Henry Threadgill

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Henry Threadgill at Keystone Korner , San Francisco 1979. Photo by Brian McMillen

Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American jazz musician (saxophone, flute, composition).

Life

Threadgill studied at the American College of Music of the Governor's State University . He worked with gospel shows and blues bands . Since 1962 he was a member of the Experimental Band of Muhal Richard Abrams and joined the circle around the later Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Together with Fred Hopkins and Steve McCall , he founded the group Air , with which he participated in the Wildflowers Loft Sessions in 1976. In the band then Pheeroan akLaff and Andrew Cyrille played as drummers. In the mid-1980s, the band was briefly expanded with Threadgills then life partner Cassandra Wilson . Later he often worked with unusual line-ups, for example with four bassists in X-75 or with his Very Very Circus (with tubas, trombones and two guitarists).

Threadgill has a great interest in musical structures and is also dedicated to early jazz forms. He has also worked with David Murray , Bill Laswell , Anthony Braxton , Roscoe Mitchell , Joseph Jarman, and other modern creative musicians .

He was married to dancer Christina Jones, a founding member of the Urban Bush Woman Dance Company. Their daughter with Jones, Pyeng Threadgill, is also a musician. Threadgill lives in New York's Lower East Side with his long-time partner, the Nagamese singer and musicologist Senti Toy. In 2016 he received the Pulitzer Prize for the album In for a Penny, In for a Pound ( Pi Recordings ) .

Discography (selection)

  • 1975–1987: Air  - see there
  • 1979: X-75 - Volume 1 ( Arista / Novus )
  • 1981: The Henry Threadgill Sextet - When Was That? (About Time)
  • 1983: The Henry Threadgill Sextet - Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket (About Time)
  • 1984: Henry Threadgill Sextet - Subject to Change (About Time)
  • 1987: Henry Threadgill Sextet - You Know the Number ( RCA / Novus)
  • 1988: Easily Slip into Another World (RCA / Novus)
  • 1989: Henry Threadgill Sextet - Rag, Bush and All (RCA / Novus)
  • 1990: Flute Force Four - Flutistry ( Black Saint )
  • 1991: Very Very Circus - Spirit of Nuff ... Nuff (Black Saint)
  • 1993: Too Much Sugar for a Dime ( Axiom )
  • 1995: Very Very Circus - Carry the Day ( Columbia )
  • 1995: (Very Very Circus) - Makin 'a Move (Columbia)
  • 1997: Makin 'a Move - Where's Your Cup? (Columbia)
  • 2001: Makin 'a Move - Everybodys Mouth's a Book ( Pi )
  • 2001: Zooid - Up Popped the Two Lips (Pi)
  • 2009: Zooid - This Brings Us To, Volume I (Pi)
  • 2010: Zooid - This Brings Us To, Volume II (Pi)
  • 2012: Zooid - Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp (Pi)
  • 2015: Zooid - In for a Penny, in for a Pound (Pi)
  • 2016: Henry Threadgill Ensemble: Double Up Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  • 2018: Henry Threadgill / 14 or 15 Kestra: AGG - Dirt… and More Dirt

Compilations

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry Threadgill Awarded Pulitzer Prize “In For a Penny, In For a Pound” cited as distinguished composition , JazzTimes
  2. ^ In for a Penny, In for a Pound, by Henry Threadgill (Pi Recordings) . Pulitzer Price
personal data
SURNAME Threadgill, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (saxophone, flute, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois , USA