| Ensemble (New York) 1995 | |
| Type: | Live album |
| Artist: | Anthony Braxton |
| Cover: | Octet (New York) 1995.jpg |
| Released: | 1997 |
| Recorded: | November 24, 1995 |
| Venue: | Tri-Centric (Thanksgiving) Festival, Knitting Factory, NYC |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 49:36 |
| Label: | Braxton House BH 006 |
| Producer: | Anthony Braxton, Velibor Pedevski |
| Chronology: | Anthony Braxton |
| Prev Title: | Six Standards (Quintet) 1996 |
| Prev Year: | 1995 |
| Next Title: | Ensemble (New York) 1995 |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
Octet (New York) 1995 is a live album by composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton with an octet, recorded at the Knitting Factory in 1995 and released on his own Braxton House label.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek stated "This octet documentation of Anthony Braxton's "Composition 188" is solid evidence of the state of the decline of the recording industry's ability to nurture an artist -- even one of Braxton's stature -- and see to much less beyond the bottom line in order to fulfill their function as documenters of cultural history. ... A label would have allowed Braxton to hire -- rather than ask their favor -- a group of handpicked musicians for this particular work and have given them the money and the time to rehearse it adequately before recording it. That used to happen".