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	Henry Threadgill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1941), Chicago, Illinois, is an American saxophonist, flautist and composer.
		Threadgill is notable as one of "modern" or "avant-garde" jazz's most unique composers.
		His Sextett was actually a seven piece ensemble, typically consisting of Threadgill, two drummers, double bass, cello, trombone and trumpet; Threadgill variously said he considered the two drummers one unit, or that he considered himself a conductor as much as a performer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Threadgill (313 words)

	Jazz \| All About Jazz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Henry Threadgill is one of those artists whose work is a landscape.
		Henry has found new land and he is mining it to its core.
		Henry, Make A Move, and Zooid will be touring Europe this summer and playing gigs in the United States in the fall.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /artists/hthreadgill.htm (634 words)

	SFBG A and E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		And Henry Threadgill shifted from tenor sax to alto to flute, playing deep inside and well beyond the jazz tradition, and occasionally picked up mallets to bang on his "hubkaphone," a rack of chrome hubcaps strung on clotheslines.
		At the same time, Threadgill has increasingly presented himself as a composer and arranger who does not need to be the center of attention during performances; he can serve as an unmistakably individualist beacon within a collectivist aesthetic even while, as an instrumentalist, he sits out.
		Threadgill's music is alive and visionary, embodying the spirit of past innovations without replicating their forms, creating cognitive and cultural dissonances and resolving them on deeper, more universal levels of meaning.
	www.sfbg.com /AandE/30/39/062696musica.html (934 words)

	Greg Sandow -- Henry Threadgill bio
		Threadgill gets reminded of the improvising chef when he explains something musical, his reasons for rewriting the pieces on his records whenever he performs them live.
		Threadgill's next long-lasting ensemble after Air was the Henry Threadgill Sextett, which didn't have six players -- it had seven, a lineup that included trumpet, trombone, bass, and Threadgill on saxes and flute, along with an unexpected cello and two drummers.
		Threadgill himself had played all those styles; as his freelance career expanded, he'd toured with a gospel choir (though that, he says, was also because the church fascinated him), and played dates at home with RandB groups like the Four Tops and the Dells.
	www.gregsandow.com /threadg.htm (2178 words)

	www.jazzweekly.com \| Interviews
		HENRY THREADGILL: I always plan on recording, but if it happens or it don't happening, I mean, I just keep moving.
		HENRY THREADGILL: I do it for something within me. I mean, the ultimate end is for people to hear it, but that is not in my mind when I do it.
		HENRY THREADGILL: Yeah, I have a lot of music here, a couple of foot lockers, some French trunks, those big French trunks that they used to make.
	www.jazzweekly.com /interviews/hthreadgill.htm (2714 words)

	Music \| Changing tunes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Threadgill’s knack for putting together quirky ensembles that mess with conventional jazz instrumentation first emerged in his seven-piece "sextett" of the ’80s, with three horns and two drummers deployed around the core of cellist Deidre Murray and bassist Fred Hopkins.
		Threadgill has mixed these elements before, but not all in one working band, and he’s rarely given himself as much solo room in music so heavily composed.
		Few soloists are as sensitive to the underlying currents in a band as Threadgill; his solos are always calibrated to the mood and tempo of a piece.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/other_stories/documents/02046164.htm (1396 words)

	Henry Threadgill tribute- Perfect Sound Forever
		Henry Threadgill is one of the great musical masterminds of the past quarter century- a composer, arranger, and innovator who transcends genres in contemporary music.
		Threadgill, a multi instrumentalist whose principle axes include alto sax and flute, emerged from Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
		Threadgill was founder of the seminal trio Air, which also included bassist Fred Hopkins and the late great Steve McCall on drums.
	www.furious.com /perfect/threadgill.html (1341 words)

	BBC - Jazz Review - Henry Threadgill, Everybody's Mouth's a Book
		Even without Threadgill, this quartet would be a great listen, but his compositions and instrumental work take the music to a whole other level.
		As both composer and musician, Threadgill has a strong connection to Ornette Coleman, but while his music, like Coleman's, is often abstract and angular, with unexpected key changes and multiple melody lines, it also has a stronger intellectual component than Coleman's, and is often substantially written out.
		Threadgill's knowledge of the jazz tradition is both encyclopaedic and catholic; he moves gracefully from classically-flavoured chamber jazz and pensive ballads to spiky blues, free jazz and a healthy heap o' funk.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/jazz/reviews/henry_everybody.shtml (579 words)

	JJA Library
		Threadgill music is compelling, even when he and his collaborators are playing instruments as seemingly unthreatening as flutes.
		Threadgill is also a James Carter fan, though he worries that too much is being made of his extraordinary technical prowess on the saxophone.
		Threadgill is irked that he didn't hear about his contract termination until after he returned from India with a new Make a Move project ready to rehearse.
	www.jazzhouse.org /library/index.php3?read=ouellette2 (4032 words)

	Columbia News ::: Henry Threadgill and Aggregation Orb Make Debut Performance Together at Columbia, October 22
		Now, more than 25 years later, as Columbia celebrates its 250th anniversary, Henry Threadgill, one of the AACM's most celebrated alumni, is returning to campus on Wednesday, October 22, for a performance in Miller Theatre.
		Threadgill himself avoids labeling the music as jazz or as anything but his own.
		Topics to be discussed range from Threadgill's experiences as a young church player and his role among the great saxophone players to the "lost" period in jazz history in the 1970s and Threadgill's use of language and poetry in his works.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/03/10/jazz_threadgill_concert.html (573 words)

	Air (jazz group) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Air was a jazz trio founded in 1971 by saxophone player Henry Threadgill, double bassist Fred Hopkins and drummer Steve McCall.
		They began when Threadgill was asked by Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois to arrange a number of Scott Joplin songs.
		Joplin was so strongly associated with piano that the musicians enjoyed the challenge of performing his trademark songs without piano.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Air_(jazz_group) (225 words)

	Henry Threadgill News
		When Cuban pianist Omar Sosa arrived in the Bay Area in the mid-1990s, his impact on the jazz scene was so swift and powerful that even though he moved to Barcelona at the end of 1999, his presence can still be...
		In recent settings, notably his sextet Zooid, Henry Threadgill has savored the effect of archly contrasting timbres.
		It would be difficult to overestimate Henry Threadgill's role in perpetually altering the meaning of jazz.
	www.topix.net /who/henry-threadgill (159 words)

	Henry Threadgill & Make a Move - Everybodys Mouth's a Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Make A Move is a very specific band for a very specific music, and the results from this session are the beginning of what may one day be seen as a revolution in music as important as any that has happened this century.
		Henry’s electric band has grown immensely since their last studio effort.
		Everbodys Mouth’s a Book documents what those who have been at Henry’s shows already know; he is one of the great composers of this time, and the release of a new Threadgill album is the planting of a sign post in the road of creative music.
	www.pirecordings.com /pi01 (215 words)

	E.J.N. - HENRY THREADGILL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Threadgill continued his formal musical education at Wilson Junior College and received a degree in flute and composition from the American Conservatory of Music.
		Threadgill moved to New York City in 1975 and quickly became an integral and influential member of creative circles flourishing in lower Manhattan's lofts and clubs.
		Threadgill sees himself as an artist in a state of constant change, and views his creative process as an ever-evolving one.
	www.ejn.it /mus/threadgi.htm (913 words)

	Henry Threadgill
		Henry Threadgill's importance to modern jazz cannot be denied, as there are few composers who possess such a distinguishable methodology to music in general.
		The artist along with a select few is inadvertently signaling in a new golden age of jazz-based fundamentals and thought processes, as this unfolding saga continually ascends to loftier heights.
		He was strongly influenced by Muhal Richard Abrams and his Chicago-based Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, which pioneered exactly the blend of avant-garde jazz and abstract 20th century classical styles that Threadgill exemplifies in his work with Air.
	pages.infinit.net /mb2/dimanche22h00/fevr17_02/threadgill.html (423 words)

	Henry Threadgill Makes A Move (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Threadgill's music over the last decade has grown from the dense, complex compositions of his Very Very Circus - a thick mix of tubas, guitars, drums and horns - to the massive, slowly evolving themes of Make a Move and his current group, Zooid.
		Threadgill has another Zooid release planned, but won't be a CD (as of press time, it will be Henry Threadgill's Zooid: Pop Start the Tape, Stop on Hardedge).
		The state of the art has left Threadgill ambivalent about being associated with the music he grew up on and confused about the parallels that are often drawn to explain his work.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=16376 (1272 words)

	Henry Threadgill's Zooid, Up Popped The Two Lips - smh.com.au
		The old Henry of Threadgill Street sounds as fresh and bright as ever.
		Threadgill was one of the original eclectics but his sources were always subtle and fully absorbed into an instantly recognisable music.
		Using the tuba, Threadgill connects his music to the eccentricities of early jazz.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/05/24/1022038470941.html (362 words)

	www.jazzweekly.com \| Reviews
		Five years after his unsatisfactory major label dalliance ended, composer/saxophonist Henry Threadgill is back with not one, but two new CDs on a brand-new label.
		Showcasing one quintet and an almost wholly different sextet performing new Threadgill's pieces, the sessions are exhilarating and comfortable at the same time.
		Threadgill has been quoted as saying that while his music may be "radically different" most listeners don't cotton on to that "because the difference in approach doesn't sound radical".
	www.jazzweekly.com /reviews/hthreadgill_everybodys.htm (806 words)

	THREADGILL, Henry : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Douglas Ewart and Joseph Jarman and several basses, plus vocals by Amina Claudine Myers; the Sextett was six pieces plus Threadgill for When Was That?, Just The Facts And Pass The Bucket and Subject To Change '82--4 on About Time.
		'97 by Henry Threadgill and Make a Move was a quintet with Tony Cedras on accordion and harmonium, Brandon Ross on guitars, Stomu Takeishi on five-string fretless bass, J. Lewis on drums.
		Threadgill's contemporary music uses classical harmonies, gospel voicings and the earliest jazz principle, of collective improvisation; his group is tightly drilled yet at ease, and he plays no more solos than anyone else.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/t/T48.HTM (422 words)

	Bill Laswell Discography
		Henry Threadgill has made a career out of creating separate identities for the ensembles he creates to perform his music.
		Threadgill is more on his game as a composer and as a bandleader than at any point in his career.
		Henry Threadgill has been signed by major labels twice that I can recall, by Novus (a subsidiary of BMG) in the 80s -- "You Know the Number" was the first of 3 releases by his Sextet, and it's time to reissue them!
	www.silent-watcher.net /laswell/tawz/uppoppedtwolips.html (1175 words)

	Jazzmatazz Review - Henry Threadgill - Everybodys Mouth's A Book & Up Popped The Two Lips
		Make a Move is Threadgill's electric group, with electric guitar, electric bass, vibes and drums in addition to Threadgill's alto and flute.
		Up Popped the Two Lips is the first album by his acoustic, string-oriented group Zooid, which uses the unusual combination of guitar, oud and cello.
		Often, so much is going on simultaneously that it can be rewarding to concentrate one's listening on different elements on different listens-I've enjoyed switching from listening to the effect of the whole piece to listening to one instrument or to the interaction of a pair of instruments.
	home.att.net /~jazzmatazz/reviews.p/R0205b.html (318 words)

	eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net
		Henry Threadgill’s 3+3 is composed of Henry Threadgill, alto saxophone, flute; Chris Hoffman, Greg Hoffernan, and Rubin Kodheli, cello; Jose Davila, tuba; and Elliot Humberto Kavee, drums.
		Threadgill has written often for cello and has led many groups in which cello plays a major part.
		Threadgill has presented music for dance and theater performances since the 1970s, and has toured the world many times, performing with his various ensembles in North America, Europe, and Asia.
	www.ejazznews.com /print.php?sid=4858 (550 words)

	Henry Threadgill's Zooid - Up Popped the Two Lips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Zooid is Henry’s first all acoustic band since The Sextet, and his first band since X-75 which has focused so heavily on strings.
		As always with Henry the name fits the band perfectly, and Zooid can move as a group, and then a moment later become the stage for any player’s voice to sound independently.
		Zooid is a new band for Henry and that freshness helps to make Up Popped the Two Lips one of Henry’s most infectious albums yet.
	www.pirecordings.com /pi02 (210 words)

	Bill Laswell Discography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Henry Threadgill : alto saxophone, flute; Tony Cedras : accordion, harmonium; Brandon Ross : electric guitar, classical guitar; Stomu Takeishi : fretless bass; J.T. Lewis : drums.
		Henry Threadgill's Where's Your Cup?, his last recording for Columbia, is the most recent document of the evolution of a band, a sound - a sonic world that is Threadgill's, and which is in constant flux.
		The members of Threadgill's ensemble here, Make a Move - Tony Cedras on harmonium and accordion, Brandon Ross on guitars, Stomu Takeishi on electric bass, and J. Lewis on drums - will each continue to assert themselves in a variety of imaginative musical contexts.
	www.silent-watcher.net /laswell/tawz/wheresyourcup.html (173 words)

	Ornette Coleman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Threadgill refuses to categorize his music at all, especially not as jazz.
		Threadgill's Makin' a Move is his second album for Columbia.
		Threadgill has also been working to break down hierarchies -- in his case, the distinctions among rhythm, lead, and harmony players.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/music/reviews/12-01-95/ORNETTE_COLEMAN.html (1346 words)

	Henry Threadgill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Composer, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader HENRY THREADGILL has been a seminal figure in the vanguard of contemporary instrumental music since the early 1970s.
		It's no surprise that Threadgill won Best Composer honors in Downbeat's International Jazz Critic's Poll in 1991, 1990, 1989 and 1988, when he placed in 11 categories and had two albums nominated as Record of theYear.
		A more remarkable tribute to his craft is the fact that he received the composer award in 1988, 1989 and 1991 from Downbeat's readers, as well.
	aacmchicago.org /members/Threadgill.html (175 words)

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