Um, anyway, I thought I’d just clarify what I was just thinking: the thing about chaos would be a reference to the idea, which would probably be familiar to any Chinese schoolboy or girl, that throughout its history, China has alternated between periods of stability and chaos…Actually I just googled the Chinese phrase, and apparently it’s from Mencius ?Mengzi): “A long time has elapsed since this world of men received its being, and there has been along its history now a period of good order, and now a period of confusion.” Well, live and learn.

Anyways, it occurred to me that some of the odd phrases, “free jazz factions,” “make use of modern music’s new free jazz” are deliberately, if vaguely political, and it seems that “free jazz” is standing in for freedom, or liberalism ?“freedom idea” in Chinese). Dunno if the cartoonist had anything more specific in mind than that, but I’m thinking probably not.

Also, if anyone’s working on it, I’d also like one with Roland Kirk playing at least 3 horns, captioned “Listen With All Your Might!”

Sorry, hard for me to let this kind of think go once it starts poking at me.

Chick Corea – “Circling In” (Blue Note, recorded ’68, ’70; released’75)(Braxton’s only on 1 LP of this 2-LP set)
Circle – “Live In German Concert” (CBS/Sony Japan, recorded ’70; released ’7?)
Anthony Braxton w/ Chick Corea – “Europa” (Piccadilly, recorded ’71; released ’80)

Other great/obscure Braxton records in my collection I’d love to see you discuss are:

Anthony Braxton – “Creative Music Orchestra” (Ring 3-LP box-set, recorded ’72, released ’7?)
Anthony Braxton/Szabados Gyorgy – “Szabraxtondos” (Artisjus, recorded ’84, released ’85)
the opera CD box-set released on Braxton House records.

Now I’m done.

Sorry that all came out all Chinglishy, btw, that’s just what happens if you translate accurately.

Caption on top says, “Chick Corea with Dave Holland and Anthony Braxton formed a band called Circle, spreading the free jazz faction’s performances,” something like that.

Dave says, “Make use of new music’s free jazz.”

Like I said, I can’t make all the words Chick says, something about the “flavor of free jazz.”

Long haired person in lower left hand corner says “Wah!”

The piano says “bi li li,” which is some sort of onomatopoetic music sound.

Two audience members on the bottom left say, “No matter what age, freedom is always chaotic again,” something like that.

Well, not quite:
McCall would join Braxton, violinist Leroy Jenkins and trumpeter Leo Smith in a quartet sometimes called the “Anthony Braxton Quartet” or the “Creative Construction Company.”
So “Creative Construction Company” also refers to the group on the two studio recordings for BYG under Braxton’s name (Anthony Braxton & This Time).
In fact, just before bringing up the “rocks and bricks” in that Lock interview, Braxton confirms that CCC broke up in Paris. The NY concert was a one-time reunion — and it was later that very evening when Braxton (& Jack DeJohnette) first sat in with the Corea/Holland/Altschul trio.