George Braith
{{Short description|American jazz musician}}
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George Braith (born George Braithwaite on June 26, 1939) is a soul-jazz saxophonist from New York.{{cite web |last1=Huey |first1=Steve |title=George Braith |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/george-braith-mn0000532280/biography |website=AllMusic |accessdate=24 January 2019 }}
Career
Braith is known for playing multiple horns at once, a technique pioneered by Roland Kirk. He is credited with the invention of the Braithophone, a welded-together alto and soprano saxophone.{{Cite news |last=Stewart |first=Emily |date=August 10, 2007 |title=Jazz pioneer to play Kingston |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/436752508 |access-date=2024-01-27 |work=The Poughkeepsie Journal |page=F.1|id={{ProQuest|436752508}} }}
Braith is featured in a mosaic in the 72nd street station of the Second Avenue Subway in the New York City Subway system.{{cite news |last=Fitzsimmons |first=Emma G. |date=January 1, 2017 |title=As Second Avenue Subway Opens, a Train Delay Ends in (Happy) Tears |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/01/nyregion/second-avenue-subway-opening-upper-east-side-manhattan.html |work=The New York Times |accessdate=January 1, 2017}}
Discography
=As leader=
- Two Souls in One (Blue Note, 1963)
- Soul Stream (Blue Note, 1963 [1964])
- Extension (Blue Note, 1964 [1967])
- Laughing Soul (Prestige, 1966)
- Musart (Prestige, 1967)
- Double Your Pleasure (Bellaphon, 1992)
- Rafting Brace (Victor [jp], 1998) reissue of Laughing Soul
- The Complete Blue Note Sessions (Blue Note/EMI, 2001) 2-CD
- George Braith & Friends, Volume 1 (Excellence, 2002)
- Turn of the Century (Excellence, 2003)
- Barcelona Blues (Excellence, 2006)
- Boptronics (Excellence, 2006)
- Bip Bop Bam (Excellence, 2006)
- Bop Rock Blues (Excellence, 2007)
- New York Soul (Excellence, 2021)
=As sideman=
With John Patton
- Blue John (Blue Note, 1963)
- Eagle Eye Blues (Excellence, 2001 [2006])
References
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External links
- [http://www.georgebraith.com Official site]
- [http://jazztimes.com/articles/14474-george-braith-the-man-who-also-cried-fire "George Braith: The Man Who Also Cried Fire"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503050603/http://jazztimes.com/articles/14474-george-braith-the-man-who-also-cried-fire |date=2009-05-03 }} Kelsey, C. JazzTimes, March 2004.
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Category:Jazz musicians from New York (state)
Category:Musicians from the Bronx
Category:21st-century American saxophonists
Category:American jazz saxophonists
Category:American male saxophonists
Category:Blue Note Records artists
Category:Prestige Records artists
Category:Post-bop saxophonists
Category:Soul-jazz saxophonists
Category:21st-century American male musicians
Category:American male jazz musicians
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