Duets (Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton album) explained

Duets
Type:	studio
Artist:	Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton
Cover:	Duets (Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton album).jpg
Released:	1978
Recorded:	December 13, 1976
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	40:53
Label:	Sackville
Producer:	John Norris
Chronology:	Anthony Braxton
Prev Title:	The Montreux/Berlin Concerts
Prev Year:	1975-76
Next Title:	Quintet (Basel) 1977
Next Year:	1977

Duets is an album by American jazz saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton recorded in 1976 and released on the Sackville label.^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album 4 stars stating "this is a fine meeting between two of the most forward-looking thinkers and players in the music".^[2]

Track listing

1. "Five Twenty One Equals Eight" (Roscoe Mitchell) - 4:52
2. "Line Fine Lyon Seven" (Mitchell) - 1:15
3. "Seven Behind Nine Ninety-Seven Sixteen or Seven" (Mitchell) - 2:37
4. "Cards-Three and Open" (Mitchell) - 10:52
5. "Composition 40Q" (Anthony Braxton) - 6:46
6. "Composition 74B" (Braxton) - 6:35
7. "Composition 74A" (Braxton) - 7:56

• Recorded at Thunder Sound in Toronto, Canada on December 13, 1977

Personnel

• Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton - reeds

Notes and References

1. http://www.restructures.net/BraxDisco/BraxDisco.htm Anthony Braxton discography
2. Olewnick, B. Allmusic Review accessed December 15, 2011