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Henry Threadgill: Cut You Where You Was

Read "Cut You Where You Was" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
October 19, 2026

Affrancarsi e focalizzare. Liberare e stabilire relazioni. Nella pratica musicale, Henry Threadgill lo fa a proprio modo, tenendo preziosa la sua maturazione libertaria ed estremamente ricca di stimoli all'interno della AACM. Cercando e inventando un proprio linguaggio, nello stile di quella speciale aggregazione. Una propria mappa di orientamento musicale, stilistico, esplorativo, da cui scaturiscono opere ricchissime di spunti, di elasticità e ispirazione. Leggerezza danzante e profondità delle idee si fondono, dialogano, si stimolano a vicenda. Creano più punti di vista, ...

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Henry Threadgill Zooid: Cut You Where You Was

Read "Cut You Where You Was" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 19, 2026

In 2001, Seth Rosner resurrected reed man Henry Threadgill's career by establishing Pi Recordings, initially for the sole purpose of releasing Threadgill recordings. Threadgill wanted to put out two albums simultaneously. Rosner said he would have agreed to four if that was what the artist requested. But two it was: Up Popped Two Lips by Henry Threadgill's Zooid and Everybody's Mouth's a Book, by Henry Threadgill & Make A Move. This was a move of genius on Rosner's part. Since ...

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Jorge Sylvester Spontaneous Expressions: Mayhem At Large--The Last Baha'i Session

Read "Mayhem At Large--The Last Baha'i Session" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 11, 2026

This two-disc set by saxophonist Jorge Sylvester's Spontaneous Expressions documents the last of the Tuesday evening jazz concerts at the Baha'i Center on East 11th Street in New York City. According to the jacket notes, the event was recorded live in March 2020. If that is so, Sylvester's listeners have earned top prize as the quietest audience in recorded history. Nary a sound. Either they were fast asleep or expressing an opinion. The discs themselves are...well, the words ...

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Henry Threadgill: The Other One

Read "The Other One" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
October 30, 2023

Giunto sulla soglia delle ottanta primavere, Henry Threadgill non lascia sbiadire la propria splendida vitalità creativa. Lo ha fatto quest'anno sia con la pubblicazione dell'imperdibile autobiografiaEasily Slip into Another World, che con una nuova realizzazione discografica, The Other One. Pure questa imperdibile, si colloca tra i lavori che lo hanno visto impegnato esclusivamente come compositore e direttore dell'ensemble, non in qualità di strumentista e solista, sulla traccia dei precedenti Old Locks and Irregular Verbs, del 2016, e Double ...

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Henry Threadgill: The Other One

Read "The Other One" reviewed by John Ephland

by John Ephland
July 25, 2023

Listening to Henry Threadgill's music, the bobbing and weaving doesn't maintain a continuity but can jump from one strand to another, one scene to another, as in a dream. It is tonal and not, just as dreams are, perhaps, rhapsodic or unkempt, the story or plot being as tangible, fungible as a summer breeze. Much is made of Threadgill's chamber-music esthetic. And rightly so. It is “so chamber music precise it must all be premeditated, right?" asked the ...

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Henry Threadgill Ensemble: The Other One

Read "The Other One" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
July 11, 2023

Now that Henry Threadgill has begun receiving the accolades he has long deserved--the Pulitzer Prize he won in 2016 for In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi Recordings, 2015) being just the most prominent example--it is impressive to find him still relentlessly stretching himself as a performer and composer. Since his first forays into the jazz avant-garde in the 1970s, the maverick multi-instrumentalist has always made music that challenges listeners in exciting ways, but it is his uncanny ...

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Warriors of the Wonderful Sound: Soundpath

Read "Soundpath" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 9, 2021

If we alter President John F. Kennedy's 1962 moon spaceflight speech just a bit, it easily fits the big band adaptation of Muhal Richard Abrams' magnum opus Soundpath, “We choose to perform this composition not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept." Accepting the challenge was band leader Bobby Zankel and ...