Monday Jan 16 | All About Jazz
Henry Threadgill isn't hesitant to state his place in music. He has, he said quite plainly, "changed music both horizontally and vertically." His work isn't "strident," he said.
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Henry Threadgill's Zooid at Roulette (Brooklyn) from November 30 to December 2
Liberty Ellman , Jose Davila , Stomu Takeishi and Elliot Humberto Kavee ...Threadgill, hailed by Nate Chinen of The New York Times as one of the most thrillingly elusive composers in and around the jazz idiom: is one of the great musical... FULL ARTICLE AT All ABout Jazz
You don't need to bend the six degrees of separation theory much to connect the influential Chicago-born composer, saxist and flautist Henry Threadgill to Aaron Copland and Philip Glass .
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