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Henry Threadgill

Born: Feb 15, 1944 in Chicago, IL

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Genre: Jazz

Styles: Avant-Garde, Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative

Biography: The jazz avant-garde has produced dozens of notable improvisers (not surprisingly, since improvisation is arguably the music's defining element) but relatively few great composers. Henry Threadgill is a member of that exclusive club. With his fellow Chicagoans Anthony Braxton and Muhal Richard Abrams, ...Read full biography

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Rag, Bush and All

Released: 1988

Label: Novus

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This CD from altoist Henry Threadgill is a perfect mixture of improvisation and composition, hanging onto devices of the past while creating new music. Some of the ensembles (which match Threadgill with ...Read full review

You Know the Number

Released: 1986

Label: Novus

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You Know the Number is another outstanding record from the Henry Threadgill Sextet. Over the course of six originals, Threadgill and the band fuse complex and spirited arrangements with incisive solo work. ...Read full review

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