For Alto

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For Alto
Studio album by Anthony Braxton
Released	1969
Genre	Jazz
Length	72:58
Label	Delmark Records
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Penguin Guide to Jazz
Anthony Braxton chronology
Three Compositions of New Jazz (1968) For Alto (1969) Anthony Braxton (1969)

For Alto is a jazz double-LP by composer/multi-reedist Anthony Braxton. Delmark Records released the double-album in 1969. The tracks on this album are performed by Braxton on alto saxophone, with no additional instrumentation or musicians. The Penguin Guide to Jazz gives For Alto a four-star rating (of a possible four) along with its "crown" token of merit, and describes it as "one of the genuinely important American recordings. While some landmark performances retain only a mystical aura of their original significance, [For Alto] remains powerfully listenable and endlessly fascinating."^[1]

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1. "Dedicated to Multi-Instrumentalist Jack Gell" – 0:42
2. "To Composer John Cage" – 9:30
3. "To Artist Murray de Pillars" – 4:17
4. "To Pianist Cecil Taylor" – 5:18
5. "Dedicated to Ann and Peter Allen" – 12:54
6. "Dedicated to Susan Axelrod" – 10:24
7. "To My Friend Kenny McKenny" – 10:06
8. "Dedicated to Multi-Instrumentalist Leroy Jenkins" – 19:47

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