Mosaic Records has reissued the recordings Anthony Braxton did for Arista Records circa 1975-82:
I wrote the liner notes for the 8-CD set. I wrote about twice as many words as producer Michael Cuscuna could use, and didn’t want those left behind to go to waste.
Click here to read the full original draft, now posted on John Szwed’s/Columbia University’s Jazz Studies Online
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Click here to read “O, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing”: Anthony Braxton’s Speculative Musics (Journal of the Society for American Music [2008], George Lewis ed., Volume 2, Number 2, pp. 203–233). A slightly longer version was reprinted in January ‘09 in John Szwed’s/Columbia University’s Jazz Studies Online.
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Book Reviews:
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press, 2008), for Journal of American Music (this version is longer than the one they ran.
Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World (John Szwed, Viking, 2010), for Journal of Folklore Research and Reviews.
Sounding the Depths: Tradition and the Voices of History (Victor Grauer, CreateSpace, 2011), for Journal of Folklore Research and Reviews.
Sounding the Depths: Tradition and the Voices of History (Victor Grauer, CreateSpace, 2011), different version, mentions Roswell Rudd.
Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, and Copyright Law (Kembrew McLeod and Rudolf Kuenzli, eds., Duke University Press, 2011) for Signal to Noise, Spring 2012.
Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling (Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola, Duke University Press, 2011), for Signal to Noise, Spring 2012.
