From Quartet (New Haven) 2014 released in June from a Firehouse 12 Records 4-CD box set. I am not recommending it all choosing to focus in here on this track the puckishly titled 'Improvisation Four (For guitarist/composer Merle Haggard)' and itself nearly an hour long. Braxton is with Nels Cline (guitar), Greg Saunier (drums), and Taylor Ho Bynum (brass). All quite serene in a way, surreal too and open, Braxton when he gets up high just swaying around with everything insanely fracturing beneath as if the other improvisers are his own chorus taking turns to swap masks. As much a painting as a piece of music that you'd hang on a favourite wall that everyone can view and experience. SG
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