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Conversations with Composers: Henry Threadgill in Conversation with Brent Hayes Edwards
The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents its Conversations Series, through which Brent Hayes Edwards will engage leading composer Henry Threadgill in a reflection on the role of improvisation in his creative life. Threadgill's compositions are strikingly original, always surprising, and far-reaching. Though his ensembles—Air, the Sextett, Very Very Circus, the Society Situation Dance ...
Sarah Wilson: Trapeze Project
by Eyal Hareuveni
San Francisco-based trumpeter/vocalist Sarah Wilson is gifted with idiosyncratic and fresh composing skills that are so rare in jazz musicians who have gone through the formal avenues of jazz education. Her career began when she composed and played music for the Bread and Puppet Theater troupe; continued by studying with esteemed trumpeters John McNeil and Laurie ...
Henry Threadgill's "This Brings Us To, vol. 2" Out Now
October 26th Henry Threadgill's This Brings Us To, vol. 2 comes out. 2009's This Brings Us To, vol. 1 received across-the-board accolades as one of the best releases of 2009, coming in at #4 in the Down Beat Critics Poll, #4 in the Jazz Times Poll, and #2 in the Village Voice Jazz Poll, as well ...
Henry Threadgill - This Brings Us To, Volume II (2010)
By Pico About this time last year Henry Threadgill ended a eight year hiatus from the recording studio and released This Brings Us To, Vol. 1. It was very well received, and made almost everyone's year-end “best of" jazz albums for 2009, including ours. On one day short of a year since that release, Threadgill and ...
Henry Threadgill: Complete Novus/Columbia Recording
A First-Ever Opportunity To Experience Two Decades of Exceptional Artistry Henry Threadgill & Air Available at shop.allaboutjazz.com Talk to Henry Threadgill about the influences in his music, and he is drawn to talk about food. Or patterns of light in the sky. Or a building across the street from a rehearsal studio. Talking about an instrument's ...
Bobby Zankel: Peaceful Jazz Warrior
by Victor L. Schermer
For many decades, Philadelphia has been home to a cadre of multi-generational jazz musicians who go on year-after-year composing, arranging and performing some of the best, highest level music to be heard anywhere. This tradition is exemplified in no better way than by alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader Bobby Zankel. Zankel apprenticed with legendary ...
Introducing Anthony Braxton
by Robert Levin
[Editor's Note: This article first appeared in Jazz & Pop Magazine, 1970]To anyone still questioning the validity of the systems and methods at which Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman arrived, I would first of all recommend that he listen more attentively to the work of those men. But I'd also suggest that he make ...
Steve Lehman / Rudresh Mahanthappa: Dual Identity
by Mark F. Turner
Recorded live at Portugal's Braga Jazz Festival in 2009 Dual Identity features two leading sax innovators--Steve Lehman and Rudresh Mahanthappa--in a stunning performance. Their discographies are synonymous with the current environment of progressive jazz; music that stretches boundaries with fresh ideas in conceptualization (Lehman's spectral harmony experiments in Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi Recordings, 2009)) and ...
Stephan Crump: Reclamation
by Kurt Gottschalk
The 2006 debut of Stephan Crump's Rosetta (Papillon Sounds) was unusual in a number of ways, not least that it didn't seem to be trying to be unusual. The trio of upright bass, acoustic guitar and electric guitar played tightly woven, structured music, even without a drummer, and managed to find new ground in the shrinking ...
Henry Threadgill & Zooid
by AAJ Italy Staff
Angelica Teatro San Leonardo - Bologna - 6.5.2010 Era l'ottobre del 2008 quando Henry Threadgill capitò in Italia con gli Zooid ridisegnati secondo l'attuale line-up, riduzione di quella all'opera nei dischi gemelli Everybodys Mouth's a Book e Up Popped the Two Lips del 2001. Chi scrive ebbe la fortuna di assistere a due esibizioni del quintetto ...
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