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Jazz Elder Statesman Anthony Braxton Continues To Defy Expectations

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Pedal steel player Susan Alcorn, whose album with her quintet, Pedernal, was the pick for the best album of the year by Francis Davis, who runs the annual NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. David Lobato/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Anthony Braxton has just released the recording of his fifth opera, Trillium E.

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Anthony Braxton: A Grand Thinker Of American Music

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Anthony Braxton performs at Le Poisson Rouge. Peter Gannushkin/downtownmusic.net hide caption

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Listen Now: Anthony Braxton's 12+2tet In Concert

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Vintage Recordings From Anthony Braxton

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