This is FRESH AIR. Composer and saxophonist Henry Threadgill has led a variety of colorful, small and large bands from A to Z - specifically, from Air to Zooid. He was named an NEA jazz master in 2020 ...

This is FRESH AIR. Composer Henry Threadgill just won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for music for last year's album "In For A Penny, In For A Pound." It was played by the quintet Zooid with the composer on ...

Air was a flagship of the 1970s avant-garde, but saxophonist Henry Threadgill, bassist Fred Hopkins and drummer Steve McCall first came together to play Scott Joplin's piano music. They preserved his ...

This Chicago, IL born modernist worked his way through the ranks of the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians), while eventually forming the highly regarded trio Air, back in the ...

Henry Threadgill first performed as a percussionist in his high school marching band before taking up the baritone saxophone and later a large portion of the woodwind instrument family. He soon ...

“Music is everything that makes the musician,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer, saxophonist and flautist Henry Threadgill notes in “Easily Slip Into Another World,” his fascinating memoir not ...

Henry Threadgill: ‘Sometimes you talk to people and you’re like, hey, lighten up, because they’re taking everything, including themselves, way too seriously. When you look at art it’s the same thing’ ...

Two night presentation and performance from 'Henry Threadgill and Party Of' To Run, announced May 20 & 21 at Roulette in Brooklyn, New York. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, saxophonist and flutist ...

Threadgill's autobiography, written with Brent Hayes Edwards is called Easily Slip into Another World. His album, The Other One, is a three-movement composition written for a 12-piece ensemble. This ...

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