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
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q123432FA
or
http://tinyurl.com/baffd
Both links lead 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¤cy_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
Some links:
- Anthony Braxton And The Tri-Centric Foundation
(+ Braxton House label)
http://www.wesleyan.edu/music/braxton/
- 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
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