Born in Chicago in 1945, Braxton began playing music as a teenager, developing an early interest in both jazz and classical musics. He attended the Chicago School of Music from 1959-1963, then Roosevelt University, where he studied philosophy and composition. During this time, he became acquaint...
Radano's New Musical Figurations: Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critique takes as its subject, by contrast, an almost singularly esoteric artist, an avant-garde experimentalist dubbed by one critic as "the Buckminister Fuller of Jazz." Hasse, hewing to a vein of jazz commentary that reaches back ...
hypnotic, Native American–inspired Ghost Trance Music; Echo Echo Mirror House Music, in which the performers take the stage equipped with iPods stocked with recordings from Braxton’s discography, resulting in a dense time-traveling sound collage; and Zim Music, which combines graphic scores with ...
(Braxton, 2013). Bacon has become popular in every facade of the culinary world, and is able to fit anywhere from sweet to savory, even umami. Chef Fisher shared with Braxton, stating, “I’ve gone from being a true fan of bacon to being obsessive” (Braxton, 2013). This bacon craze...