¹ The name Important Records also appears to reference the social process of listeners recommending albums to one another and not simply the sounds of the recordings themselves, because, according to Wikipedia, the record label “was created in 2001 after the management collapse of a popular North East record shop” (www.wikipedia.org, accessed 8 July 2008). The label's releases feature a wide range of contemporary artists, from Pauline Oliveros and Noam Chomsky to Merzbow and DJ Spooky (Paul Miller).

² Anthony Braxton 12+1 tet, 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006, Firehouse 12 CDx9 + DVD, reviewed by Michael Rosenstein in Signal to Noise 46 (Summer 2007): 50. At the end of his review Rosenstein answers his own provocative question in the affirmative.

³ Phil Freeman, “The Great Learning,” The Wire (July 2008): 34–40.

⁴ Anthony Braxton Quartet Standards (Brussels) 2008, Amirani 14 (6 CD, 2008); Anthony Braxton Piano Music (1968–2000), Leo Records LR 901/909 (9 CD, 2008); Anthony Braxton/Joe Morris, Four Improvisations (Duo) 2007, Clean Feed CF100 (4 CD, 2008); Anthony Braxton, Trio (Glasgow) 2005, Leo Records CD LR 487/488 (2 CD, 2007); Anthony Braxton, 4 Compositions (Ulrichsberg) 2005—Phonomanie VIII, Leo Records CD LR 468/471 (4 CD, 2006); Anthony Braxton and Walter Frank, 4 Improvisations (Duets) 2004, Leo LR 429/430 (2 CD, 2005); Anthony Braxton Nine Compositions (DVD) 2003, Rastascan 60 (1 DVD-Audio, 2003).

⁵ See Braxton, Anthony, Triaxium Writings, 3 vols. (Lebanon, N.H.: Frog Peak Press, 1985)Google Scholar and Composition Notes A-E (Lebanon, N.H.: Frog Peak Press, 1988); Lock, Graham, Forces in Motion: The Music and Thoughts of Anthony Braxton (New York: Da Capo Press, 1989)Google Scholar, Mixtery: A Festschrift for Anthony Braxton (Exeter, Devon: Stride Press, 1995), and Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999); Radano, Ronald, New Musical Figurations: Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critique (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994)Google Scholar; and Heffley, Mike, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996)Google Scholar.

⁶ Bill Shoemaker, “The Music of Anthony Braxton: A Living System,” liner notes to Four Compositions (Washington, D.C.) 1988 (Braxton House BH-009, 1998), available at http://www.wesleyan.edu/music/braxton/braxtonhouse/bh009.html (accessed 8 July 2008).

⁷ Francis Davis, liner notes to Octet (New York) 1995 (Braxton House BH-006, 1995), available at http://www.wesleyan.edu/music/braxton/braxtonhouse/bh006.html (accessed 8 July 2008). See also the description of “Accelerated Ghost Trance Music” posted by maparker at http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/frontpage/001062.html (posted 19 November 2005, accessed 8 July 2008).

⁸ Davis, liner notes to Octet (New York) 1995.

⁹ Francesco Martinelli, “A New Set of Toys in the Triangle House: The Ghost Trance Music's [sic] of Anthony Braxton,” liner notes to Sextet (Istanbul) 1996 (Braxton House BH-001 [2 CD, 1996]), available at http://www.wesleyan.edu/music/braxton/braxtonhouse (accessed 8 July 2008).

¹⁰ One Internet commentator described the booklet as offering insight into “the whys whats and whatevers of Ghost Trance Music”; see http://www.tokafi.com/news/anthony-braxton-ghost-trance-music-explained (accessed 8 July 2008).

¹¹ Davis, Francis, Bebop and Nothingness: Jazz and Pop at the End of the Century (New York: Schirmer Books, 1996), 99Google Scholar.

¹² Wynton Marsalis, Blues and Swing (Sony VHS 6301122666, 1991).

¹³ Davis, liner notes to Octet (New York) 1995.