It's hard to imagine this concert happening in 1974, when the style of improvised collaboration between these phenomenal musicians had not fully calcified into an accepted genre. While the years passed may have diminished the shock of Live at Wigmor, the playing captured remains particularly beautiful and expressive. Bailey seems to be leading in the more pointillistic and textural sections, where Braxton moves to the foreground in the more harmonic parts. My 1980 reissue looks a lot worse than the original albums, but it combines everything into a convenient gatefold and it features some nice pictures. It's an impressive live recording for 1974, and the reissue pressing is nice too, but I wish the sides were not arranged with respect to a stacking turntable (1/4 on one LP, 2/3 on the other).
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