- Born
- 4 June 1945
Chicago - Country
- United States
- Active
- 1968–
- Record labels
- ECM Records, Arista Records, Antilles, Delmark Records, BYG Records
- Discography
- 211 albums
Biography
Anthony Braxton is a jazz musician who plays piano, saxophone, clarinet and flute. Anthony Braxton was born on 4 June 1945 in Chicago. The music is usually filed under jazz, opera and modern creative. Record labels: ECM Records, Arista Records, Antilles and Delmark Records. The discography here lists 211 albums, from “3 Compositions of New Jazz” (1968) to “Articulations” (2026). Honours include MacArthur Fellows Program (1994), Honorary doctor of the University of Liège (2009) and NEA Jazz Masters.
Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto sax. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago and was a key early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. He received great acclaim for his 1969 double-LP record For Alto, the first full-length album of solo saxophone music. Braxton is a prolific composer with a vast body of cross-genre work, a MacArthur Fellow, and a NEA Jazz Master. He has released hundreds of recordings and compositions.
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Discography
Studio and live albums
3 Compositions of New Jazz
1968 · Delmark Records
B-X° / NO-I-47ᴬ
1969 · BYG Records
This Time...
1970 · BYG Records
For Alto
1971 · Delmark Records
Recital Paris 71
1971 · Live · Futura Records
Dona Lee
1972 · America Records
RBN----3° K12
1972 · Live · Ring Records
Saxophone Improvisations, Series F.
1972 · America Records
Town Hall 1972
1972 · Trio
Four Compositions (1973)
1973 · Columbia
The Complete Braxton
1973 · Freedom
First Duo Concert
1974 · Live · Emanem
In the Tradition
1974 · SteepleChase
Silence
1974 · Freedom
Solo: Live at Moers Festival
1974 · Live · Ring Records
Together Alone
1974 · Delmark Records
Trio and Duet
1974 · Sackville
Duo 2
1975
Five Pieces (1975)
1975 · Arista
New York, Fall 1974
1975 · Arista
Creative Orchestra Music 1976
1976 · Bluebird
Duets 1976
1976 · Arista
Quartet: At Moers Festival
1976 · Live · Ring Records
In the Tradition, Volume 2
1977 · SteepleChase
The Montreux/Berlin Concerts
1977 · Live · Arista
For Four Orchestras
1978 · Arista
For Trio
1978 · Arista
Alto Saxophone Improvisations 1979
1979 · Arista
Seven Compositions 1978
1980 · Moers Music
Composition 98
1981 · hat ART
Composition No. 95, For Two Pianos
1982 · Arista
Open Aspects '82
1982 · hat ART
Six Compositions: Quartet
1982 · Antilles
Six Duets (1982)
1982 · CECMA Records
Four Compositions (Quartet) 1983
1983 · Black Saint
Braxton & Stockhausen
1984 · hat ART
Royal Volume 1
1984 · Live · Incus Records
Composition 113
1985 · Sound Aspects
Seven Standards 1985, Volume 1
1985 · Magenta Records
Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984
1985 · Black Saint
Anthony Braxton · Robert Schumann String Quartet
1986 · Sound Aspects
Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986
1986 · Black Saint
Seven Standards 1985, Volume II
1986 · Magenta Records
Duets 1987
1987
Live
1987 · Live · Bluebird
Compositions 99, 101, 107 & 139
1988 · hat ART
Six Monk's Compositions
1988 · Black Saint
The Aggregate
1988 · Live · Sound Aspects
19 [Solo] Compositions, 1988
1989 · Live · New Albion Records
Composition N.96
1989 · Leo Records
Ensemble (Victoriaville) 1988
1989 · Live · Les Disques Victo
Seven Compositions (Trio)
1989 · Live · hat ART
Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions 1989
1990 · HatHut Records
Kol Nidre
1990
Performance (Quartet) 1979
1990 · Live · HatHut Records
Prag 1984 (Quartet Performance)
1990 · Live · Sound Aspects
Quartet (Birmingham) 1985
1990 · Live · Leo Records
Quartet (London) 1985
1990 · Live · Leo Records
Dortmund (Quartet) 1976
1991 · Live · HatHut Records
Eugene (1989)
1991 · Black Saint
Solo (London) 1988
1991 · Impetus Records
2 Compositions (Ensemble) 1989/1991
1992 · hat ART
8 Duets (Hamburg 1991)
1992 · Music & Arts
Composition No. 165 (For 18 Instruments)
1992 · New Albion Records
Willisau (Quartet) 1991 - Studio/Live
1992 · Live · HatHut Records
4 (Ensemble) Compositions
1993 · Black Saint
Duo (London) 1993
1993 · Live · Leo Records
Quartet (Coventry) 1985
1993 · Live · Leo Records
Composition No 174 (For Ten Percussionists, Slide Projections, Constructed Environment And Tape)
1994 · Leo Records
Duet: Live at Merkin Hall, NYC
1994 · Live · Music & Arts
Trio (London) 1993
1994 · Live · Leo Records
Charlie Parker Project 1993
1995 · hat ART
Creative Orchestra (Köln) 1978
1995 · Live · hat ART
Donaueschingen (Duo) 1976
1995 · Live · hat ART
Duo (Wesleyan) 1994
1995 · Live
Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994, Vol. 1
1995 · Live
Solo Piano (Standards) 1995
1995 · No More Records
2 Compositions (Järvenpää) 1988
1996 · Live · Leo Records
9 Standards (Quartet) 1993
1996 · Live · Leo Records
Composition No. 102 (For Orchestra & Puppet Theatre)
1996 · Braxton House
Composition No. 173
1996 · Black Saint
Duets 1995
1996 · KONNEX Records
Istanbul
1996 · Live · Braxton House
Piano Music (Notated) 1968-1988
1996 · hat ART
Piano Quartet, Yoshi’s 1994
1996 · Live · Music & Arts
Sextet (Istanbul) 1996
1996
Tentet (New York) 1996
1996 · Live · Braxton House
11 Compositions (Duo) 1995
1997 · Leo Records
Duo (Amsterdam) 1991
1997 · Live · Okka Disk
Ensemble (New York) 1995
1997 · Live
Four Compositions (Quartet) 1995
1997 · Live · Braxton House
Octet (New York) 1995
1997
Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993
1997 · Live · hat ART
14 Compositions (Traditional) 1996
1998 · Leo Records
Composition 192 (For Two Musicians & Constructed Environment)
1998 · Leo Records
Compositions No. 10 & No. 16 (+101)
1998 · hat[now]ART
Composition No. 94 for Three Instrumentalists (1980)
1999 · Live · Golden Years of New Jazz
Four Compositions (Washington, D.C.) 1998
1999 · Live · Braxton House
Small Ensemble Music (Wesleyan) 1994
1999 · Splasc(H) Records
Trillium R
1999 · New Braxton House
Two Lines
1999
Compositions/Improvisations 2000
2000 · Barely Auditable Records
Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994, Vol. 2
2000 · Live · Leo Records
Nine Compositions (Hill) 2000
2000
Quintet (Basel) 1977
2000 · hatOLOGY
Ten Compositions (Quartet) 2000
2000 · CIMP
Composition N. 169 + (186 + 206 + 214)
2001 · Live · Leo Records
Composition N. 247
2001 · Leo Records
Duets (Wesleyan) 2002
2002 · Innova Recordings
Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 1
2002 · Live · Leo Records
Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997, Volume 2
2002 · Live · Leo Records
Solo (Koln) 1978
2002 · Live · Golden Years of New Jazz
Anthony Braxton Sonny Simmons Brandon Evans Andre Vida Mike Pride Shanir Blumenkranz
2003
Four Compositions (GTM) 2000
2003 · Delmark Records
Organic Resonance
2003 · Pi Recordings
Six Compositions (GTM) 2001
2003 · Rastascan Records
Solo (Milano) 1979 Vol. 1
2003 · Live · Golden Years of New Jazz
Solo (Skopje) 1995
2003 · Live · Braxton House
Two Compositions (Trio) 1998
2003 · Leo Records
23 Standards Quartet
2004 · Leo Records
Duo Palindrome 2002. Vol. 2
2004 · Live · Intakt Records
Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace
2004 · Pi Recordings
Six Standards (Quintet) 1996
2004 · Splasc(H) Records
Solo (Milano) 1979 Vol. 2
2004 · Live · Golden Years of New Jazz
The Song Is You
2004 · Douglas:
2 + 2 Compositions
2005
20 Standards (Quartet) 2003
2005 · Live
Concept of Freedom
2005 · hatOLOGY
Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997, Vol. 3
2005 · Live · Leo Records
Quintet (London) 2004: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
2005 · Live · Leo Records
Sextet (Victoriaville) 2005
2005 · Live · Les Disques Victo
Shadow Company
2005 · Emanem
Triotone
2005 · Leo Records
4 Compositions (Ulrichsberg) 2005 Phonomanie VIII
2006 · Live · Leo Records
ABCD
2006 · Not Two Records
Black Vomit
2006 · Live
Composition No. 175 / Composition No. 126 Trillium-Dialogues M
2006 · Live · Leo Records
Duo (Victoriaville) 2005
2006 · Live · Les Disques Victo
12+1tet (Victoriaville) 2007
2007 · Live · Les Disques Victo
9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006
2007 · Live · Firehouse 12 Records
Nine Compositions (DVD) 2003
2007 · Rastascan Records
Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997, Vol. 4
2007 · Live · Leo Records
Solo (Pisa) 1982
2007 · Live · Golden Years of New Jazz
Solo Live at Gasthof Heidelberg Loppem 2005
2007 · Live · LocusLoppem
Trio (Glasgow) 2005
2007 · Live · Leo Records
Trio (Victoriaville) 2007
2007 · Live · Les Disques Victo
Beyond Quantum
2008 · Tzadik
Creative Orchestra (Bolzano) 2007
2008 · Live · RAI Trade
Creative Orchestra (Guelph) 2007
2008 · Live · Spool
Four Improvisations (Duo) 2007
2008 · Clean Feed
Piano Music (1968-2000)
2008 · Leo Records
Quartet (GTM) 2006
2008 · Important Records
Quartet (Moscow) 2008
2008 · Live · Leo Records
Duo (Heidelberg Loppem) 2007
2009 · Live · Leo Records
Improvisations (Duo) 2008
2009 · SoLyd Records
19 Standards (Quartet) 2003
2010 · Live · Leo Records
6 Duos (Wesleyan) 2006
2010 · Nessa Records
Duets (Pittsburgh) 2008
2010 · OMP Recordings
GTM (Syntax) 2003 Composition 339 & 340
2010 · Leo Records
Gtm (Outpost) 2003 Composition 255 & 265
2010 · Live · Leo Records
Composition No. 19 (For 100 Tubas)
2011 · Live
Duo (Verona) 1989
2011
Ensemble (Pittsburgh) 2008
2011 · Live · SSS Productions
Orchestra (Los Angeles) 1992
2011 · Live · Braxton Bootleg
Quartet (Mannheim) 2010
2011 · Live
Quartet (Mestre) 2008
2011 · Live · Caligola Records
Septet (Pittsburgh) 2008
2011 · Live · New Braxton House
Solo (Brussels) 1985
2011 · Live · Braxton Bootleg
Two Compositions (FONT) 2007
2011 · Live · New Braxton House
Syntactical GTM Choir (NYC) 2011
2012 · New Braxton House
Creative Music Orchestra (NYC) 2011
2013 · Live · New Braxton House
Echo Echo Mirror House
2013 · Les Disques Victo
Ensemble Montaigne (Bau 4) 2013
2013 · Leo Records
Quartet (FRM) 2007 Vol. 1
2013 · New Braxton House
Quartet (FRM) 2007 Vol. 2
2013
Quartet (FRM) 2007 Vol. 3
2013 · New Braxton House
Quartet (FRM) 2007 Vol. 4
2013 · New Braxton House
Quartet (Warsaw) 2012
2013 · Live · For Tune
Quartet/Quintet (NYC) 2011
2013 · Live
Solo Willisau
2013 · Intakt Records
12 Duets (DCWM) 2012
2014 · New Braxton House
Trio (New Haven) 2013
2014 · New Braxton House
Ao Vivo Jazz na Fábrica: Anthony Braxton Quartet
2015 · Live · Selo SESC SP
Trio (Florence) 1979 - 11.19 - 1
2015 · Braxton Bootleg
Wesleyan (12 Altosolos) 1992
2015
3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011
2016 · Firehouse 12 Records
Composition 323 A; Composition 323 B
2016 · Leo Records
Duo (DCWM) 2013
2016 · RogueArt
Quintet [Tristano] 2014
2016 · New Braxton House
Trillium J
2016 · New Braxton House
4 Improvisations (Duets) 2004
2017 · Leo Records
Solo (Victoriaville) 2017
2017 · Live · Les Disques Victo
Eight Improvisations (Trio) 2014
2018 · Tubapede Records
Sextet (Parker) 1993
2018 · New Braxton House
GTM (Syntax) 2017
2019 · New Braxton House
Quartet (New Haven) 2014
2019 · Firehouse 12 Records
Skeppsholmen Stockholm 08.02.2019
2019 · Live
Duo (Bologna) 2018
2020 · Live · I dischi di angelica
Duo (Improv) 2017
2020 · New Braxton House
Solo in Peitz
2020 · Live · jazzwerkstatt
12 Comp (ZIM) 2017
2021 · Firehouse 12 Records
Quartet (Standards) 2020
2021 · Live · New Braxton House
Duet (Other Minds) 2021
2022 · Live · Other Minds Records
10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022
2024 · Live · New Braxton House
Neighbours with Anthony Braxton
2024
Solo Bern 1984, First Visit
2024 · Live · ezz-thetics
2 Comp (2023)
2025 · Schott
Live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023
2025 · Live
Quartet (England) 1985
2025 · Live
Trillium X
2025 · PMP
Articulations
2026
Also plays on
Albums where Anthony Braxton is credited as a sideman
| 1968 | Levels and Degrees of Light — Muhal Richard Abrams |
| 1969 | The 8th of July 1969 — Gunter Hampel |
| 1970 | Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones — Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones |
| 1970 | Afternoon of a Georgia Faun — Marion Brown |
| 1976 | All the Things We Are — Dave Brubeck |
| 1978 | Birth and Rebirth — Max Roach featuring Anthony Braxton |
| 1978 | Roscoe Mitchell Duets with Anthony Braxton — Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton |
| 1981 | The Iron Men — Woody Shaw |
| 2007 | Afijn — Misha Mengelberg |
Awards
- 1994 MacArthur Fellows Program
- 2009 Honorary doctor of the University of Liège
- NEA Jazz Masters
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Doris Duke Performing Artist Award
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Frequently asked questions
What instrument does Anthony Braxton play?
Anthony Braxton is known for playing piano, saxophone, clarinet and flute.
When and where was Anthony Braxton born?
Anthony Braxton was born 4 June 1945 in Chicago.
What are Anthony Braxton's best-known albums?
Albums in our database include 3 Compositions of New Jazz (1968), B-X° / NO-I-47ᴬ (1969), This Time... (1970), For Alto (1971) and Dona Lee (1972).
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