http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/arts/music/28roht.html

> But the most influential of Delmark’s association recordings may also have
> been its most implausible. Released in 1968 as a double album, Anthony
> Braxton’s “For Alto” is a collection of thorny solo saxophone compositions,
> initially slammed as an affront to the jazz tradition but which has gone on
> to influence a generation of horn players and inspire scores of similar solo
> outings. The recent Penguin Guide to Jazz calls it “one of the genuinely
> important American recordings” that “challenged every parameter of the
> music, tonal, textural, rhythmic and structural.”
> Mr. Koester said: “Braxton’s prior record, his first, had moved only 200
> copies the first year, so I knew I was going to have trouble selling a
> double record set of totally unaccompanied saxophone. But I don’t pay that
> much attention to sales figures. You put them out and hope for the best.”
>

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Jason Guthartz
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