| Anthony Braxton 60th Birthday Collection [message #230669] |
Wed, 11 May 2005 22:25 |
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Am 4. Juni wird der Saxophonist und Komponist Anthony Braxton 60 Jahre
alt. Einige seiner Fans haben sich nun (ohne Braxtons Wissen) gedacht,
daß man diese Gelegenheit benutzen könnte, um eine
"Geburtstagssammlung" zu veranstalten. Wäre es nicht nett, wenn
Braxton auf diese Weise ein Zeichen der Wertschätzung bekommen würde?
Fans, die seine Laufbahn näher verfolgen, werden wissen, daß es ihm
nach dem selbstfinanzierten Opern-Projekt "Trillium R" nicht
gutgegangen ist. (Was sogar noch untertrieben ist - ohne die
großzügige Hilfe von Freunden wäre er in ernstere Schwierigkeiten
geraten. Aber auch so mußte er sich langfristig verschulden.)
Wenn also die Braxton-Liebhaber unter den Mitlesenden etwas zu dieser
"Birthday Collection" beitragen wollen, bitte ich, einen der beiden
folgenden Links zu benutzen, die zu einer eigens eingerichteten
PayPal-Seite führen:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q123432FA
oder
http://tinyurl.com/baffd
Für "Spenden" (seien sie gedacht als Geburtstagsgeschenk oder als
Vergütung für das Tauschen/Laden von Live-Bootlegs oder von
vergriffenen Platten) können auch Kreditkarten benutzt werden, da es
sich um ein PayPal Business-Konto handelt.
Vielen Dank für jeden Beitrag!
Außerdem füge ich noch das offizielle englischsprachige Rundschreiben
an.
Mit freudlichen Grüßen
Franz Fuchs
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On June 4th multi-instrumentalist/composer/writer/teacher Anthony
Braxton will be turning 60. 2005 is his 39th year in Creative Musics
and
38 years have passed since his recording debut on (Muhal) Richard
Abrams' "Levels And Degrees of Light". One outcome of Braxton's
never-wavering dedication over these four decades is a qualitively
astounding discography of nearly 250 albums.
Braxton's birthday provides a great opportunity for us to show our
appreciation - not only of his music but for him as an artist who held
out through rough times (like the first half of the 80s or the period
after his expensive opera project "Trillium R", 1996).
Mr. Braxton has been quite generous about his fans' sharing of OOP
records (for example the scandalously unavailable Arista albums!) and
even encourages it. So if you partook in trading/downloading this
material or live bootlegs or if you simply want to make a birthday
present you can do this now through the "Anthony Braxton 60th Birthday
Collection".
The procedure: Click
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q123432FA
or
http://tinyurl.com/baffd
Both links lead to the following PayPal page
paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=gregory%2 es%2eblake%40fri
tolay%2ecom&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0&cu rrency_code=USD&lc=US
and are provided for better usability.
The "AB60thBC" utilizes a PayPal business account. Therefore donors
don't need to be PayPal members and can send their contributions also
with their credit cards. Only 1.5% PP transaction fees will be
deducted
from each donation - the rest will be taken over by us.
*Mr. Braxton will get 98.5% of the total sum of the
contributions.*
Once the campaign has ended (June 30th), the money will be sent to
Braxton via check. Proof that he got it will be provided with scans of
the transaction stub and/or a message from Mr. Braxton.
Braxton himself doesn't know about this initiative yet.
Please forward this mail (or only the link to the PP account page) to
any person that might be interested in contributing to the campaign.
Thanks in advance for any donation!
Regards
Greg Blake - manager of the "AB 60th birthday" PP account
Franz Fuchs - moderator of the Braxton mailing list
Some links:
- Anthony Braxton And The Tri-Centric Foundation
(+ Braxton House label)
http://www.wesleyan.edu/music/braxton/
- Jason Guthartz's Braxton discography
http://www.restructures.net/BraxDisco/BraxDisco.htm
- The Restructures link library with articles on & interviews
with Braxton
http://www.restructures.net/links/links.htm#B
- Yahoo mailing list (founded in 1999)
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anthony_BRAXTON/
- Braxton audio lecture 1985 (nearly two hours!) at
Other Minds/Internet Archive
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D5C21257A
- Interview with Downbeat's John Corbett (1994)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C11F429FA
- Interview with Fred Jung (2001)
http://www.jazzweekly.com/interviews/abraxton.htm
- The monumental "Third Milleniall Interview"
(60 000 words!) with Mike Heffley
http://mheffley.web.wesleyan.edu/ab3m/ab3m1.htm
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| Re: Anthony Braxton 60th Birthday Collection [message #242451 ] |
Sun, 26 June 2005 00:35 |
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Ich bin jetzt einfach etwas bequem und hänge nur die englischsprachige
Erinnerung an das baldige Ende der "Anthony Braxton 60th Birthday
Collection" an. Zu Beginn dieser Aktion habe ich einen kurzen
deutschsprachigen Text verfasst:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/de.alt.music.jazz/msg/30 6807791daae2dd
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Franz Fuchs
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The Anthony Braxton 60th Birthday Collection is going to end on June
30th.
Addresses for the campaign are http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q123432FA
and http://tinyurl.com/baffd. Both links lead to the same page. We use
a PayPal *business account* which means you only need access to a
credit card and don't have to be a PayPal member. For the Birthday
Collection's broadcast mail:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Anthony_BRAXTON/message/1219
This campaign is a rare opportunity for fans to collectively give Mr.
Braxton something. (It's likely that there won't be a collection for
another five years.)
The donation end result and further details will be available at:
http://members.a1.net/frafuchs/abraxtonbirthdaycollection.ht ml
Best regards
Greg Blake - manager of the AB birthday account
Franz Fuchs - moderator of the AB mailing list
PS: Thanks to the nice people from "The Wire" magazine who mentioned
the collection (+ the tinyurl link) in the current issue.
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