Also, let's not forget that Braxton came out of an active experience of discrimination while he was deployed in the US army during the Korea wars. Granted he was in the band so he wasn't actually sent to the battlefield (his dear friend and equal genius Henry Threadgill was not so lucky: he was deployed to Vietnam as a soldier), he experienced heavy discrimination and bullying by his fellow white coscripts. It was the first experience of an integrated army in the US, anyway.

Braxton, still today, is a merry lad. When he talks about his music he is like a flood, expressing a ton of concepts in a bizarre way with his own crazy vocabulary. You can see he is not making shit up to appear intellectual or pretentious, it is just how he thinks and he is completely out there. But he actually has a very complete and complex conception of music (everyone who is brave enough to venture in his dense and crazy vision can tackle his magnum opus "the tri-axium writings", which have been recently repressed for like 20 bucks for one volume.

Aside from that, he is an easy-going chap with a silly sense of humour. He is very charming and I find it interesting that he could be the most frustrated person in the world but he chooses to take it easy.

He is truly an american genius. And America, in the typical hypocrisy, is just now considering tributing him the recognition he deserves after making his career miserable for 40 years.