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Henry Threadgill: Very Very Threadgill 2014

Read "Henry Threadgill: Very Very Threadgill 2014" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


Henry Threadgill Harlem Stage Gate House Very Very Threadgill New York, NY September 27-28, 2014 Henry Threadgill isn't one to repeat himself. In nearly 40 years of recording, he's only repeated a few compositions. So why would a retrospective of his work by a mere recapitulation? Very Very Threadgill--held Sept. 27 and 28 at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse in upper Manhattan--was a tribute comprised of realizations, not reunions. Pieces from the past were ...

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Henry Threadgill Zooid: Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp

Read "Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Non dovrebbe essere una sorpresa per nessuno sentir dire che Henry Threadgill è da almeno venticinque anni (bypassando la nodale esperienza collettiva di Air, quindi) una delle figure-guida del jazz internazionale, seppur meno reclamizzata di altre, a loro volta di indiscutibile statura, ma magari un po' più inclini a lisciare il pelo all'uditorio. Questo nuovo lavoro del chicagoano, ennesima gemma regalataci da Zooid, gruppo nato una dozzina d'anni fa sulle ceneri - si fa per dire - dei gloriosi Sextet(t) ...

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Henry Threadgill: Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp

Read "Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp" reviewed by Troy Collins


Now into its twelfth consecutive year, Zooid can finally lay claim as Henry Threadgill's longest running ensemble, having superseded the tenures of the venerable composer's most celebrated lineups, including Air, Sextett and Very Very Circus. Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp is the idiosyncratic chamber group's fourth release for Pi Recordings, which was founded in 2001 to simultaneously release a pair of albums by the esteemed AACM multi-instrumentalist: Everybody's Mouth's a Book, by the electric Make a Move quintet; and ...

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Henry Threadgill: Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp

Read "Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


Henry Threadgill's music is best served neither cold nor hot, but with an open mind. The 68 year-old composer and multi-instrumentalist has endured as one of contemporary music's foremost innovators--a cofounder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a bandleader with over thirty releases, and works with a number of eclectic bands including Zooid, currently his longest running band which includes likeminded acolytes--guitarist Liberty Ellman and tuba/trombone player Jose Davila, among others. Zooid's Tomorrow Sunny ...

Album Review

Air: Air Raid

Read "Air Raid" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Tempi felici per i threadgilliani. Quasi in contemporanea con This Brings Us to Volume II (sequel al giustamente celebrato This Brings Us to Volume I) e a pochi mesi dall'uscita del mega-imperdibile-cofanetto-feticcio della Mosaic sul periodo Novus e Columbia (Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air), arriva come manna dal cielo la ristampa Candid del secondo disco degli Air, pubblicato nel '76 dalla Why Not: Air Raid. Il debutto del trio datato '75, Air Song, era già stato ...

Album Review

Henry Threadgill Zooid: This Brings Us to Volume II

Read "This Brings Us to Volume II" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Che Henry Threadgill sia uno dei compositori più originali e significativi della musica del nostro tempo non lo si scopre adesso e non lo si scopre necessariamente con questo disco [ma qualsiasi punto di approdo al suo mondo è estremamente interessante in una carriera dal segno formale così importante]: dagli inizi degli anni Settanta, attraverso le esperienze del trio Air e del Sextett, tra grandi pause e evidenti idiosincrasie nei confronti di un ambiente - quello del “jazz" - che ...

Album Review

Henry Threadgill Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volume 1

Read "This Brings Us To, Volume 1" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Che Henry Threadgill sia uno dei più straordinari protagonisti della storia della musica afroamericana è un dato che si spera nessuno possa mai mettere in discussione: a colpire, oltre alla eccellente qualità delle sue composizioni, è certamente la capacità di lavorare su processi creativi di fortissimo spessore e personalità, del tutto incurante di mode o di ammiccamenti all'ascoltatore. Ne è una prova tangibile il tempo che il musicista ha lasciato passare tra il dittico Everybody's Mouth's a Book / Up ...


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