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Article: Book Review

Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life In Music

Read "Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life In Music" reviewed by David A. Orthmann


Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life In Music Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards403 pagesISBN: #9781524749071Alfred A. Knopf 2023 Describing Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life In Music as an autobiography of a jazz musician misses the mark by a wide margin. Better to say ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Henry Threadgill, Jazz 1975, DC Jazz Festival, and more

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This week I've been reading Henry Threadgill's autobiography Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music. Therefore, lets enjoy a set from Threadgill's bands Air, Sextett, and Very Very Circus. Then, recordings form our randomly featured year in music, 1975 with Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock and Joanne Brackeen. And finally, a mini preview ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Henry Threadgill, Dan Weiss, Gordon Grdina and More

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By chance, this program contains several tributes to the music of Tim Berne, Dave Frishberg, and Gerry Mulligan. The musicians actually heard on the show include Henry Threadgill, Gordon Grdina, Claire Martin, and Dan Weiss. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Courtois / Erdmann / Fincker, Knee Jerk, Twirls & Nina Simone

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This episode is dotted throughout with new releases by international artists: saxophonists Daniel Erdmann and Robin Fincker with cellist Vincent Courtois (France), saxophonist Grgur Savic (Croatia), bassist Federico Solomeiwicz (Argentina), Twirls and Simon Rummel Ensemble (Germany), Chilean saxophonist Diego Manuschevich (Chile), Knee Jerk (Canada), and flautist Joe Melnicove (USA/Israel). Plus, a version of “Mississippi Goddamn" by ...

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Article: Album Review

Henry Threadgill: The Other One

Read "The Other One" reviewed by John Ephland


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.

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Article: Live Review

Spoleto Festival USA 2023

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Spoleto Festival USA Queen Street Playhouse, Sottile Theatre, TD Arena Charleston, SC May 26 to June 11, 2023 Respect for the elders in the jazz lineup of this year's Spoleto Festival USA jazz was gracefully counterbalanced by a hearty welcome to newer generations. It only felt fleetingly like the closing of ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Henry Threadgill Ensemble, Michel Lambert & Phil Haynes

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Featured in this episode is the much-acclaimed and premier innovator in creative music, Henry Threadgill with his ensemble; you'll hear the entire first movement from his brand new The Other One . Also new this week, Canadian drummer Michel Lambert with a Finnish band, members of which he played with on guitarist Raoul Bjorkenheim's infamous Krakatau, ...

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Article: Album Review

Henry Threadgill Ensemble: The Other One

Read "The Other One" reviewed by Troy Dostert


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 ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Kresten Osgood, Adriano Clemente & Rempis Percussion Quartet

Read "Kresten Osgood, Adriano Clemente & Rempis Percussion Quartet" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


Danish drummer Kresten Osgood has always fascinated me with his versatility, and he's one of those do-everything cats: composer, saxophonist, singer, organizer, media host and rapper. But it's his drumming that gets the spotlight in this show with a peek at back catalogue plus a new release with iconic drummer Ra Kalam Bob Moses and guitarist ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Brand New Releases from Engin Özşahin And More

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On this edition of the show a selection of new releases including Engin Özşahin, Location Location Location (Anthony Pirog, Michael Formanek, and, Mike Pride), Henry Threadgill, The Jazz Warriors, Paul Flaherty with Jim Matus & Larry Derdeyn, Tania Giannouli, Kaisa's Machine (Kaisa Mäensivu) , Will Bonness, No Fast Food (Phil Haynes, Dave Liebman and Drew Gress) ...


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