For Trio is an album by American jazz saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton recorded in 1977 and released on the Arista label.[1][2][3] The album features two recordings of the same composition by Braxton in two separate trios and was subsequently included on The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton released by Mosaic Records in 2008.

For Trio
Studio album by
Released1978
RecordedSeptember 22, 1977
StudioStreeterville Sound in Chicago, IL
GenreJazz
Length41:18
LabelArista AB-4181
ProducerMichael Cuscuna
Anthony Braxton chronology
Quintet (Basel) 1977
(1977)
For Trio
(1978)
Creative Orchestra (Köln) 1978
(1978)

Reception

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The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album 2½ stars stating "The extremely high caliber of the musicians which Braxton chose for this project guarantee some inspired playing and great imagination in working their way through this often forbidding territory. While admirers of his more jazz oriented work might find the music here daunting indeed, it repays careful listening and also strikes one as a seminal work that prefigures many of the concerns he would deal with later on in his collage-form structures written for his classic quartet of the '80s and '90s".[4]

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Allmusic     [4]

Track listing

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All compositions by Anthony Braxton.

  1. "Composition 76: Version I" - 20:56
  2. "Composition 76: Version II" - 20:22

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Anthony Braxton discography Archived 2012-09-11 at the Wayback Machine accessed March 17, 2015
  2. ^ Filippo, R., Enciclopedia del Jazz: Anthony Braxton accessed November 3, 2016
  3. ^ Anthony Braxton Project: 1971-1979 Chronology accessed November 7, 2016
  4. ^ a b Olewnick, B., Allmusic Review accessed March 17, 2015