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44		<div style="display: contents"><!--[--><!--[0--><!--[--><div class="bg-bg text-fg min-h-screen overflow-x-hidden transition-colors duration-300"><a href="#main-content" class="bg-bg text-fg sr-only focus:not-sr-only focus:fixed focus:top-4 focus:left-4 focus:z-[100] focus:rounded-lg focus:px-4 focus:py-2 focus:text-sm focus:font-medium">Skip to main content</a> <nav class="bg-nav-bg border-nav-border fixed top-0 right-0 left-0 z-50 border-b backdrop-blur-xl transition-colors duration-300"><div class="mx-auto flex h-16 max-w-6xl items-center justify-between px-6"><a href="/" class="font-script text-2xl tracking-wide">George Braith</a> <div class="flex items-center gap-4 sm:gap-6"><!--[--><a class="text-faint hover:text-fg hidden text-sm transition-colors sm:block" href="/bio">Bio</a><a class="text-faint hover:text-fg hidden text-sm transition-colors sm:block" href="/listen">Listen</a><a class="text-faint hover:text-fg hidden text-sm transition-colors sm:block" href="/press">Press</a><!--]--> <button class="hover:bg-surface-alt cursor-pointer rounded-full p-3 transition-colors" aria-label="Switch to light mode"><!--[-1--><svg width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="text-faint"><path d="M21 12.79A9 9 0 1 1 11.21 3 7 7 0 0 0 21 12.79z"></path></svg><!--]--></button><!----> <a href="/listen" class="text-muted hover:text-fg border-border hover:border-border-strong hidden rounded-full border px-4 py-1.5 text-sm transition-colors sm:inline-flex">Listen</a> <button type="button" class="text-faint hover:text-fg -mr-1 cursor-pointer rounded-full p-3 transition-colors sm:hidden" aria-label="Open menu" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="mobile-nav-panel"><svg width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><!--[-1--><line x1="3" y1="6" x2="21" y2="6"></line><line x1="3" y1="12" x2="21" y2="12"></line><line x1="3" y1="18" x2="21" y2="18"></line><!--]--></svg></button></div></div> <!--[-1--><!--]--></nav><!----> <main id="main-content" tabindex="-1" class="pt-24 pb-24"><div class="pointer-events-none fixed inset-0 transition-colors duration-300" style="background: radial-gradient(ellipse 70% 50% at 60% 40%, var(--t-glow) 0%, transparent 70%)"></div><!----> <!--[--><section class="px-6 pt-8 pb-24"><article class="mx-auto max-w-2xl"><p class="text-faint mb-6 text-xs tracking-[0.3em] uppercase">Listen</p> <h1 class="font-display text-4xl leading-[1.1] tracking-tight sm:text-5xl md:text-6xl">Where to start.</h1> <p class="text-muted mt-6 max-w-md leading-relaxed sm:text-lg">A path through the catalog, not a top-seven ranking. Seven records, ordered
45			for a first listen. Each one takes the same idea from a different angle. Start
46			at the top and move on when you're ready.</p> <p class="text-faint mt-8 text-xs tracking-[0.2em] uppercase">Listen on <!--[--><!--[-1--><!--]--> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/2mbaXhRVOl28cdJhD8mdzp" rel="me noopener" target="_blank" class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline"><span class="whitespace-nowrap">Spotify</span></a><!--[0-->·<!--]--> <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/artist/george-braith/1098965" rel="me noopener" target="_blank" class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline"><span class="whitespace-nowrap">Apple Music</span></a><!--[0-->·<!--]--> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/GeorgeBraith" rel="me noopener" target="_blank" class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline"><span class="whitespace-nowrap">YouTube</span></a><!--]--></p> <ol class="mt-12 space-y-10"><li><div class="text-faint text-sm tracking-wide">01</div> <div class="text-fg-2 mt-1 text-lg font-medium"><em>Extension</em> <span class="text-faint">— 1964 (released 1967), Blue Note</span></div> <p class="text-muted mt-2 leading-relaxed">The Blue Note years in one record. Organ-combo groove, post-bop reach, the
47					double-horn idea, all in the same room at the same time.</p> <!--[0--><p class="text-faint mt-3 text-xs tracking-[0.2em] uppercase">Listen on <!--[--><!--[-1--><!--]--> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6efjgVUOZemTEfR7Iqcg89" rel="noopener" target="_blank" class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline"><span class="whitespace-nowrap">Spotify</span></a><!--[0-->·<!--]--> <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/extension/1438776284" rel="noopener" target="_blank" class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline"><span class="whitespace-nowrap">Apple Music</span></a><!--[0-->·<!--]--> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k-VmY7FycYiB06iHBA2jtI1p7W94-0e7Q" rel="noopener" target="_blank" class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline"><span class="whitespace-nowrap">YouTube</span></a>

47<!--]--></p><!--]--><!----></li> <li><div class="text-faint text-sm tracking-wide">02</div> <div class="text-fg-2 mt-1 text-lg font-medium"><em>Two Souls In One</em> <span class="text-faint">— 1963, Blue Note</span></div> <p class="text-muted mt-2 leading-relaxed">The debut, and a way to hear the original problem in his hands. Grant Green
48					and Billy Gardner are tight behind him from bar one.</p> <!--[0--><p class="text-faint mt-3 text-xs tracking-[0.2em] uppercase">Listen on <!--[--><!--[-1--><!--]--> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1EDai7JZGENdP3s2NbRV6y" rel="noopener" target="_blank" class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline"><span class="whitespace-nowrap">Spotify</span></a><!--[0-->·<!--]--> <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/two-souls-in-one/1438777060" rel="noopener" target="_blank" class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline"><span class="whitespace-nowrap">Apple Music</span></a><!--[0-->·<!--]--> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kaUweJf6z4-2R62Ykji47xqWsiBRckqVU" rel="noopener" target="_blank" class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline"><span class="whitespace-nowrap">YouTube</span></a><!--]--></p><!--]--><!----></li> <li><div class="text-faint text-sm tracking-wide">03</div> <div class="text-fg-2 mt-1 text-lg font-medium"><em>Soul Stream</em> <span class="text-faint">— 1963 (released 1964), Blue Note</span></div> <p class="text-muted mt-2 leading-relaxed">The album where the writing comes forward. Even a hedging contemporary
49					review stopped to credit him as a composer.</p> <!--[0--><p class="text-faint mt-3 text-xs tracking-[0.2em] uppercase">Listen on <!--[--><!--[-1--><!--]--> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1wKWXOmkcyMlviAWav0TnQ" rel="noopener" target="_blank" class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline"><span class="whitespace-nowrap">Spotify</span></a><!--[0-->·<!--]--> <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/soul-stream/1438777284" rel="noopener" target="_blank" class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline"><span class="whitespace-nowrap">Apple Music</span></a><!--[0-->·<!--]--> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_luyl7Obh2RyivB-o-xMo9IvKXDiASECLo" rel="noopener" target="_blank" class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline"><span class="whitespace-nowrap">YouTube</span></a><!--]--></p><!--]--><!----></li> <li><div class="text-faint text-sm tracking-wide">04</div> <div class="text-fg-2 mt-1 text-lg font-medium"><em>Laughing Soul</em> <span class="text-faint">— 1966, Prestige</span></div> <p class="text-muted mt-2 leading-relaxed">Earthier, heavier than the Blue Note dates. Big John Patton on organ,
50					Grant Green on guitar, congas in the mix. The harmonic ideas inside a
51					wider, more physical band.</p> <!--[-1--><!--]--><!----></li> <li><div class="text-faint text-sm tracking-wide">05</div> <div class="text-fg-2 mt-1 text-lg font-medium"><em>Musart</em> <span class="text-faint">— 1966–67 (released 1967), Prestige</span></div> <p class="text-muted mt-2 leading-relaxed">The most open and modal of the 1960s records. He called it "a concert in
52					miniature" in his own liner notes, and that holds up.</p> <!--[-1--><!--]--><!----></li> <li><div class="text-faint text-sm tracking-wide">06</div> <div class="text-fg-2 mt-1 text-lg font-medium"><em>Blue John</em> <span class="text-faint">— John Patton's date, recorded 1963, released 1986, Blue Note</span></div> <p class="text-muted mt-2 leading-relaxed">Braith on soprano and stritch. Same Grant Green, different point of view,
53					and some of the most direct playing he laid down in the 1960s.</p> <!--[-1--><!--]--><!----></li> <li><div class="text-faint text-sm tracking-wide">07</div> <div class="text-fg-2 mt-1 text-lg font-medium"><em>New York Soul</em> <span class="text-faint">— 2021, Excellence Records</span></div> <p class="text-muted mt-2 leading-relaxed">On Spotify. Come here last, or first if you want to know where things stand
54					now.</p> <!--[0--><p class="text-faint mt-3 text-xs tracking-[0.2em] uppercase">Listen on <!--[--><!--[-1--><!--]--> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6fTMtHIj2PRRI7qgMwKgfJ" rel="noopener" target="_blank" class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline"><span class="whitespace-nowrap">Spotify</span></a>

54<!--]--></p><!--]--><!----></li></ol> <p class="text-faint mt-16 text-sm">No public dates currently scheduled. Booking inquiries: use the <a class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline" href="/#contact">contact form</a>.</p> <p class="text-faint mt-12 text-sm leading-relaxed">More: <a class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline" href="/discography">Discography</a> · <a class="text-fg-2 hover:text-fg underline-offset-4 hover:underline" href="/press">Press</a>.</p></article></section><!--]--><!----></main> <footer class="border-border border-t px-6 py-12 transition-colors duration-300"><div class="mx-auto flex max-w-6xl flex-col items-center justify-between gap-4 sm:flex-row"><span class="font-script text-faint text-xl">George Braith</span> <p class="text-faint text-sm">© 2026 George Braith. Saxophonist · inventor of the Braithophone. <a href="/privacy" class="text-faint hover:text-fg ml-2 underline-offset-4 hover:underline">Privacy</a></p></div> <p class="text-faint mx-auto mt-6 max-w-6xl text-center text-xs sm:text-right">Last updated 2026-04-30</p></footer><!----></div><!--]--><!--]--> <!--[-1--><!--]--><!--]-->
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