birthday provides a great opportunity for us to show our

appreciation - not only of his music but for him as an artist who held

out through rough times (like the first half of the 80s or the period

after his expensive opera project "Trillium R", 1996).

Mr. Braxton has been quite generous about his fans' sharing of OOP

records (for example the scandalously unavailable Arista albums!) and

even encourages it. So if you partook in trading/downloading this

material or live bootlegs or if you simply want to make a birthday

present you can do this now through the "Anthony Braxton 60th Birthday

Collection".

The procedure: Click on

Anthony Braxton 60th Anniversary Donation Page

This link leads to the following PayPal page

paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=gregory%2es%2eblake%40fri

tolay%2ecom&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD&lc=US

and are provided for better usability.

The "AB60thBC" utilizes a PayPal business account. Therefore donors

don't need to be PayPal members and can send their contributions also

with their credit cards. Only 1.5% PP transaction fees will be deducted

from each donation - the rest will be taken over by us.

*Mr. Braxton will get 98.5% of the total sum of the

contributions.*

Once the campaign has ended (June 30th), the money will be sent to

Braxton via check. Proof that he got it will be provided with scans of

the transaction stub and/or a message from Mr. Braxton.

Braxton himself doesn't know about this initiative yet.

Please forward this mail (or only the link to the PP account page) to

any person that might be interested in contributing to the campaign.

Thanks in advance for any donation!

Regards

Greg Blake - manager of the "AB 60th birthday" PP account

Franz Fuchs - moderator of the Braxton mailing list

Once again, please click on the following link to make a donation.

Anthony Braxton 60th Anniversary Donation Page

Some additional links:

- Anthony Braxton And The Tri-Centric Foundation

(+ Braxton House label)

http://www.restructures.net/BraxDisco/BraxDisco.htm

- Jason Guthartz's Braxton discography

http://www.restructures.net/BraxDisco/BraxDisco.htm

- The Restructures link library with articles on & interviews

with Braxton

http://www.restructures.net/links/links.htm#B

- Yahoo mailing list (founded in 1999)

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anthony_BRAXTON/

- Braxton audio lecture 1985 (nearly two hours!) at

Other Minds/Internet Archive

http://makeashorterlink.com/?D5C21257A

- Interview with Downbeat's John Corbett (1994)

http://makeashorterlink.com/?C11F429FA

- Interview with Fred Jung (2001)

http://www.jazzweekly.com/interviews/abraxton.htm

- The monumental "Third Milleniall Interview"

(60 000 words!) with Mike Heffley

http://mheffley.web.wesleyan.edu/ab3m/ab3m1.htm

[GregK]

why are these out of print anyway? that just ain't right

[Gary]

How much would be considered a fair donation per disc?

[blake]

"How much would be considered a fair donation per disc?"

Donation size is entirely up to you and completely independent of how many, if any, of the OOP albums listed above you might like to trade for.

edited for grammar

Edited May 6, 2005 by blake

[AmirBagachelles]

This Irish boy is practically bawling, all choked up reading this. I would love to make a direct contribution to many great jazz musicians. How could you not? Thanks for the heads up. And how come Mr. Braxton doesn't own the material by now? We need new laws on this!

[blake]

"Up" for renewed attention and to thank those who have generously contributed. The drive wraps up in just 2 weeks.

[blake]

"Up" one last time...

Only 3 days left, the drive ends June 30th.

If you've traded/downloaded any of Mr. Braxton's OOP albums/CDs or live bootlegs this is your opportunity to give something back to him. It's also a chance to give a birthday present.

Thanks again to those of you who have already made a donation.

Anthony Braxton 60th Birthday Collection