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Braxton, Anthony

LC control no.n 85235105
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LC classificationML419.B735 Biography
Personal name headingBraxton, Anthony
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1945-06-04
Place of birthChicago (Ill.)
Field of activityJazz
AffiliationRoosevelt University
Chicago School of Music
Profession or occupationSaxophonists Flute players Clarinetists Composers
Special noteTreat the numbers associated with works titled Composition as opus numbers (RDA 6.16.1.3.2), per email from Kyoko Kitamura, Tri-Centric Foundation, July 27, 2013.
Found inHis Five pieces, 1975 [SR] p1975: label (Anthony Braxton) container (plays alto sax, cl, sopranino sax, fl, alto fl, contrabass cl)
His In the tradition [SR] p1987- : label (Anthony Braxton) booklet (b. 1945 in Chicago)
Wilson, P.N. Anthony Braxton, c1993: p. 18 (b. June 4, 1945, in Chicago)
New Grove dict. of mus. WWW site, Dec. 21, 2005 (Braxton, Anthony (Delano); b. Chicago, 4 June 1945; American alto saxophonist, contrabass clarinettist and composer)
AKAMU.net, April 10, 2020: Creative music & great Black music > Anthony Braxton (Anthony Braxton; born in Chicago (Illinois) on 4 June 1945; American composer as well as sax, clarinet, flute and piano player; Braxton studied at the Chicago School of Music and at Roosevelt University; one of the first black abstract musicians to acknowledge a debt to contemporary European art music)
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