Six Standards (Quintet) 1996

Album by Anthony Braxton & Dave Douglas

Six Standards (Quintet) 1996 is an album by American saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton, released in 1996. The recording presents Braxton and a quintet interpreting jazz standards with a blend of straight-ahead swing and exploratory improvisation, emphasising textural interplay, extended techniques and a tension between tradition and avant-garde approaches in his mid-career output.