50 great moments in jazz: Anthony Braxton swims against the tide

A Coltrane devotee who liked Brubeck's Take Five? Anthony Braxton has always been at odds with orthodox jazz thinkingIn the 1980s, after a period of eclipse by fusion, more traditional approaches to jazz were in resurgence – a subject I'll return to in the next blog in relation to the arrival of Wynton Marsalis. But if "classic jazz" (particularly in its bebop manifestations) gained a new respectability during the decade, some uncompromising jazz-inspired artists were determined to resist what...

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