First Stop: The Brooklyn Academy of Music 最初の公演地：ブルックリン音楽アカデミー The MEV tour was organized by Saul Gottlieb, director of the Radical Theatre Repertory. It was planned around four or five gigs, the fruit of letter writing…

Foreword by Geoff Dyer 前書き ジェフ・ダイアー Duke Ellington died on 24 May 1974. Within days Miles Davis had recorded a tribute, “He Loved Him Madly” (alluding, of course, to Ellington's “Love You Madly"). Across the Atlantic, the poet P…

Joining Musica Elettronica Viva ムジカ・エレットリカ・ヴィヴァへの参加 Situated in New York City, Anthony Braxton was adrift. Kunle Mwanga, the entrepreneur who had introduced Braxton and Leroy Jenkins to Ornette Coleman in Paris (but who …

Mozart If I'm working on Mozart and, over 20 years, Dennis Russell Davies and I learn more and more about each other and how we work together and that we have no work habits that conflict and that the way we relate to Mozart isn't wrong fo…

Bach Correct playing has nothing to do with disputes over style. The first thing to consider is if there's music being made. I can find my release in other fields - I can get music out in so many other ways, and I don't feel I have to make…

Braxton in New York ニューヨークでのブラクストン Although Paris afforded better performance opportunities than Chicago, Braxton decided to return to the United States in late 1969. While returning home might literally mean Chicago, New Yor…

Interdisciplinary Activities I started as a classical pianist, the way all so-called legitimate kids playing the piano start. I was a “crossover” artist when I made my first jazz album. Now I'm living in both worlds, but I keep them separa…