| Update 8/2/2005: Anthony Braxton writes a very nice mail to the Braxton Yahoo mailing list! |
| Important news: From September to Cecember 2005 Wesleyan University is holding the Braxton At 60 Festival. |
| Update 7/19/2005: |
| -----Original Message----- From: andrew raffo dewar [mailto:......@wesleyan.edu][Andrew's homepage] Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 5:29 PM To: Franz Fuchs Subject: AB collection received (...) Just wanted to let you know that Prof. Braxton received the check from the birthday collection you started, and is *very* thankful about it -- he will be putting the funds towards the 3 month long 60th b-day festival we are doing here at Wesleyan from Sept. -- Dec. 2005. (...) ------------------------- |
| Update 7/14/2005: Via DHL a cashier's check has been delivered to Mr. Braxton's office at Wesleyan. |
| Update 7/5/2005: Thanks to those who donated! The result of the BBC (as of 30.6.2005) is $1501.19 The money will be sent to Mr. Braxton within the next days. |
| Most important information: PayPal address to donate End of campaign: June 30th, 2005 Proof that Mr. Braxton will have got the money will be provided on this page. Initiators: Greg Blake & Franz Fuchs, both members of the Anthony Braxton mailing list |
| -----Original Message----- From: Franz Fuchs Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 9:46 PM To: List of forums Subject: Anthony Braxton 60th Birthday Campaign 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%2es%2eblake%40fri tolay%2ecom&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0¤cy_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 Birthday PP account Franz Fuchs - moderator of the Braxton mailing list Some links: Anthony Braxton and the Tri-Centric Foundation (+ Braxton House label) Jason Guthartz's Braxton discography The Restructures link library with articles on & interviews with Braxton Yahoo mailing list (founded in 1999) Braxton audio lecture 1985 (nearly two hours!) at Other Minds/Internet Archive Interview with Downbeat's John Corbett (1994) Interview with Fred Jung (2001) The monumental "Third Milleniall Interview" (60 000 words!) with Mike Heffley ----- [*] Mailing lists: Braxton, Zorn, Saturn (Sun Ra), Avant-Garde, The Wire, Jazz-Vines, all_jazz2 Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote, de.alt.music.jazz, rec.music.makers.jazz, rec.music.progressive Messageboards: Jazzcorner's Speakeasy, Organissimo, All About Jazz |