Composition 23J from Rising Colossus by Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble

Composed by Anthony Braxton
"The specific nature or order of a given version of Composition No. 23J is open to the moment and/or needs of its interpreters—which is to say, the tradition of Trans African functionalism has always been open to the moment (and as such, functioning a a living and breathing music that is relevant to the challenges of the moments). Composition No. 23J was composed with respect to this tradition and can be viewed both in those terms and in its composite relationship to by multi-series of extended 'line' structure for the creative quartet context. The solidification of this work continues to further my interest in the use of 'line structures' as a dynamic platform—and spring board for extended improvisation. Composition No. 23J is dedicated to the writer/poet T.S. Eliot." - an excerpt from Anthony Braxton
http://www.restructures.net/CompNotes/023J.htm

Rent Romus hailed by Downbeat as having "a bold sound, unmistakable sincerity and conviction". A third generation Finnish American born in the great north of upper Michigan and growing up in the San Francisco Bay ,Romus' work on the saxophone has been dubbed “ferocious” by the San Francisco Weekly and “central to the creative music world of the West Coast” by writer jazz critic Frank Rubolino.

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