K-Billy's Super Sounds of the '70s, Part 1

For Trio was released on March 1, 1978. The Trio, in this case, consisted of Anthony Braxton along with Henry Threadgill and Douglas Ewart. 

In March 1978, the U.S. music charts were dominated by the Bee Gees and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, with Night Fever and Stayin' Alive fighting for the top spot alongside Andy Gibb's (Love Is) Thicker Than Water. Other major hits included Eric Clapton's Lay Down Sally and Billy Joel's Just the Way You Are. I wasn't having any part of that shit back then, and had fully retreated into an alternative music universe of free and avant-garde jazz. My girlfriend, a hardcore folk music/Joni Mitchell fan, threatened to leave me if I ever played Braxton in her presence again. "Literally," she told me, "Anything but the Brax." So this was the sound of freedom and liberation to me.