4 Improvisations (Duets) 2004

(2-CD set) a new side of Anthony Braxton performing a double CD of four improvised pieces with the piano player Walter Franks. As Stuart Broomer writes in his notes: "On first hearing, this is music that seems out of time: often it's rubato and it's harmonic materials - - frequently scalar - - sometimes seem tightly focused on the French impressionist school of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These free dialogues allow Braxton and Franks to create extraordinarily well-developed, rhapsodic compositions..."