Composer and woodwind player Henry Threadgill has been combining chamber music with improvisation for almost half a century. His work began with his membership in the Association for the Advancement ...
Jazz musicians today find profound inspiration in a lot of different places -- and a few of them might surprise you. Plenty of folks thrive in the tight-knit Chicago scene, but some go much further ...
Henry Threadgill. Photo by Seth Rosner, via Spoleto Festival USA. When Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill writes for his Zooid ensemble, his curious nature sits at the center of his ...
No artist manages to marry compositional specificity and independent thought to the degree that Henry Threadgill does. And while his singular vision(s) with groups like Air and Very Very Circus have ...
Henry Threadgill's ZOOID featuring Liberty Ellman (acoustic guitar), Jose Davila (trombone and tuba), Stomu Takeishi (acoustic bass guitar) and Elliot Humberto Kavee (drums). November 30-December 2, ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. There’s no way to talk about Henry Threadgill’s Zooid without first ...
During the AACM’s late-60s heyday it was a given that musicians like Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, and Anthony Braxton would look far outside the jazz continuum for ideas. But of all its ...
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