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This music is Unidentified title from AIR in Salzburg .
The same tune also appears in the more than 38 minutes long track 1 of the Sextet at Jazzmania . If you know the title of this composition, please tell me !.
Photo of Henry Threadgill from a Jazz Times article, September 1983. In his earlier recordings Henry was a multi-instrumentalist, but later he has concentrated himself more on alto saxophone and flutes.
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Official releases
69.07.02 - 69.08.20 / Muhal Richard Abrams: Young at Heart, Wise in Time / Delmark
75.09.10 / AIR: AIR Song / Why Not
76.05.22 / Various Artists (AIR): Wildflowers 1 / Douglas
76.07.01 - 77.10.28 / AIR: Live AIR / Black Saint
76.07.15 / AIR: AIR Raid / Why Not
76.09.08 / Chico Freeman: Morning Prayer / Why Not
77.01.22 / Roscoe Mitchell: Nonaah / Nessa
77.09.22 / Anthony Braxton: For Trio / Arista
77.11.17 / AIR: AIR Time / Nessa
77.11.18 / [AIR: AIR Time / Nessa]
77.11.01 - 77.12.31 / Muhal Richard Abrams: 1-OQA+19 / Black Saint
78.02.21 / AIR: Open Air Suit / Arista/Novus
78.02.22 / [AIR: Open Air Suit / Arista/Novus]
78.03.27 - 78.04.27 / Frank Walton: Reality / Delmark
78.07.22 / AIR: Montreux Suisse Air / Arista/Novus
78.07.27 / Roscoe Mitchell: L-R-G/The Maze/S II Examples / Nessa
79.01.13 / Henry Threadgill: X-75 / Arista/Novus
79.05.11 / AIR: AIR Lore / Arista/Novus
79.05.12 / [AIR: AIR Lore / Arista/Novus]
80.07.25 / David Murray Octet: Ming / Black Saint
80.07.28 / [David Murray Octet: Ming / Black Saint]
80.12.28 / AIR: AIR Mail / Black Saint
81.00.00 / Material: Memory Serves / Celluloid
81.00.00 / Various Artists (Muhal Richard Abrams): Amarcord Nino Rota / Hannibal
81.09.30 / The Henry Threadgill Sextet: When Was That? / About Time
81.10.01 / [The Henry Threadgill Sextet: When Was That? / About Time]
81.10.31 / David Murray Octet: Home / Black Saint
81.11.01 / [David Murray Octet: Home / Black Saint]
82.01.23 / AIR: 80 Degrees Below '82 / Antilles
82.07.14 / David Murray Octet: Murray's Steps / Black Saint
82.07.15 / [David Murray Octet: Murray's Steps / Black Saint]
82.07.19 / [David Murray Octet: Murray's Steps / Black Saint]
83.03.22 / The Henry Threadgill Sextet: Just The Facts And Pass The Bucket / About Time
83.03.23 / [The Henry Threadgill Sextet: Just The Facts And Pass The Bucket / About Time]
83.07.00 / NEW AIR: Live at Montreal International Jazz Festival / Black Saint
84.12.07 / The Henry Threadgill Sextet: Subject to Change / About Time
84.12.08 / [The Henry Threadgill Sextet: Subject to Change / About Time]
84.12.09 / [The Henry Threadgill Sextet: Subject to Change / About Time]
85.00.00 / Various Artists: Lost In The Stars; The Music of Kurt Weill / A&M;
86.06.02 / NEW AIR: Air Show No. 1 / Black Saint
86.06.03 / [NEW AIR: Air Show No. 1 / Black Saint]
86.10.12 / Henry Threadgill Sextett: You Know the Number / RCA/Novus
87.00.00 / Sly & Robbie: Rhythm Killers / Island
87.05.00 / Cassandra Wilson: Days Aweigh / Winter & Winter
87.09.20 / Henry Threadgill Sextett: Easily Slip Into Another World / RCA/Novus
88.12.00 / Henry Threadgill Sextett: Rag, Bush and All / RCA/Novus
90.06.26 / Flute Force Four: Flutistry / Black Saint
90.11.19 / Very Very Circus: Spirit of Nuff...Nuff / Black Saint
90.11.20 / [Very Very Circus: Spirit of Nuff...Nuff / Black Saint]
90.11.21 / [Very Very Circus: Spirit of Nuff...Nuff / Black Saint]
91.00.00 / Bahia Black: Ritual Beating System / Axiom
91.00.00 / Material: The Third Power / Axiom
91.05.04 / Very Very Circus: Live at Koncepts / Taylor Made
92.04.09 / Leroy Jenkins: Themes & Improvisations on the Blues / CRI
92.05.00 / Kip Hanrahan/Paul Haines: Darn It! / American Clave
92.11.12 / Various Artists: Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus / Columbia
93.00.00 / Very Very Circus: Too Much Sugar for a Dime / Axiom
93.00.01 / Julian Schnabel: Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud / Axiom
93.01.23 / Billy Bang/Craig Harris/Henry Threadgill: Hip Hop Be Bop / ITM
93.01.24 / [Billy Bang/Craig Harris/Henry Threadgill: Hip Hop Be Bop]
93.01.25 / [Billy Bang/Craig Harris/Henry Threadgill: Hip Hop Be Bop]
93.08.17 / Henry Threadgill: Song Out of My Trees / Black Saint
93.08.18 / Henry Threadgill: Song Out of My Trees / Black Saint]
93.08.19 / Henry Threadgill: Song Out of My Trees / Black Saint]
94.00.00 / Sola: Blues in the East / Axiom
94.07.00 - 96.06.00 / Kip Hanrahan: A Thousand Nights and a Night (Shadow Night - 1) / american clavé
95.00.00 / Very Very Circus Plus: Carry the Day / Columbia
95.06.00 / Henry Threadgill: Makin' a Move / Columbia
96.02.27 / Abiodun Oyewole: 25 Years / Rykodisc
96.08.00 / Henry Threadgill & Make a Move: Where's Your Cup? / Columbia
97.00.00 - 01.00.00 / Jean-Paul Bourelly: Trance Atlantic - Boom Bop II / Challenge
98.00.00 / Douglas Ewart and Inventions Clarinet Choir: Angles Of Entrance / Arawak
99.07.00 / Jean-Paul Bourelly: Boom Bop / Jazz Magnet
01.02.25 / Henry Threadgill & Make a Move: Everybodys Mouth's A Book / Pi
01.02.26 / Henry Threadgill & Make a Move: Everybodys Mouth's A Book / Pi
01.02.27 / Henry Threadgill & Make a Move: Everybodys Mouth's A Book / Pi
01.04.28 / Zooid: Up Popped The Two Lips / Pi
01.04.29 / Zooid: Up Popped The Two Lips / Pi
01.04.30 / Zooid: Up Popped The Two Lips / Pi
01.07.10 / Ejigayehu "Gigi" Shibabaw: Gigi / Palm Pictures
02.03.00 / Lucky Peterson: Black Midnight Sun / Dreyfus Records (France)
03.09.12 / Zooid: Pop Start the Tape, StoP / Hardedge
04.05.18 / Billy Bang: Vietnam: Reflections / Justin Time
04.05.19 / Billy Bang: Vietnam: Reflections / Justin Time
06.05.08 / Dafnis Prieto: Absolute Quintet / Zoho Music
08.11.00 / Zooid: this brings us to, volume 1 / Pi
08.11.01 / Zooid: this brings us to, volume 2 / Pi
10.03.12 / Henry Threadgill: Complete Remastered Black Saint Recordings / CAM Jazz
10.10.00 / Henry Threadgill: Complete Novus/Columbia Recordings (#247) / Mosaic
11.12.03 / Henry Threadgill Zooid: Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp / Pi
11.12.04 / Henry Threadgill Zooid: Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp / Pi
12.12.20 / Wadada Leo Smith: The Great Lakes Suites / TUM Records
13.08.29 / Jack DeJohnette: Made in Chicago / ECM Records
14.12.08 / Henry Threadgill Zooid: In for a Penny, In for a Pound / Pi
14.12.09 / Henry Threadgill Zooid: In for a Penny, In for a Pound / Pi
15.05.22 / Henry Threadgill Ensemble Double-Up: Old Locks and Irregular Verbs / Pi
Broadcasts and private recordings
78.00.00 / Muhal Richard Abrams: In Laren / Radio Broadcast
79.06.17 / AIR in Lovere / Concert recording
79.06.27 / AIR Live in Pisa '79 / Concert recording
80.11.00 / Julius Hemphill Big Band, The Public Theatre, NYC / Private recording
81.07.04 / Henry Threadgill Sextet, Jazzmania, NYC / Private recording
82.03.20 / AIR & Amiri Baraka / WDR Radio Broadcast
82.04.02 / AIR in Salzburg / Concert recording
82.06.29 / Henry Threadgill Sextet at Kool Jazz festival, NYC / Radio Broadcast
85.00.01 / Henry Threadgill and Cassandra Wilson with John Hicks' trio / Radio Broadcast
85.02.02 / Windstring Ensemble: "Imaginary Film & Radio Show" / Private recording
85.09.27 / Henry Threadgill Sextet in Amsterdam / Radio Broadcast
86.03.14 / NEW AIR in Hofheim / Private recording
86.03.19 / NEW AIR in Rankweil / Private recording
87.12.12 / Henry Threadgill and Orchestra: at the Brooklyn Academy of Music / VHS recording
89.07.11 / Henry Threadgill Sextett: Sweet Holy Rag / Radio Broadcast
90.00.00 / Very Very Circus in Nürnberg / Radio Broadcast
93.03.00 / Very Very Circus in Lund / Radio Broadcast
96.07.08 / Henry Threadgill & Make a Move at Copenhagen Jazz Festival / Radio Broadcast
99.07.09 / Henry Threadgill & Make a Move at North Sea Jazz Festival / Radio Broadcast
01.08.24 / Zooid in Saalfelden / Radio Broadcast
07.08.26 / Zooid & Strings of the Salzburg Young Philharmonic Orchestra / Radio Broadcast
08.10.25 / Zooid in Umeå / Radio Broadcast
12.08.25 / Muhal Richard Abrams' Experimental Band: Live in Saalfelden / Radio Broadcast
Society Situation Dance Band
69.07.02
through
69.08.20
Muhal Richard Abrams: Young at Heart, Wise in Time
Delmark 423 (LP); Delmark DE-423 (CD)
July 2, 1969 through August 20, 1969
Wise in Time [23:00]
[Composition, Muhal Richard Abrams]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax)
Muhal Richard Abrams (piano)
Leo Smith (fleugelhorn)
Lester Lashley (bass)
Thurman Barker (drums; percussion)
75.09.10
AIR: AIR Song
Why Not PA-7120 (LP)
India Navigation IN-1057 (LP)
September 10, 1975
P.S. Recording Studios, Chicago
Untitled Tango [12:08]
Great Body of the Riddle or Where were the Dodge Boys when my Clay started to slide [13:29]
Dance of the Beast [11:03]
AIR Song [12:17]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax-3; tenor sax-1; baritone sax-2; flute-4)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Steve McCall (drums)
76.05.22
Various Artists: Wildflowers 1
AIR
Douglas 7045 (LP)
[Also ]
Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions
Knitting Factory Knit Classics KCR-3037 (3CD) 1999
May 22, 1976
Wildflowers Festival
Studio Rivbea
New York City
USO Dance [8:26]
[Composition, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Steve McCall (drums)
76.07.01
AIR: Live AIR
Black Saint BSR 0034
July 1, 1976
Eulogy For Charles Clarke [10:37] *)
Portrait Of Leo Smith [8:06] *)
Keep Right On Playing Thru the Mirror Over the Water [15:30] **)
Be Ever Out [5:40] **)
*) Side A recorded July 1, 1976, at Studio Rivbea, New York. Clark's surname misspelt.
**) Side B recorded October 28, 1977, at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (tenor sax, alto sax, flute, percussion)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Steve McCall (drums, percussion)
76.07.15
AIR: AIR Raid
Why Not PA-7156 (LP)
July 15, 1976
Basement Studio
New York City
AIR Raid [11:55]
Midnight Sun [7:05]
Release [16:31]
Through a Keyhole Darkly [7:20]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (chinese musette-1; alto sax-1,2; flute-3; hubkaphone-3; tenor sax-4)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Steve McCall (drums)
76.09.08
Chico Freeman: Morning Prayer
Why Not PA-7155 (LP)
September 8, 1976
P.S. Recording Studios
Chicago, IL
Like the Kind of Peace it is [8:01]
The In Between [7:47]
Conversations [6:49]
Morning Prayer [12:50]
Pepe's Samba [9:58]
[All compositions, Chico Freeman]
Chico Freeman (tenor sax; soprano sax; flute; pan-pipe; percussion)
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; baritone sax; flute; percussion)
Muhal Richard Abrams (piano)
Cecil McBee (bass; cello)
Douglas Ewart (bass flute; bamboo flute; percussion-4)
Steve McCall (percussion)
Ben Montgomery (drums; percussion)
77.01.22
Roscoe Mitchell: Nonaah
Nessa 9/10
January 22, 1977
Stu Black Sound Studios
Chicago, IL
NONAAH [17:34]
[Composer, Roscoe Mitchell]
Roscoe Mitchell (alto saxophone)
Joseph Jarman (alto saxophone)
Wallace McMillan (alto saxophone)
Henry Threadgill (alto saxophone)
This album contains 9 selections with different groups, but
Threadgill appears only on this version of Noonah, side D track #2.
{Primary Source: Mark Meade & Frank Malczewski}
77.09.22
Anthony Braxton: NW5-9M4 (For Trio)
Arista 4181 (LP)
September 22, 1977
Streetville Sound Studios
Chicago, IL
Version 1 [20:22]
Version 1 [20:56]
Anthony Braxton (C flute; alto flute; soprano clarinet; Bb
clarinet; contra alto clarinet; contra bass clarinet; Eb soprano sax;
alto sax; contra bass sax; taragata; gongs; perc; little instruments /
Composition)
Henry Threadgill (flute; bass flute; alto sax; tenor sax; baritone sax;
clarinet; hub "t" wall; gongs; percussion; little instruments / track 1
only)
Douglas Ewart (piccolo; flute; soprano clarinet; Bb clarinet; bass
clarinet; Eb soprano sax; Bb soprano sax; alto sax; bassoon;
Ewartophone; gongs; percussion; little instruments / track 1 only)
Roscoe Mitchell (piccolo; flute; clarinet; soprano sax; alto sax; tenor
sax; baritone sax; bass sax; gongs; percussion; little instruments /
track 2 only)
Joseph Jarman (flute; clarinet; alto clarinet; bass clarinet; soprano
sax; alto sax; baritone sax; bass sax; vibraphone; gongs; percussion;
little instruments / track 2 only)
{Primary Source: info via Jeff Caltabiano}
77.11.17
77.11.18
AIR: AIR Time
Nessa N-12 (LP) 1978; Nessa NCD-12 (1996)
November 17 & 18, 1977
Streeterville Studios
Chicago, IL
I'll Be Right Here Waiting... (McCall) [2:29]
No. 2 (Threadgill) [11:46]
G.v.E. (Hopkins) [6:59]
Subtraction (Threadgill) [13:20]
Keep Right On Playing Thru the Mirror Over the Water (Threadgill) [9:04]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; tenor sax; flute; bass flute; hubkaphone)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Steve McCall (drums; percussion
77.11.01
through
77.12.31
Muhal Richard Abrams: 1-OQA+19
Black Saint BSR 0017 (LP); 120 017-2 (CD)
November through December, 1977
Generation Sound Studios
New York City
Charlie in the Parker [9:05]
Balladi [9:07]
Arhythm Songy [8:53]
Oqa [6:58]
Ritob [7:49]
[All compositions, Muhal Richard Abrams]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax, tenor sax, flute, voice)
Anthony Braxton (sopranino sax, alto sax, flute, clarinet, voice)
Muhal Richard Abrams (piano, synthesizer, voice)
Leonard Jones (bass, voice)
Steve McCall (drums, percussion, voice)
78.02.21
78.02.22
AIR: Open Air Suit
Arista/Novus 3002 (LP)
February 21 & 22, 1978
C.I. Recording Studios
New York City
Card Two: The Jick or Mandrill's Cosmic Ass [7:25]
Card Five: Open Air Suit [10:22]
Card Four: Strait White Royal Flush...78 [6:15]
Card One: Cutten {2 Knuckles + 2 Widows + 2 Tricks}/3 X1 [15:30]
Card Three: Trummps Room 201 Bed 3 [not released on this album]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; tenor sax; baritone sax; flute)
Fred Hopkins (bass; maracas; stick)
Steve McCall (drums; percussion)
According to the sleeve notes, one piece of the suit, "Card Three: Trummps Room 201 Bed 3"
(observe the spelling of trummps with two m!), was omitted due to the fact that
the lp couldn't contain one more tune. However, this tune should be forthcoming
on a future recording. I haven't seen that and if someone has more knowledge
about this, I should be very happy to be informed.
Is it perhaps too much to hope for that this excellently recorded, but highly underrated
album, could be reissued on CD with all five cards present? Now it's done, see
"Complete Novus/Columbia Recordings", though still without that extra track.
78.03.27 - 78.04.27
Frank Walton: Reality
Delmark DS 436 (LP)
Delmark 436 (CD)
March 27 - April 27, 1978
Safari (Crystal, Penson, Raisin) [6:03]
Spongie (Frank Walton) [8:15]
Waltz of the Prophets (Ari Brown) [7:29]
Shorter's Vibes (Ari Brown) [8:47]
Change of Mode (Frank Walton) [12:58]
Frank Walton (trumpet and flugelhorn)
Henry Threadgill (alto sax)
Ari Brown (tenor and soprano sax)
Jodie Christian (piano)
Rudolph Penson (bass)
Ben Montgomery (drums)
78.07.22
AIR: Montreux Suisse Air
Arista/Novus 3008 (LP)
July 22, 1978
Montreux Jazz Festival
Let's All Go Down To The Footwash (Threadgill) [11:12]
Abra (Threadgill) [12:50]
Suisse Air (Threadgill, Hopkins, McCall) [15:07]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; tenor sax; baritone sax; hubkaphone)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Steve McCall (drums; percussion)
78.07.27
Roscoe Mitchell: L-R-G/The Maze/S II Examples
Nessa 14/15 (LP)
July 27, 1978
Columbia Recording Studios
The Maze (Roscoe Mitchell) [21:40]
Roscoe Mitchell (perc)
Henry Threadgill (perc)
Antony Braxton (perc)
Joseph Jarman (perc)
Douglas Ewart (perc)
Malachi Favors (perc)
Thurman Barker (perc)
Don Moye (perc)
79.01.13
Henry Threadgill: X-75 Volume 1
Arista/Novus 3013 (LP)
January 13, 1979
CI Recording Studios
New York City
Sir Simpleton [6:26]
Celebration [13:21]
Air Song [10:21]
Fe Fi Fo Fum [13:00]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; bass flute; flute)
Douglas Ewart (bass clarinet; piccolo; flute)
Joseph Jarman (soprano sax; flute)
Wallace McMillan (piccolo; alto flute; tenor sax)
Amina Claudine Myers (vocal)
Leonard Jones (bass)
Brian Smith (piccolo bass; bass)
Rufus Reid (bass)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
79.05.11
79.05.12
AIR: AIR Lore
Arista/Novus 3014 (LP); RCA 6578-2-RB (CD)
May 11 & 12, 1979
C.I. Studios
New York City
The Ragtime Dance (Scott Joplin, arranged by Threadgill, Hopkins & McCall) [9:20]
Buddy Bolden's Blues (Jelly Roll Morton) [9:30]
King Porter Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton) [3:52]
Paille Street (Threadgill) [2:20]
Weeping Willow Rag (Scott Joplin, arranged by Threadgill, Hopkins & McCall) [11:31]
Henry Threadgill (tenor sax; alto sax; flute)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Steve McCall (drums; percussion)
Demonstrating not only that ragtime (Scott Joplin) and New Orleans (Jelly Roll Morton) are Great Art consonant
with Contemporary Jazz, but also that they're Corny. And that both Great Art and Corn can be fun. Which is why
the somewhat stiff, if not corny, readings of the themes, especially "King Porter Stomp," don't get in the way.
Although just what could get in the way of Henry Threadgill improvising over an explicit pulse for a whole album
I can't imagine. -Robert Christgau, Consumer Guide Reviews.
80.07.25
80.07.28
David Murray Octet: Ming
Black Saint BSR 0045 (LP) 1980
July 25 & 28, 1980
Right Track Recording Studios
New York City
The Fast Life [8:53]
The Hill [10:40]
Ming [4:24]
Jasvan [8:48]
Dewey's Circle [6:32]
[All compositions, David Murray]
David Murray (tenor sax; bass clarinet)
Henry Threadgill (alto sax)
Olu Dara (trumpet)
Lawrence "Butch" Morris (cornet)
George Lewis (trombone)
Anthony Davis (piano)
Wilber Morris (bass)
Steve McCall (percussion)
80.12.28
AIR: AIR Mail
Black Saint BSR 0049 (LP)
December 28, 1980
Right Track Studio
New York City
B.K. (McCall) [8:55]
R.B. (Hopkins) [8:19]
C.T., J.L. (Threadgill) [18:27]
Henry Threadgill (tenor sax; alto sax; flute; bass flute; hubkaphone)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Steve McCall (drums; bells)
81.00.00
Material: Memory Serves
Celluloid 529812; Celluloid 5007 (LP)
date?, 1981
OAO Studio
Brooklyn, New York
Memory Serves (Laswell, Beinhorn) [5:07]
Disappearing (Dara, Sharrock, Laswell, Beinhorn, Maher) [7:10]
Upriver (Bang, Laswell, Beinhorn, Maher) [5:24]
Metal Test (Frith, Laswell, Beinhorn, Maher) [4:30]
Conform To the Rhythm (Laswell, Beinhorn, Frith) [4:28]
Unauthorized (Sharrock, Laswell, Beinhorn, Maher) [3:49]
Square Dance (Frith, Laswell, Maher) [4:28]
Silent Land (Lewis, Laswell, Beinhorn) [3:50]
For a Few Dollars More (?) [4:22] *)
*) Only available on CD releases.
Sonny Sharrock (guitar)
Fred Frith (guitar; violin; vibes)
Henry Threadgill (alto sax solo on 2,6,7)
George Lewis (trombone)
Olu Dara (trumpet)
Billy Bang (violin)
Charles K. Noyes (drums; bells; percussion)
Bill Laswell (4; 6 and 8 string basses)
Michael Beinhorn (synth; tapes; radio; guitar; drums; voice)
Only the LP release, left photo, in my collection.
81.00.00
Various Artists (Muhal Richard Abrams): Amarcord Nino Rota
Interpretations Of Nino Rota's Music From The Films of Federico Fellini
Hannibal HNCD 9301 (CD) 1981
Date ?, 1981
The Hit Factory
New York City
[track "6b"] "Notturno" [2:50]
Sharon Freeman (french horns)
Muhal Richard Abrams (conductor)
Claudio Roditi (trumpet)
Emmet McDonald (trombone)
Henry Threadgill (flute)
Bobby Eldridge (baritone sax; clarinet)
Jay Hoggard (vibes)
Amina Claudine Myers (piano)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Warren Smith (drums)
{Primary Source: info via R. Lynn Rardin}
81.09.30
81.10.01
The Henry Threadgill Sextet: When Was That?
About Time AT-1004 (LP)
September 30 & October 1, 1981
Sound Ideas
New York City
Melin [3:38]
10 to 1 [11:25]
Just B [4:12]
When Was That? [10:19]
Soft Suicide at the Baths [11:06]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (flute; bass flute; clarinet; alto sax; tenor sax)
Craig Harris (trombone)
Olu Dara (cornet)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Brian Smith (piccolo bass)
Pheeroan akLaff (drums)
John Betsch (drums)
{Corrections made by Larry Shengold, About Time Records}
Only the LP release, left photo, in my collection.
81.10.31
81.11.01
David Murray Octet: Home
Black Saint BSR 0055 (LP)
October 31 & November 1, 1981
Right Track Recording Studio
New York City
Home [5:58]
Santa Barbara and Crenshaw Follies [7:30]
Blues Choctaw [6:80]
Last of the Hipmen [9:12]
3-D Family [8:35]
[All compositions, David Murray]
David Murray (tenor sax; bass clarinet)
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; bass flute)
Olu Dara (trumpet)
Lawrence "Butch" Morris (cornet)
George Lewis (trombone)
Anthony Davis (piano)
Wilber Morris (bass)
Steve McCall (percussion)
82.01.23
AIR: 80° Below '82
Antilles 1007 (LP)
January 23, 1982
Right Track Recording Studio
New York City
Chicago Breakdown (Jelly Roll Morton) [7:58]
The Traveller (Threadgill) [9:28]
80 ° Below '82 (Threadgill) [8:02]
Do Tell (Threadgill) [9:50]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Steve McCall (trap drums)
On my LP there is a discrepancy in that way that sides A and B are
switched between the sleeve and the record labels. The text on the
sleeve should be correct, with Chicago Breakdown and The Traveller
on side A, as far as I can understand.
82.07.14
82.07.15
82.07.19
David Murray Octet: Murray's Steps
Black Saint BSR 0065; 120065-1 (LP); 120065-2 (CD) 1983
July 14, 15, and 19, 1982
Barigozzi Studio
Milano, Italy
Murray's Steps [12:25]
Sweet Lovely [8:00]
Sing Song [9:40]
Flowers For Albert [9:40]
[All compositions, David Murray]
David Murray (tenor sax; bass clarinet)
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; flute)
Bobby Bradford (trumpet)
Lawrence "Butch" Morris (cornet)
Craig Harris (trombone)
Curtis Clark (piano)
Wilber Morris (bass)
Steve McCall (percussion)
83.03.22
83.03.23
The Henry Threadgill Sextet: Just The Facts And Pass The Bucket
About Time AT-1005 (LP)
March 22-23, 1983
Right Track Studios
New York
Gateway [9:05]
Cover [7:06]
Black Blues [4:27]
Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket [4:20]
Cremation [6:00]
A Man Called Trinity Deliverance [8:33]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (flute; clarinet; alto sax; baritone sax)
Olu Dara (cornet)
Craig Harris (trombone)
Diedre Murray (cello)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Pheeroan akLaff (percussion)
John Betsch (percussion)
{Corrections made by Larry Shengold, About Time Records}
83.07.00
NEW AIR: Live at Montreal International Jazz Festival
Black Saint BSR 0084 (LP) 1984 IT; 12084-1 (LP); 120084-2 (CD)
July ?, 1983
Montreal International Jazz Festival
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Sir Simpleton [11:02]
Difda Dance [12:53]
Roll On [4:56]
Tragedy On A Thursday Afternoon [8:32]
No. 1 [9:09]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; flute; baritone sax)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Pheeroan akLaff (percussion)
84.12.07
84.12.08
84.12.09
The Henry Threadgill Sextet: Subject to Change
About Time AT-1007 (LP)
December 7-9, 1984
Right Track Studios
New York
Just Trinity the Man [7:01]
Homeostasis (words by Emilio Cruz) [4:32]
Higher Places [7:34]
Subject to Change [10:53]
This [5:29]
A Piece of Software (lyrics by Cassandra Wilson) [5:29]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (flute; clarinet; alto sax; tenor sax)
Pheeroan akLaff (percussion; recitation-2)
John Betsch (percussion)
Rasul Siddik (trumpet)
Ray Anderson (trombone)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Diedre Murray (cello)
Amina Claudine Myers (vocal-6)
{Corrections made by Larry Shengold, About Time Records}
85.00.00
Various Artists: Lost In The Stars; The Music of Kurt Weill
A&M; Records 395 104-2 (CD)
Released 1985
Recorded at Mediasound Studio, N.Y.
Threadgill is only present on this one track:
The Great Hall (from "The Silver Lake") [3:38]
Henry Threadgill (arranger, conductor)
Lester Bowie (trumpet)
Stanton Davis (trumpet)
John Stubblefield (tenor sax)
Gregory Williams (french horn)
Vincent Chancey (french horn)
Tony Underwood (tuba)
Lloyd McNeill (piccolo flute)
Patmore Lewis (violin)
Wint Garvey (violin)
Akua Dixon (cello)
Diedre Murray (cello)
Cecil McBee (bass)
Thurman Barker drums)
{Primary Source: info via Enrico Romero}
86.06.02
86.06.03
NEW AIR: AIR Show No. 1
Black Saint BSR 0099 (LP)
June 2, 1986
Barigozzi Studio
Milano, Italy
Achtud El Buod (Children's Song) [6:28]
Don't Drink That Corner My Life Is In The Bush (lyrics by Wilson) [9:13]
Air Show [5:20]
Apricots on Their Wings [6:03]
Salute to the Enema Bandit [7:20]
Side Step [7:06]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; tenor sax; flute; eastern banjo)
Cassandra Wilson (vocal)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Pheeroan akLaff (percussion)
86.10.12
Henry Threadgill Sextett: You Know the Number
RCA/Novus 3013-1-N (LP)
October 12, 1986
Uptown Chelsea Sound
New York City
Bermuda Blues [9:26]
Silver and Gold Baby, Silver and Gold [5:45]
Theme from Thomas Cole [6:39]
Good Times [6:33]
To Be Announced [6:27]
Those Who Eat Cookies [6:16]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (bass flute; alto sax; tenor sax)
Rasul Siddik (trumpet)
Frank Lacy (trombone)
Diedre Murray (cello)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Pheeroan akLaff (percussion)
Reggie Nicholson (percussion)
87.00.00
Sly & Robbie: Rhythm Killers
Island 422-842 785; 258-318
Date ?, 1987
Venue ?
Place ?
Fire (J.Williams, C.Satchell, L.Bonner, M.Jones, R.Middlebrooks, M.Pierce, W.Beck) [5:25]
Boops (Here To Go) (Dunbar, Shakespear, Laswell, Shinehead, Collins) [5:16]
Let's Rock (Dunbar, Shakespear, Laswell, Collins, Berger) [7:25]
Yes, We Can Can (Allen Toussaint) [6:24]
Rhythm Killer (Dunbar, Shakespear, Laswell, Shinehead) [4:16]
Bank Job (Dunbar, Shakespear, Laswell, Collins, Berger, Rammellzee) [6:47]
Sly Dunbar (Simmons drums; percussion)
Robbie Shakespear (bass)
Bootsy Collins (vocal; guitar)
Gary "Mudbone" Cooper, Berhard Fowler, Shinehead, Rammellzee (vocals)
Nicky Skopelitis, Pat Thrall (guitar)
Bernie Worrell (prepared piano)
Karl Berger (vibes; melodica)
Henry Threadgill (saxophones; flutes)
D.S.T. (turntable)
Daniel Ponce (bata; bells)
Aiyb Dieng (congas; bells; percussion)
Material strings (arranged and conducted by Karl Berger)
Right picture: Material strings members.
87.05.00
Cassandra Wilson: Days Aweigh
Winter & Winter 919 012-2
Recorded and Released May 1987
Arrangements by Henry Threadgill.
87.09.20
Henry Threadgill Sextett: Easily Slip Into Another World
RCA/Novus 3025-1-N (LP)
RCA/Novus 3025-2-N11 (CD)
September 20, 1987
Mediasound Studio
New York City
I Can't Wait Till I Get Home (Olu Dara) [4:04]
Black Hands Bejewelled (Threadgill) [7:03]
Spotted Dick is Pudding (Threadgill) [8:51]
Let Me Look Down Your Throat or Say Ah (Threadgill) [7:11] *)
My Rock (Threadgill) [8:09]
Hall (Threadgill) [4:02]
Award the Squadtett (Threadgill) [6:59]
*) Only on CD
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; tenor sax; clarinet)
Rasul Siddick (trumpet)
Frank Lacy (trombone; french horn; flugelhorn)
Diedre Murray (cello)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Pheeroan akLaff (drums)
Reggie Nicholson (drums)
Aisha Putli [Asha Puthli] (vocal on 5)
88.12.00
Henry Threadgill Sextett: Rag, Bush and All
RCA/Novus 3052-1-N (LP)
December ?, 1988
Clinton Recording Studios
Place ?
Off the Rag [12:40]
The Devil is on the Loose and Dancin' witha Monkey [6:44]
Gift [5:44]
Sweet Holy Rag [13:20]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; bass flute)
Ted Daniel (trumpet; flugelhorn)
Bill Lowe (bass trombone)
Diedre Murray (cello)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Newman Baker (drums; percussion)
Reggie Nicholson (drums; percussion)
90.06.26
Flute Force Four: Flutistry
Black Saint 0164
Recording date: June 26, 1990
Release date: October 21, 1997
T.B.A (Threadgill) [5:39]
Intersection (Newton) [6:53]
Luap Nosebor (Threadgill) [9:04]
Hymn to Wright Reverend (Newton) [6:45]
Paseo Del Mar (Newton) [5:56]
Figwig (Newton / Threadgill) [9:56]
Pedro Eustache (flute; alto flute; bass flute; piccolo)
Melecio Magdaluyo (flute; alto flute)
James Newton (flute; alto flute; bass flute)
Henry Threadgill (flute; bass flute)
{Correction of date thanks to Bob Blumenthal}
90.11.19
90.11.20
90.11.21
Henry Threadgill / Very Very Circus: Spirit of Nuff...Nuff
Black Saint BSR 0134 (LP) IT; 120134-1 (LP); 120134-2 (CD)
November 19, 20, and 21, 1990
R.P.M. Studios
New York City
Hope A Hope A [7:40]
Unrealistic Love [10:39]
Drivin' You Slow and Crazy [10:29]
Bee Dee Aff [9:28]
First Church Of This [8:04]
Exacto [5:02]
In The Ring [6:48]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; flute)
Curtis Fowlkes (trombone)
Brandon Ross (electric guitar)
Masujaa (electric guitar)
Marcus Rojas (tuba)
Edwin Rodriguez (tuba)
Gene Lake (drums)
91.00.00
Bahia Black: Ritual Beating System
Axiom 314-510 856-2 (CD) 1992
Date ?, 1990
Sorcerer Sound
New York City
Retrato Calado (C. Brown) [2:02]
Capităo Do Asfalto (C. Brown) [5:05]
The Seven Powers (H. Hancock / W. Shorter / Olodum) [7:04]
Uma Viagem Del Baldes De Larry Wright (C. Brown / L. Wright) [3:30]
Olodum (Oludum) [3:26]
Guia Pro Congal (C. Brown) [5:20]
Gwagwa O De (H. Hancock / W. Shorter / Olodum) [8:08]
Follow Me (T. Walls) [4:22]
Nina In The Womb Of The Forest (C. Brown) [2:26]
Carlinhos Brown (guitar, percussion vocals)
Olodum is:
Antonio Luis Alves de Sousa (drums, leader)
Bartolomeu P. Nunes (drums)
Luiz C. S. Alves (drums)
José De Souza (drums)
Antonio Carlos S. Brito (drums)
Gilmario M. de Andrade (drums)
José Carlos Dos Santos (drums)
Luis C. Moreira (drums)
Edilson Da Silva Neiva (drums)
Luis C. M. Monteiro (drums)
Wayne Shorter (soprano saxophone)
Herbie Hancock (piano, prepared piano)
Bernie Worrell (Hammond B-3organ)
Henry Threadgill (flute)
Larry Wright (buckets)
David Chapman (buckets)
Tony "Funky Drummer" Walls (drums, metal)
{Primary Source: info via R. Lynn Rardin}
91.00.00
Material: The Third Power
Axiom 422-848 417-2
Date ?, 1991
Platinum Island Recording Studios
Greenpoint, B.C., Canada
Reality (Ranks, Laswell, Dunbar, Shakespeare) [5:15]
Playin' with Fire (Baby Bam & Mike G., Laswell, Collins, Dunbar, Shakespeare) [5:14]
Cosmic Slop (Clinton, Worrell) [5:15]
E-Pluribus-Unum (Nuriddin, Laswell, Dunbar, Shakespeare) [3:40]
Drive-By (Laswell, Dunbar, Shakespeare) [3:21]
Power of Soul (Black Chant) (Nuriddin, Laswell, Collins, Dunbar, Shakespeare) [5:24]
Mellow Mood (Bob Marley) [4:22]
Glory (Laswell, Collins, Dunbar, Shakespeare) [4:33]
Jungle Brothers, J.L. Nuriddin, Shabba Ranks, Gary "Mudbone" Cooper, Jenny Peters (vocals)
Bootsy Collins, Gary Shider (vocals; guitar)
Herbie Hancock (piano)
Bernie Worrell (piano; organ)
Jeff Bova (synth)
Henry Threadgill (flute)
Robbie Shakespeare (bass)
Nicky Skopelitis (guitar; fairlight)
Michael Hampton (guitar)
Aiyb Dieng (percussion)
Sly Dunbar (drums; drum programming)
Material strings arranged & conducted by Karl Berger
Brass section arranged and conducted by Henry Threadgill:
Olu Dara (cornet; african trumpet)
Joe Daly (baritone horn)
Richard Harper (euphonium)
Marcus Rojas (tuba)
Joel Brandon (whistling)
Horn section:
Fred Wesley (trombone)
Maceo Parker (alto sax)
Pee Wee Ellis (tenor sax)
91.05.04
Henry Threadgill / Very Very Circus: Live at Koncepts
Taylor Made Records TMR 10292-2 (CD)
May 4, 1991
Koncepts Cultural Gallery
Oakland, CA
Next [9:04]
Snakes Don't Do Suicide [7:39]
I Love You With An Asterisk [5:40]
Someplace [7:30]
Dangerously Slippy [6:51]
King Kong [6:09]
Breach Of Protocol [8:50]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; flute; baritone flute)
Mark Taylor (french horn)
Brandon Ross (electric and acoustic guitar)
Masujaa (electric and acoustic guitar)
Edwin Rodriguez (tuba)
Marcus Rojas (tuba)
Larry Bright (drums; percussion)
92.04.09
Leroy Jenkins: Themes & Improvisations on the Blues
CRI 663 (CD) 1993
April 9, 1992
Merkin Concert Hall
New York City
Themes & Improvisations on the Blues [18:31]
Panorama 1 [13:33]
Off Duty Dryad [13:04]
Monkey on the Dragon [15:31]
[All compositions, Leroy Jenkins]
Leroy Jenkins (violin)
Henry Threadgill (flute-2,4)
Don Byron (clarinet-2,4)
Marty Ehrlich (bass clarinet-2,4)
Vincent Chancey (French horn-2,4)
Janet Grice (bassoon-4)
Frank Gordon (trumpet-4)
Jeff Hoyer (trombone-4)
Thurman Barker (traps-4)
Myra Melford (piano-4)
David Soldier (violin-1,3)
Laura Seaton (violin-1,3)
Jane Henry (violin-4)
Ron Lawrence (viola-1,3,4)
Mary Wooton (cello-1,3)
Lindsey Horner (bass-3,4)
Tania Leon (conductor-4)
{Primary Source: info via Jeff Caltabiano}
92.05.00
Kip Hanrahan/Paul Haines: Darn It!
American Clave 1014/18
May, 1992
Sorcerer Sound Studio, New York
Henry Threadgill is only present on this track:
Les paramédicaux érotiques (Paul Haines, Kip Hanrahan, Peter Scherer)
Henry Threadgill (alto sax)
Silvana Deluigi (voice)
Peter Scherer (piano, keyboards)
J.T. Lewis (drums)
{Primary Source: info via René Wezel}
92.11.12
Various Artists: Hal Willner Presents Weird Nightmare Meditations on Mingus
Columbia CK 52739 (CD) 1993
November 12, 1992
Mastersound Studios
Astoria, NY
Meditations On Integration
Weird Nightmare
Weird Nightmare (Reprise)
[All compositions, Charles Mingus]
Michael Blair (marimba eroica-1; drums-1; flapper-1; cloud chamber bowls-2,3)
Art Baron (tuba-1; great bass recorder-2,3; trombone-2,3)
Greg Cohen (bass)
Don Alias (cymbals-1; percussion-1; bass marimba-2,3)
Henry Threadgill (flute)
Marc Ribot (banjo-1; marimba eroica-2,3)
Bill Frisell (guitar)
Francis Thumm (harmonic canon-1; chromelodeon II-2,3)
Elvis Costello (vocal-1,2; harmonic canon-2,3)
{Primary Source: info via R. Lynn Rardin}
93.00.00
Henry Threadgill / Very Very Circus: Too Much Sugar for a Dime
Axiom 314-514 258 (CD) 1993
Date ?, 1993
Sorcerer Sound
Mew York City
Little Pocket Size Demons [10:49]
In Touch [8:49]
Paper Toilet [5:39]
Better Wrapped / Better Unrapped [13:05]
Too Much Sugar [2:58]
Try Some Ammonia [12:23]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Very Very Circus:
Henry Threadgill (alto sax)
Mark Taylor (french horn)
Brandon Ross (electric guitar; acoustic guitar-5)
Masujaa (electric guitar)
Edwin Rodriguez (tuba)
Marcus Rojas (tuba)
Gene Lake (drums-1,2,3,4,6)
Guest artists:
Dorian L. Parreott II (tuba-2,4)
Larry Bright (drums-2,4)
Leroy Jenkins (violin-2,4)
Jason Hwang (violin-2,4)
Simon Shaheen (violin and oud-2,4)
Johnny Rudas (culo e puya and fulia-2,4)
Miguel Urvina (culo e puya and fulia-2,4)
Mossa Bildner (vocals-2)
Arenae (vocals-2)
Miguel Urvina (culo e puya-5)
Larry Bright (cymbals-5)
Dorian L. Parreot II (tuba-6)
VIDEO
93.00.01
Julian Schnabel: Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud
Axiom 314-524 111
Recorded in NYC 1993 CD Release 1995
Arrangements of String and Brass by Henry Threadgill.
{Primary Source: info via Giuseppe Vigna}
93.01.23
93.01.24
93.01.25
Billy Bang / Craig Harris / Henry Threadgill: Hip Hop Be Bop
ITM 1480
January 23, 24 & 25, 1993
Venue ?
Place ?
Hip Hop Be Bop (Billy Bang, words by Wayne Providence) [3:36]
Riding with Ra (Billy Bang) [3:58]
Night Stick (Joey Eboli, words by Alphonzo Stanley) [3:32]
If You Like It, Lick It (Billy Bang, words by Wayne Providence) [4:51]
Breeze (Joey Eboli, words by Alphonzo Stanley) [3:06]
Shine (Billy Bang, words: Traditional) [5:10]
M'am (Billy Bang, words adapted from "Thank You M'am" by Langston Hughes) [5:10]
Breezy Dub (Joey Eboli) [3:04]
Billy Bang (music)
Joey Eboli (music and arrangements)
Michael Maloy (arrangements)
Henry Threadgill (alto sax)
Craig Harris (trombone)
Brett Allen (guitar)
Wayne Providence (voice)
Prince Dominique (voice)
{Primary Source: Jeff Caltabiano}
93.08.17
93.08.18
93.08.19
Henry Threadgill: Song Out of My Trees
Black Saint BSR 0154
August 17, 18, & 19, 1993
Venue ?
Place ?
Gateway [9:24]
Over the River Club [9:24]
Grief [10:11]
Crea [8:47]
Song Out Of My Trees [8:15]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax-1,3,5)
Ted Daniel (trumpet-1,4)
Brandon Ross (guitar-1; alto guitar-4)
Jerome Richardson (acoustic bass guitar-1; bass guitar-2,4)
James Emery (soprano guitar-2,4)
Ed Cherry (guitar-2,4,5)
Myra Melford (piano-2)
Tony Cedras (accordion-3)
Amina Claudine Myers (harpsicord-3; organ-5)
Diedre Murray, Michelle Kinney (cello-3)
Gene Lake (drums-1)
Reggie Nicholson (drums-5)
94.00.00
Sola: Blues in the East
Axiom 314-524 003-2 (CD) 1994
Date ?, 1994
Greenpoint Studio
Brooklyn, NY
The Broken Zither:
Introduction [2:01]
Boya's Adventures [3:50] *
Meeting With The Woodcutter Ziqi [6:35] *
A Discourse On The Zither [7:24] *
The Appointment With Ziqi [10:52]
Boya's Lament [6:54] *
Breaking The Zither [6:18] *
Married To Exile (A Story of Wang, Zhaojun)
Beyond The Great Wall [4:09]
The Goose [4:31]
Looking Back [3:56]
The Nation's Boundaries [3:56]
Oh Mother [3:37]
[Music and words composed by Liu Sola, except tracks marked *, words composed
by Liu Sola and Umar Bin Hassan.]
Liu Sola (lead and background vocals)
Amina Claudine Myers (Hammond B-3 organ, piano and vocals)
Wu Man (pipa)
Umar Bin Hassan (storyteller)
James Blood Ulmer (guitar)
Jason Hwang (violin)
Henry Threadgill (saxophone)
Ralph Samuelson (shakuhachi)
Ned Rothenberg (shakuhachi and woodwinds)
Fernando Saunders (bass)
Jerome Brailey (drums)
Yukio Tsuji (Japanese percussion)
Aiyb Dieng (African percussion)
{Primary Source: info via R. Lynn Rardin}
94.07.00
through
96.06.00
Kip Hanrahan: A Thousand Nights and a Night (Shadow Night - 1)
american clavé amcl 1042 (CD)
July, 1994 through June, 1996
Venue ?
Place ?
2. Shaharazade and the Closing of the First Shadow Night (Hanrahan, Ross, Cain, Threadgill) [3:35]
Jennifer Resnick (vocal)
Brandon Ross (guitar)
Michael Cain (piano)
Henry Threadgill (alto sax)
95.00.00
Henry Threadgill / Very Very Circus Plus: Carry the Day
Columbia 66995 (CD) 1995
[Also:]
Various Artists: Jazziz On Disc, June 1995 *
Jazziz Magazine, (Magazine & CD) 1995
Date ?, 1995
Come Carry the Day [6:06] *
Growing a Big Banana [3:26]
Vivjanrondirkski [5:55]
Between Orchids Lillies Blind Eyes and Crickets [7:45]
Hyla Crucifer... Silence of [6:09]
Jenkins Boys Again, Wish Somebody Die, It's Hot [7:39]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Very Very Circus
Henry Threadgill (alto sax, baritone flute,flute)
Mark Taylor (french horn)
Brandon Ross (electric and soprano guitars)
Masujaa (electric guitar)
Edwin Rodriguez (tuba)
Marcus Rojas (tuba)
Gene Lake (drums)
Plus
Wu Man (pipa-1,3,5)
Tony Cedras (accordian-1,3,5)
Jason Hwang (violin-1,3,5)
Johnny Rudas (percussion and vocals-1,3,5)
Miguel Urbina (percussion and vocals-1,3,5)
Sentienla Toy (vocals-3,5)
Mossa Bildner (vocals-5)
95.06.00
Henry Threadgill: Makin' a Move
Columbia 67214 (CD)
June ?, 1995
Noisy Flowers [6:42]
Like It Feels [11:16]
Official Silence [8:54]
Refined Poverty [9:04]
Make Hot and Give [7:56]
The Mockinbird Sin [12:13]
Dirty in the Right Places [8:10]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Very Very Circus:
Henry Threadgill (alto sax-2,3,4,5,7)
Mark Taylor (french horn-2,3,5,7)
Brandon Ross, Ed Cherry (electric guitar-2,3,5,7)
Edwin Rodriguez, Marcus Rojas (tuba-2,3,5,7)
Pheeroan akLaff (drums-2,3,5,7)
Myra Melford (piano-1)
Brandon Ross (nylon string soprano guitar-1,6)
James Emery (steel string soprano guitar-1,6)
Ed Cherry (steel string acoustic guitar-1,6)
Ayodele Aubert (classical guitar-1,6)
Michelle Kinney (cello-4,6)
Diedre Murray (cello-4,6)
Akura Tourre (cello-4,6)
96.02.27
Abiodun Oyewole: 25 Years
Rykodisc 10335
February 27, 1996
Arrangements of Guitar and Horn by Henry Threadgill.
96.08.00
Henry Threadgill & Make a Move: Where's Your Cup?
Columbia 67617 (CD)
[Also:]
Various Artists: Jazziz On Disc, January 2000 Limited Edition *
Jazziz Magazine, Millenium Issue, (Magazine & CD) 2000
August ?, 1996
East Side Sound
New York City
100 Year Old Game [10:54]
Laughing Club [5:00] *
Where's Your Cup? [11:14]
And This [13:40]
Feels Like It [6:39]
The Flew [9:50]
Go To Far [8:56]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; flute)
Brandon Ross (electric and classical guitar)
Tony Cedras (accordian; harmonium)
Stomu Takeishi (5-string fretless bass)
J.T. Lewis (drums)
97.00.00 - 01.00.00
Jean-Paul Bourelly: Trans Atlantic - Boom Bop II
Double Moon Records (Germany)
1997-2001
Power Play/Planet Sound
New York City
Awakening
The Spirit Wheel
Cool Papa N'Diaye
Fatima
Blowin' Omni
Pluto Lounge
Thierno de Conakry
The Scent of The Healer
Harmofunkalodica
Trance Atlantic
Myth and Diffusion
Traffic
Freedom Delta
[All compositions, Carl and Jean-Paul Bourelly]
Carl Bourelly (keyboards and programming)
Jean-Paul Bourelly (guitars and sonic treatment)
Olu Dara (cornet)
Joseph Bowie (trombone)
Will Calhoun (drums, Korg Wave Drum)
Dennis Chambers (drums)
Abdourahmane Diop (vocals)
Melvin Gibbs (electric bass)
Vincent Henry (alto and tenor saxophone)
Orbert "Big Royale" Talamachus (contra boom bass)
Henry Threadgill (alto saxophone, flute)
Reggie Workman (acoustic bass)
Henry Threadgill is present on tracks 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7.
{Primary Source: info via René Wezel}
98.00.00
Douglas Ewart and Inventions Clarinet Choir: Angles Of Entrance
Arawak AA 004 (CD) 1998
Date ?, 1998
Venue ?
Atlanta, GA *
* track 6 live at Merkin Hall, New York City
Protusions [8:17]
Migration of Whales [4:44]
One Love [10:19]
Red Hills [8:37]
Angels of Entrance [7:20]
Ewartology [11:54]
[All compositions, Douglas Ewart]
Douglas Ewart (B Flat Bass Clarinet-1,2,4; E Flat Alto Clarinet-3;
Gong-3; B Flat Contra Bass Clarinet-4; B Natural Ewartophone-6)
Malachi Favors Maghostut (Double Bass; Thunder Sheet-3,6)
Mwata Bowden (B Flat Bass Clarinet-1,2; B Flat Contra Bass Clarinet-3;
E Flat Sopranino Clarinet-4,6)
Anthony Braxton (B Flat Contra Bass Clarinet-1,2,4; E Flat Sopranino
Clarinet-3)
J.D. Parran (E Flat Contra Alto Clarinet-1,2,3,4; E Flat Alto
Clarinet-6)
Roscoe Mitchell (B Flat Bass Clarinet, with extended lower range-1; B
Flat Bass Clarinet-2; B Flat Soprano Clarinet-3,4)
Henry Threadgill (B Flat Soprano Clarinet)
Edward Wilkerson, Jr. (B Flat Soprano Clarinet-1,3,6; E Flat Alto Clarinet-2,4)
Don Byron (B Flat Soprano Clarinet-6; B Flat Bass Clarinet-6)
{Primary Source: info via Jeff Caltabiano; Following other sources I have completed the list with track 5, "Angels of Entrance"}
99.07.00
Jean-Paul Bourelly: Boom Bop
Jazz Magnet / PAO Records JAM-2005 (CD) AUSTRIA
June, 1999
Dackle Inc. Studios
New York City
Silent Rain [7:35]
Kinetic Threadness [7:01]
[All compositions, Jean-Paul Bourelly]
Jean-Paul Bourelly (electric andacoustic guitar; vocals; effects)
Abdourahmane Diop (drums; vocals)
Henry Threadgill (alto sax)
Reggie Washington (bass-2)
Orbert "Big Royale" Talamachus (filtered boom bass)
Samba Sock (boograboo-2)
{Primary Source: info via Carl Morano}
01.02.25
01.02.26
01.02.27
Henry Threadgill & Make a Move: Everybodys Mouth's a Book
Pi Recordings 01 (CD)
Feb 25, 26, 27, 2001
Orange Music Sound Studio
West Orange, NJ
Platinum Inside Straight [7:10]
Don't Turn Around [7:32]
Biggest Crumb [4:42]
Burnt Til Recognition [7:35]
Where Coconuts Fall [6:32]
Pink Water Pink Airplane [3:42]
Shake It Off [5:07]
What To Do, What To Do [8:08]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax + flute)
Bryan Carrott (vibraphone + marimba)
Brandon Ross (electric + acoustic guitar)
Stomu Takeishi (electrical bass + acoustic bass guitar)
Dafnis Prieto (drums)
01.04.28
01.04.29
01.04.30
Henry Threadgill's Zooid: Up Popped The Two Lips
Pi Recordings 02 (CD)
April 28, 29, 30, 2001
Orange Music Sound Studio
West Orange, NJ
Tickled Pink [6:54]
Dark Black [5:26]
Look [4:54]
Around My Goose [8:00]
Calm Down [5:35]
Did You See That [7:43]
Do The Needful [6:53]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax + flute)
Liberty Ellman (acoustic guitar)
Tarik Benbrahim (oud)
José Davila (tuba)
Dana Leong (cello)
Dafnis Prieto (drums)
01.07.10
Ejigayehu "Gigi" Shibabaw: Gigi
Palm Pictures 2068
Original release date: July 10, 2001
A highly rated album, where Ethiopian vocalist "Gigi" sings African songs, backed by a huge ensemble, including Henry
Threadgill on alto saxophone and flute.
02.03.00
Lucky Peterson: Black Midnight Sun
Dreyfus Records (France)KOC166432(CD)
Recorded March-April, 2002
Released May 6, 2003
Herbert Harper's Free Press News
Lucky In Love
Is It Because I'm Black
Jody's Got Your Girl And Gone
Smokestack Lightning
Black Midnight Sun
She's A Burgler
Truly Your Friend
Talkin' Loud And Sayin' Nothing
Change Your Ways
Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa
Lucky Peterson (vocals, guitar, electric piano, organ, syntesizer)
Henry Threadgill (arranger, flute, horns)
Alex J. Harding (baritone saxophone)
Graham Haynes (cornet)
Jesse Dulman (tuba)
Bill Laswell (bass)
Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey (drums)
{Primary Source: info via Greg Campbell}
03.09.12
Henry Threadgill's Zooid: Pop Start the Tape, StoP
Hardedge 001 (LP)
September 12, 2003
Recorded at Engine 27
New York City
Numbered, limited edition of 1000 (vinyl)
Pop Start the Tape, StoP [42:17]
[Composition and arrangements, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (flute, bass flute, hubkaphone)
Liberty Ellman (acoustic guitar)
Tarik Benbrahim (oud)
Dana Leong (cello)
José Davila (tuba)
Elliot Humberto Kavee (drums)
04.05.18
04.05.19
Billy Bang: Vietnam:Reflections
Justin Time JUST 212-2 (CD)
Recorded May 18, 19, 2004
Released May 10, 2005
Reflections [11:49]
Ru Con [3:23]
Lock and Load [12:36]
Ly Ngua O [2:20]
Doi Moi [9:21]
Reconciliation [8:23]
Waltz of the Water Puppets [6:48]
Trong Com [2:29]
Reconciliation 2 [12:52]
["Ru Con", "Ly Ngua O" and "Trong Com" are Traditionals, all other composed by Billy Bang]
Billy Bang (violin, bandleader and composer)
Lawrence "Butch" Morris (cornet and conductor)
Ron Brown (percussion)
Ted Daniel (trumpet)
Henry Threadgill (alto sax + flute)
James Spaulding (alto sax + flute)
Co Boi Nguyen (vocals)
Nnan Thanh Ngo (dan tranh)
John Hicks (piano)
Curtis Lundy (bass)
Michael Carvin (drums)
{Primary Source: info via Christopher Carville}
06.05.08
Dafnis Prieto: Absolute Quintet
Zoho Music
Release date: May 8, 2006
Henry Threadgill: alto saxophone on track 4, Afrotango
{Primary Source: info via Greg Campbell & Mike Wilkens}
08.11.00
Henry Threadgill Zooid: this brings us to, volume 1
Pi Recordings 31 (CD)
November 2008
Recorded at Brooklyn Recording
Brooklyn, NY
Released October, 2009
White Wednesday off the wall [4:57]
To undertake my corners open [8:40]
Chairmaster [7:42]
After some time [8:40]
Sap [4:57]
Mirror mirror the verb [3:20]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (flute, alto saxophone)
Liberty Ellman (guitar)
José Davila (trombone, tuba)
Stomu Takeishi (bass guitar)
Elliot Humberto Kavee (drums)
08.11.01
Henry Threadgill Zooid: this brings us to, volume 2
Pi Recordings 36 (CD)
November 2008
Recorded at Brooklyn Recording
Brooklyn, NY
Released October, 2010
Lying Eyes [10:03]
This Brings Us To [6:32]
Extremely Sweet William [8:08]
Polymorph [11:32]
It Never Moved [7:15]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (flute, alto saxophone)
Liberty Ellman (guitar)
José Davila (trombone, tuba)
Stomu Takeishi (bass guitar)
Elliot Humberto Kavee (drums)
10.03.12
Henry Threadgill: Complete Remastered Black Saint Recordings
CAM Jazz BXS 1003 (7 CDs Box Set)
Released March 12, 2010
Live AIR
AIR Mail
NEW AIR: Live At Montreal International Jazz Festival
NEW AIR: AIR Show No 1
Very Very Circus: Spirit Of Nuff...Nuff
Henry Threadgill: Song Out Of My Trees
Flute Force Four: Flutistry
Track Listing .
10.10.00
Henry Threadgill: Complete Novus/Columbia Recordings (#247)
Mosaic Records Limited Edition Box Set (8 CDs), 5000 copies
Release October 2010
Track Listing, Personnel & Recording Dates .
Titles from the previously unissued record, "X75, Volume 2" are:
Luap Nosebor [11:34]
Salute to the Enema Bandit [10:21]
Melin [6:29]
Same personell as on "X75, Volume 1" but without Amina Claudine Myers, voice.
Personally I object to the word "complete" as, according to the sleeve notes of the original album "Open Air Suit",
one piece, "Card Three: Trummps Room 201 Bed 3" (observe the spelling of trummps with two m!), was omitted from that
record due to the fact that the lp couldn't contain one more tune. Nor has it been issued later. Consequently,
it should have been issued in this release.
11.12.03
11.12.04
Henry Threadgill Zooid: Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp
Pi Recordings 43 (CD)
December 03-04, 2011
Recorded at Brooklyn Recording
Brooklyn, NY
Released June 2012
A Day Off [5:50]
Tomorrow Sunny [6:30]
So Pleased, No Clue [3:34]
See the Blackbird Now [9:27]
Ambient Pressure Thereby [10:34]
Put On Keep / Frontispiece, Spp [6:25]
Recording Information read by Kate Chumley [1:44]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax + flute)
Liberty Ellman (guitar)
Stomu Takeishi (acoustic bass guitar)
José Davila (trombone, tuba)
Christopher Hoffman (cello)
Elliot Humberto Kavee (drums)
12.12.20
Wadada Leo Smith: The Great Lakes Suites
TUM CD 041-2
Recorded December 20, 2012
Released September 16, 2014
Recorded at Avatar Studios, New York, NY December 20, 2012.
Mixed by Robert Musso (engineer).
CD-1
Lake Michigan [21:54]
Lake Ontario [9:12]
Lake Superior [10:40]
CD-2
Lake Huron [17:23]
Lake Erie [17:32]
Lake St. Clair [13:40]
Lake St. Clair is dedicated not only to a smaller lake in
the same region, but also to alto saxophonist Oliver Lake.
All compositions by Wadada Leo Smith.
Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet)
Henry Threadgill (alto saxophone, flute, bass flute)
John Lindberg (double bass)
Jack DeJohnette (drums)
13.08.29
Jack DeJohnette: Made in Chicago
ECM Records 2392 (CD)
Recorded August 29, 2013
Released January 24, 2015
Recorded live at Chicago’s Millenium Park during the Chicago Jazz Festival 2013.
Mixed by Manfred Eicher, Jack DeJohnette and James A. Farber (engineer) at Avatar Studio, New York.
Issued as the AACM begins its 50th anniversary year.
Chant (Mitchell) [16:56]
Jack 5 (Abrams) [14:53]
This (Mitchell) [12:13]
Museum of Time (DeJohnette) [13:37]
Leave Don’t Go Away (Threadgill) [10:19]
Announcement [3:28]
Ten Minutes (collective) [6:09]
Henry Threadgill (alto saxophone, bass flute)
Roscoe Mitchell (alto, soprano and sopranino saxophones, bass recorder, baroque flute)
Muhal Richard Abrams (piano)
Larry Gray (double bass, cello)
Jack DeJohnette (drums)
14.12.08
14.12.09
Henry Threadgill Zooid: In for a Penny, In for a Pound
Pi Recordings 58 (CD)
Recorded December 08-09, 2014
at Systems Two in Brooklyn, NY
Released May 2015
In for a Penny, In for a Pound [4:36]
Ceroepic (for drums and percussion) [19:38]
Dosepic (for cello) [16:00]
Off the Prompt Box (Exordium) [3:36]
Tresepic (for trombone and tuba) [17:26]
Unoepic (for guitar) [17:57]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
[Liner notes, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto saxophone, flute, bass flute)
Liberty Ellman (guitar)
José Davila (trombone, tuba)
Christopher Hoffman (cello)
Elliot Humberto Kavee (drums, percussion)
15.05.22
Henry Threadgill Ensemble Double-Up: Old Locks and Irregular Verbs
Pi Recordings 64 (CD)
Old Locks was commissioned by and premiered at New Yorks Winter Jazz Fest in January 2014
Recorded May 22 2015
Released April 01 2016
Track List:
Part One [19:15]
Part Two [3:54]
Part Three [16:38]
Part Four [7:14]
Henry Threadgill (composer, conductor)
Jason Moran (piano)
David Virelles (piano)
Roman Filiu (alto saxophone)
Curtis Macdonald (alto saxophone)
Christopher Hoffman (cello)
José Davila (tuba)
Craig Weinrib (drums)
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Selected broadcasts and private recordings
78.00.00
Muhal Richard Abrams in Laren
Radio Broadcast
Early 1978
Laren
Holland
Charlie in the Parker / Arhythm Songy [1:06:38]
[Composer, Muhal Richard Abrams]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; flute)
George Lewis (trombone)
Muhal Richard Abrams (piano)
Leonard Jones (bass)
Steve McCall (drums)
79.06.17
AIR in Lovere
June 17, 1979
Recorded live in Lovere, Italy.
Soundboard recording.
Through a Keyhole Darkly (Threadgill) [11:45]
Dance of the Beast (Threadgill) [10:15]
G.v.E (Hopkins) [13:45]
Keep Right on Playing Thru the Mirror Over the Water (Threadgill) [11:40]
Midnight Sun (Threadgill) [06:10]
1-4 were performed as a suite and 5 an encore (times are approximate, incl. applauses and announcement after 4).
Henry Threadgill (tenor sax (1,4), alto sax (2,5) and bass flute (3))
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Steve McCall (drums)
{Primary Source: info via William Ellenberg}
79.06.27
AIR - Live in Pisa '79
June 27, 1979
Recorded live in Pisa, Italy.
Mics recording.
Eulogy for Charles Clarke?/Portrait of Leo Smith [14:36]
Somebody Got the Wrong Shoes (for Rafael Garrett) [13:22]
Sir Simpleton [12:37]
Untitled Tango [16:09]
Open Air Suit [05:56]
All compositions by Henry Threadgill.
Track 1 is in 2 parts, the first supposedly with unidentified title, but my humble
guess is that it's a version of "Eulogy for Charles Clarke" with Henry playing
alto sax instead of flute. Track 5 was performed as an encore. This was the last
concert of a 4 month long European tour, which made it very special and filled
with much joyful playing.
Henry Threadgill (1 as,fl; 2,4 ts; 3,5 as)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Steve McCall (drums)
{Primary Source: info via Greg Campbell} {The title of the second tune thanks to Jeff Lackie, a disciple of Steve McCall}
80.11.00
Julius Hemphill Big Band, The Public Theatre, NYC
Private recording
November, 1980
Recorded live at The Public Theatre
New York City
The Hard Blues [16:47]
For Billie [8:51]
Open Air [2:23]
Border Town [11:56]
All Harmony [15:07]
Unidentified Title [2:43] (n.c.)
Julius Hemphill (reeds,composer,conductor)
Stan Strickland (reeds)
John Purcell (reeds)
Marty Ehrlich (reeds)
Henry Threadgill (reeds)
Baikida Carroll (brasses)
John Clarice (brasses)
Charles Stephens (brasses)
Erritt McDonald (brasses)
Ed Schuller (bass)
Warren Smith (marimba)
Pheeroan akLaff (drums)
{Primary Source: info via Holger Neuhaus}
81.07.04
Henry Threadgill Sextet, Jazzmania, NYC
Private recording
July 04, 1981
Jazzmania Society
New York City
Unidentified Title [38:27]
Melin [21:04]
Soft Suicide at the Baths [9:34]
Cremation [14:40] (n.c.)
[Compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax, tenor sax)
Lester Bowie (trumpet)
Craig Harris (trombone)
Muneer Abdul Fataah (cello)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
John Betsch (drums)
Honour to the one who saved this important performance for future listening.
As I know, it is the one and only occasion where you can hear Lester Bowie
and Muneer Abdul Fataah in a Threadgill group. This combo has also a different
sound compared with the other sextet recordings. A performance filled with rough,
adventurous playing, wild and heavy swing, combined with a lot of free collective
improvising, especially in the closing tune. Joyful playing and listening.
{Primary Source: info via Andrea Gaggero}
82.03.20
AIR & Amiri Baraka
WDR Radio Broadcast
March 20, 1982
A-FM CDR
Köln, Germany
Zoodoo (Dead Things) [4:34]
Bad News [4:18]
I Love Music (for John Coltrane) [3:53]
Against Bourgeois Art [6:03]
Afro-American Lyric [5:39]
Wailers (for Larry Neal & Bob Marley) [5:07]
Am/Trak (for John Coltrane) [10:22]
Class Struggle in Music 1 [5:32]
Class Struggle in Music 2 [5:58]
Announcement by Amiri Baraka [0:30]
[Poems by Amiri Baraka]
Amiri Baraka /LeRoi Jones (recitation)
Henry Threadgill (alto sax and flute)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Steve McCall (drums)
Amiri Baraka's forceful voice blends excellently with AIR's music,
Threadgill improvising relaxed and freely around his own tunes, as in
Good Times. In Am/Trak is Coltrane's Equinox woven around Monk's
Epistrophy. He also nods at Diz & Bird (in Class Struggle In Music 2)
with Groovin' High, following the spoken word.
{Primary Source: info via Greg Campbell}
AIR poster for this program.
The above photo of Henry also decorates the front page of the September, 1983, issue of "Jazz Times".
VIDEO
82.04.02
AIR in Salzburg
Concert recording
April 02, 1982
Jazz im Theater-Elisabethbühne,
Salzburg, Austria.
Subtraction (Threadgill) [9:00]
R.B. (Hopkins) [11:30]
Do Tell (Threadgill) [29:46]
Unidentified title [9:41]
Dedicated to Jimmy Garrison (Hopkins) [6:47]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax (3), tenor sax (2,4) and flute (1))
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Steve McCall (drums)
"Dedicated to Jimmy Garrison" is an unaccompanied bass solo.
{Primary Source: info via Greg Campbell}
82.06.29
Henry Threadgill Sextet at Kool Jazz Festival, NYC
Radio Broadcast
June 29, 1982
Kool Jazz Festival
NYC
Announcement by Ben Sidran [0:47]
Fanfare and Ceremony [22:17]
Announcement by Ben Sidran [0:33]
The composition "Fanfare and Ceremony" is built in two parts,
first the fanfare starts with drums followed by Olu Dara's cornet and Craig Harris' trombone, the band continuing with the "Cremation" theme, then passing over into the second part, the 13:45 minutes long "When Was That".
[Compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax)
Olu Dara (cornet)
Craig Harris (trombone)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Brian Smith (bass)
John Betsch (drums)
Pheeroan akLaff (drums)
{Primary Source: info via Greg Campbell}
85.00.01
Henry Threadgill and Cassandra Wilson with John Hicks' trio
Concert broadcast
1985
Blue in Green (Miles Davis) [8:00]
Through a Keyhole Darkly (Threadgill) [8:00]
Sweet Lorraine (Cliff Burwell and Mitchell Parish) [5:45]
Straight Up and Fly Right (Nat "King" Cole and Irving Mills) [9:00]
All Blues (Miles Davis) [8:20]
I've got that old feeling (Alison Krauss) [8:25]
Unidentified rag (Threadgill) [13:00] *)
Henry Threadgill (alto sax, 1-2,4-7)
Cassandra Wilson (vocal, 1,3-6)
John Hicks (piano)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Idris Muhammad (drums)
This list starts at Threadgill's entering and ends with his last appearance.
Times are rounded including applauses. A rare occasion to hear Henry playing on some standards and two Miles Davis tunes.
*) The same tune was performed by NEW AIR in Rankweil. Henry soloing:
or:
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try this .
{Primary Source: info via Andy Stone}
85.02.02
The Henry Threadgill Windstring Ensemble: "Imaginary Film & Radio Show"
Private Recording
February 02 1985
The Alternative Museum
New York
Tunin' Up [0:38]
When Life Is Cheap And Taken For Granite, part 1 [13:11]
When Life Is Cheap And Taken For Granite, part 2 [10:09]
When Life Is Cheap And Taken For Granite, part 3 [8:09]
When Life Is Cheap And Taken For Granite, part 4 [5:20]
When Life Is Cheap And Taken For Granite, part 5 [5:22]
Bed Ghosts..., or I'll Be All Over You Like A Cheap Suit, part 1 [5:35]
Bed Ghosts..., or I'll Be All Over You Like A Cheap Suit, part 2 [12:05]
Bed Ghosts..., or I'll Be All Over You Like A Cheap Suit, part 3 [8:58]
Bed Ghosts..., or I'll Be All Over You Like A Cheap Suit, part 4 [6:24]
Bed Ghosts..., or I'll Be All Over You Like A Cheap Suit, part 5 [3:53]
[All Compositions by Henry Threadgill,
Synopsis by Ilyse Kazar,
Imaginary Libretto by Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax)
Tony Underwood (tuba)
Patmore Lewis (violin)
Leroy Jenkins (viola)
Akua Dixon Turre (cello)
Jean-Paul Bourelly (guest artist on guitar)
Poster, connected to this program.
Concerts were also given, with no known recording, by Henry Threadgill &
Windstring Ensemble with same or different musicians on these occasions:
October 26 1984
New York Art Theatre
New York
Bed Ghosts
Henry Threadgill (alto sax, flute)
Tony Underwood (tuba)
Unknown (violin)
Unknown (viola)
Akua Dixon Turre (cello)
October 27 1984
Same place and group
Add guest artist Olu Dara (cornet).
The Android That Terminated Hugh Pinkston Sells and Committed Suicide
{Source: New York Times review by Jon Pareles, probably November 01 1984}
January 10 1985
Carnegie Hall
New York
Henry Threadgill (alto sax and flute)
Bob Stewart (tuba)
Ali Akbar (violin)
Leroy Jenkins (viola)
Akua Dixon Turre (cello)
Premier Piece, Second Quintet [22:00]
The New Second Version of the First Version, 'May the Angels Take You Into Heaven on Earth' [22:00]
{Source: New York Times review by John Rockwell, January 12 1985, see }
June 06 1987
Merkin Concert Hall
New York
Unknown titles
{Source: New York Times, June 06 1987}
{Primary Source on Windstring Ensemble concerts: info via Andrea Gaggero}
85.09.27
Henry Threadgill Sextet in Amsterdam
Radio Broadcast
September 27, 1985
Amsterdam
Holland
Announcer [0:58]
Subject to Change [10:30]
No. 12 (aka Theme From Thomas Cole) [5:00]
A Piece of Software [11:30]
[All Compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax)
Rasul Siddik (trumpet)
Ray Anderson (trombone)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Deidre Murray (cello)
Reggie Nicholson (drums)
Thurman Barker (marimba & drums)
{Primary Source: info via Greg Campbell}
Henry Threadgill Sextett (Henry is seen in front with alto sax. Ted Daniel, trumpet, behind).
86.03.14
Henry Threadgill Trio: NEW AIR in Hofheim
Private recording
March 14, 1986
Hofheim
Germany
AIR Song [21:09]
Sir Simpleton [15:14]
Through a Keyhole Darkly [10:20]
No. 1 [09:20]
Midnight Sun [07:55]
Henry Threadgill presents his fellow group members towards the end of 4.
[composer, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto and tenor sax; flute (1))
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Andrew Cyrille (drums)
{Primary Source: info via Andrea Gaggero}
86.03.19
Henry Threadgill Trio: NEW AIR in Rankweil
Private recording
March 19, 1986
Rankweil
Austria
AIR Song [15:20]
Unidentified rag [11:08]
G.v.E. (Hopkins) [17:22]
Unidentified title [10:58]
Through a Keyhole Darkly (Threadgill) [15:28]
The Traveller (Threadgill) [11:02]
Sir Simpleton (Threadgill) [9:08]
Henry Threadgill presents his fellow group members after 3 and 5.
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; flute (1))
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Andrew Cyrille (drums)
{Primary Source: info via Andrea Gaggero}
VIDEO
87.12.12
Henry Threadgill and Orchestra at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Recorded at Brooklyn Academy of Music/Next Wave Festival on VHS video-cassette.
December 12, 1987
Brooklyn Academy of Music Carey Playhouse
NYC
Run Silent, Run Deep, Run Loud, Run High [60+ minutes]
Composition and text by Henry Threadgill
Alto saxophone: Henry Threadgill (standing in front of the orchestra)
Violins: Akbar Ali, John Blake, Jason Hwang, Leroy Jenkins, Elektra Kurtis-Stewart, Miriam Papp, Marc Sabat, David Soldier
Violas: Lori Berkowitz, Kenneth Edwards, Dierdre Lawrence, Ron Lawrence
Cello: Dierdre Murray, Abdul Wadud
Bass: Anthony Cox, Fred Hopkins
Percussion: Thurman Barker, Brian [Bryan] Carrott, Eli Fountain, Warren Smith
Voice: Raymond Bazemore, Andy Bey, Avery Brooks, William Drake, Josephine Morris, Marianne Wells, Amina Claudine Myers, Asha Pulti *)
Conductor: Hale Smith
*) The correct spelling of her name should be Asha Puthli.
The performance was reviewed in New York Times by Robert Palmer.
Greg Campbell found this recording in the
New York Public Library , and reports: 'The video in the end is quite good. The performance has an overall theme of darkness to light, which is evident in the lyrics (for example, "In the middle of the night, daylight comes, down, down, down, all around," and "in the middle of the day, midnight comes, up, up, up, all around, so clear," and ending with the repeated refrain "Shall you come home, in the middle of the night?"), but also in the lighting. The piece begins with a dark stage (the players' music stand lights being the only illumination), and gets gradually lighter over the 70 or so minutes, so that by the end of the piece, you can actually see the forms and faces of the performers.'
On this shot from the concert, Henry is seen in front and Thurman Barker behind to the right.
89.07.11
Henry Threadgill Sextett: Sweet Holy Rag
Danish Radio Broadcast
July 11, 1989
Jazzhus Montmartre
Copenhagen Jazz festival
Sweet Holy Rag [13:14]
[Composition, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax)
Ted Daniel (trumpet)
Bill Lowe (bass trombone)
Diedre Murray (cello)
Fred Hopkins (bass)
Newman Baker (drums; percussion)
Reggie Nicholson or Yoron Israel (drums; percussion)
Reggie Nicholson was announced as drummer, but my memory (although weak) says Yoron Israel.
Part of the program for this concert. Note that the program maker erroneously states New Yorker Cecil Taylor as originating in AACM.
Henry Threadgill Sextett at Montmartre, Copenhagen 1989.
Visible are Newman Baker (partly), Bill Lowe, Ted Daniel
and Henry. Photo by discographer.
Listen to Sweet Holy Rag at:
Unreleased Live Concerts (wma) or
Unreleased Live Concerts (else) .
90.00.00
Henry Threadgill / Very Very Circus in Nürnberg
Radio Broadcast
1990
Jazz Ost-West
Nürnberg, Germany
Drivin' You Slow and Crazy [15:30]
Exacto [11:50]
Unrealistic Love [10:20]
In The Ring [8:40] n.c.
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Very Very Circus:
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; flute)
Curtis Fowlkes (trombone)
Brandon Ross (electric guitar)
Masujaa (electric guitar)
Marcus Rojas (tuba)
Edwin Rodriguez (tuba)
Gene Lake (drums)
93.03.00
Henry Threadgill / Very Very Circus in Lund
Swedish Radio Broadcast
Spring (March?), 1993
Mejeriet
Lund, Sweden
Henry Threadgill interview made by Martin Hansson
for Swedish radio program "Django".
Interview, part 1 & Intro [6:36]
I Love You With An Asterisk [6:20]
Breach Of Protocol [11:30]
Snakes Don't Do Suicide [13:58]
Interview, part 2 & Announcement [6:32]
Little Pocket Size Demons [13:42]
Hope A Hope A [14:14]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Very Very Circus:
Henry Threadgill (alto sax, flutes)
Mark Taylor (french horn)
Brandon Ross (electric and acoustic guitar)
Masujaa (electric and acoustic guitar)
Edwin Rodriguez (tuba)
Herman Peña (tuba)
Gene Lake (drums)
Very Very Circus
Mejeriet, Lund 1993
Photo by discographer.
96.07.08
Henry Threadgill & Make a Move at Copenhagen Jazz Festival
Danish Radio Broadcast
July 08, 1996
Copenhagen Jazz House
Copenhagen Jazz Festival
Announcement (by Ib Skovgaard) [1:25]
On Remember [9:25]
Go To Far [10:28]
The Flew [9:00]
100 Year Old Game [12:30]
Announcement (by Henry Threadgill) [0:25]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax; flute)
Brandon Ross (electric and classical guitar)
Tony Cedras (accordian; harmonium)
Stomu Takeishi (5-string fretless bass)
J.T. Lewis (drums)
Please turn up the volume for a "100 Year Old..." at: Unreleased Live Concerts (wma) or
Unreleased Live Concerts (else) .
99.07.09
Henry Threadgill & Make a Move at North Sea Jazz Festival
Private recording from Radio Broadcast
July 09, 1999
North Sea Jazz Festival
den Hague,
Holland
Step Off Smartly [10:00]
Go To Far [11:06]
Don't Turn Around [13:19]
You Can't Get There From Here [9:24]
Burnt Til Recognition [11:15]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax, flute)
Brandon Ross (guitar)
Bryan Carrott (marimba, vibes)
Stomu Takeishi (bass guitar)
J.T. Lewis (drums)
{Primary Source: info via Andrea Gaggero}
01.08.24
Henry Threadgill's Zooid in Saalfelden
Radio Broadcast
August 24, 2001
Saalfelden Jazz Festival
Austria
Tickled Pink [9:25]
Did You See That [10:35]
Calm Down [13:40]
Pink Water Pink Airplane [4:18]
Announcement by Threadgill [0:28]
Do The Needful [8:14]
Ann. by Festival Arranger [0:20]
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax + flute)
Liberty Ellman (acoustic guitar)
Tarik Benbrahim (oud)
José Davila (tuba)
Dana Leong (cello)
Horacio Hernandez (drums)
Zooid, Saalfelden 2001
07.08.26
Henry Threadgill's Zooid & Strings of the Salzburg Young Philharmonic Orchetra
BBC Radio Broadcast "Jazz on 3, June 27, 2008"
August 26, 2007
Saalfelden Jazz Festival
Austria
Radio Intro [1:57]
Fly, Fliegen, Volar [27:47]
[Composer, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (conduction, alto sax, flute)
Liberty Ellman (acoustic guitar)
Rubin Kodheli (cello)
José Davila (tuba, trombone)
Dana Leong (cello, trombone)
Elliot Kavée (drums)
Strings of the Salzburg Young Philharmonic Orchetra, consisting of 6 violins, 4 violas, 2 cellos & 1 bass; Conductor: Elizabeth Fuchs.
{Primary Source: Andrea Gaggero}
08.10.25
Henry Threadgill's Zooid in Umeå
Radio Broadcast
October 25, 2008
Umeå Jazz Festival
Sweden
Introduction by Lars-Göran Ulander, Swedish Radio
White Wednesday / To undertake my corners open [28:25]
Chairmaster [11:00]
Sap [11:16]
After some time [07:45]
Polymorph [13:25]
Announcement by Henry Threadgill
Announcements by Lars-Göran Ulander after 2, 4 & 7.
[All compositions, Henry Threadgill]
Henry Threadgill (alto sax + flute)
Liberty Ellman (acoustic guitar)
José Davila (tuba, trombone)
Stomu Takeishi (acoustic bass guitar)
Elliot Kavée (drums)
12.08.25
Muhal Richard Abrams' Experimental Band: Live in Saalfelden
Broadcasted and recorded on Deutschlandradio (Tonart)
August 25, 2012
Saalfelden 33:rd Jazz Festival
Austria
Untitled impro [1:12:19]
Muhal Richard Abrams (piano)
Henry Threadgill (alto sax)
Roscoe Mitchell (alto and soprano saxes)
Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet)
Amina Claudine Myers (piano)
George Lewis (trombone)
Leonard Jones (bass)
Thurman Barker (vibes, percussion)
Reggie Nicholson (drums)
Maurizio Zorzi's photo of the concert.
A clip from this concert:
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Society Situation Dance Band
Henry Threadgill has also over the years led his about 20 pieces orchestra, "Society Situation Dance Band", at least documented on these occasions:
Saalfelden, Austria. August 27, 1988
Fabrik Altona, Hamburg, Germany. October 23, 1988
Verona, Italy. June 25, 1996
North Sea Jazz Festival, den Haag, The Netherlands. July 12, 1997
Hudson Tent, Texaco NYC Jazz Festival, USA. June 12, 1998.
{Primary Source: info via Antonio Bueno & Chistopher Carville}
For example the lineup from Hudson Tent, according to the jazzfest schedule, should be:
Henry Threadgill (conductor)
Amina Claudine Myers (vocals)
Bob Stewart (tuba)
Brandon Ross (guitar)
Tony Cedras (accordion, harmonium)
Leroy Jenkins (violin)
Jason Kao Hwang (violin)
Charles Burnham (violin)
Akua Dixon Turre (cello)
Michelle Kinney (cello)
John Stubblefield (tenor sax)
Booker T. (tenor sax)
Rolando Brisegno (soprano sax)
Russell Gunn (trumpet)
Ted Daniel (trumpet)
Oswaldo Melendez (trombone)
Stomu Takeishi (electric bass)
J.T. Lewis (drums)
Roberto Maldonado (percussion)
Other vocalists who have been singing with the band are Aster Aweke
and the duo of Sherri Scott and Drew Richards.
On four clips from Hamburg, we see Henry conducting. The first clip finds Bob Stewart on tuba
and Booker T. soloing on tenor sax. The right clip finds Ted Daniel soloing on trumpet and John
Stubblefield on soprano sax. The third clip is dominated by Craig Harris' trombone, followed by
Sherri Scott's and Drew Richards' singing. This duo continues on the fourth clip, followed by
Jerome Harris on bass guitar and John Stubblefield's return, this time on tenor sax. Drummer
(to the right) is Reggie Nicholson and I think the percussionist is Roberto Maldonado:
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SSDB plays Threadgill's arrangements of his familiar tunes, partly from the Sextett albums. I guess Henry arranged Bell and Ponce especially for SSDB. Unfortunately none of these concerts have been commercially issued. According to Henry,
these concerts were not meant to be recorded for repeated listening. They were live performances to dance to, like those of old times.
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Henry Threadgill Compositions
In this discography (or bibliography) you will refind the following compositions made by Threadgill:
10 to 1
100 Year Old Game
80 ° Below '82
A Day Off
A Man Called Trinity Deliverance
A Piece of Software
Abra Achtud El Buod
After some time
Air Raid
Air Show
Air Song
All the Way Light Touch
Ambient Pressure Thereby
And This
Angel Sax
Apricots On Their Wings
Around My Goose
Award the Squadtett
Be Ever Out
Bed Ghosts..., or I'll Be All Over You Like A Cheap Suit
Bee Dee Aff
Bell and Ponce
Bermuda Blues
Better Wrapped / Better Unrapped
Between Orchids Lillies Blind Eyes and Crickets
Biggest Crumb
Black Blues
Black Hands Bejewelled
Blanche's Wedding
Breach Of Protocol
Burnt Til Recognition
C.T., J.L.
Calm Down
Card Five: Open Air Suit
Card Four: Strait White Royal Flush...78
Card One: Cutten {2 Knuckles + 2 Widows + 2 Tricks}/3 X1
Card Three: Trummps Room 201 Bed 3
Card Two: The Jick or Mandrill's Cosmic Ass
Celebration
Ceroepic
Chairmaster
Come Carry the Day
Cover
Crea
Cremation
Dance of the Beast
Dangerously Slippy
Dark Black
Did You See That
Difda Dance
Dirty in the Right Places
Do The Needful
Don't Drink That Corner My Life Is In The Bush
Don't Turn Around
Dosepic
Drivin' You Slow and Crazy
Erotec (The Human Life of Machines)
Eulogy for Charles Clarke
Exacto
Extremely Sweet William
Fanfare and Ceremony
Fe Fi Fo Fum
Feels Like It
Figwig (co-composer James Newton)
First Church of This
Fly, Fliegen, Volar
Gateway
Genesis (Performed by Absalon Ben Shlomo trio in the AACM concert on March 6, 1967 in Lincoln Center.)
Gift
Go To Far
Good Times
Great Body of the Riddle or Where were the Dodge Boys when my Clay started to slide
Grief
Growing a Big Banana
Hall
he didn't give up / he was taken
Higher Places
Homeostasis
Hope A Hope A Hyla Crucifer... Silence of
I Love You With An Asterisk
In for a Penny, In for a Pound
In the Ring
In Touch
It Never Moved
Jenkins Boys Again, Wish Somebody Die, It's Hot
Just B
Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket
Just Trinity the Man
Keep Right On Playing Thru the Mirror Over the Water
King Kong
Laughing Club
Leave Don’t Go Away
Let Me Look Down Your Throat or Say Ah
Let's All Go Down To The Footwash
Like a bad wind blowin' down a dusty road / Spittin' tobacco and tellin' lies
Like It Feels
Little Pocket Size Demons
Look
Luap Nosebor
Lying Eyes
Make Hot and Give
May the Angels Take You into Heaven
Mc Guffins
Melin
Midnight Sun
Mirror mirror the verb
Mix for Orchestra
My Rock
Next
No Gates, No White Trenches,... Butterfly Effect
No. 1
No. 2
Noisy Flowers
Off the Prompt Box (Exordium)
Off the Rag
Official Silence
Old Locks and Irregular Verbs
On Remember
On Walcott
Over the River Club
Paille Street
Paper Toilet
Peroxide
Pink Water Pink Airplane
Platinum Inside Straight
Polymorph
Pop Start the Tape, StoP
Portrait of Leo Smith
Premier Piece, Second Quintet
Put On Keep / Frontispiece, Spp
Refined Poverty
Release
Roll On
Run Silent, Run Deep, Run Loud, Run High
Salute To The Enema Bandit
Sap
See the Blackbird Now
Shake It Off
Side Step
Silver and Gold Baby, Silver and Gold
Sir Simpleton
Snakes Don't Do Suicide
So Pleased, No Clue
Soft Suicide at the Baths
Somebody Got the Wrong Shoes
Someplace
Song Out of My Trees
Spotted Dick Is Pudding
Step Off Smartly
Subject to Change
Subtraction
Suisse Air
Sweet Holy Rag
T.B.A
The Android That Terminated Hugh Pinkston Sells and Committed Suicide
The Devil is on the Loose and Dancin' witha Monkey
The Flew
The Mockinbird Sin
The New Second Version of the First Version, 'May the Angels Take You Into Heaven on Earth'
The Traveller
Theme from Thomas Cole
This
This Brings Us To
Thomas Cole, A Walking Dream
Those Who Eat Cookies
Through a Keyhole Darkly
Tickled Pink
To Be Announced
To undertake my corners open
Tomorrow Sunny
Too Much Sugar
Tragedy on a Thursday Afternoon
Tresepic
Try Some Ammonia
Unoepic
Unrealistic Love
Untitled Tango
USO Dance
Vivjanrondirkski
What To Do, What To Do
When life is cheap and taken for granite
When Was That?
Where
Where Coconuts Fall
Where's Your Cup?
White Wednesday off the wall
You Can't Get There From Here
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Bibliography
Four Lives in the Bebop Business. Book by A.B. Spellman. First printing 1966 by Pantheon Books, first reprinted 1970 as a SCHOCKEN paperback edition under the title Black Music - four lives .
Black Music. Book by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka). First printing 1968, reprinted 2010 by Akashic Books. Referred to by Threadgill in our next item as the most significant book about the contemporary music scene. In
an earlier book, Blues People , Baraka is examining and explaining the history of black music. First printing of
Blues People in 1963, reprinted 1999.
Where Are Our Critics? AACM Magazine "The New Regime", no 1, 1968. Article by Henry Threadgill.
The Black Giants. Book edited by Pauline Rivelli and Robert Levin. First printing 1970. Published in the USA by The World Publishing Company.
Air: Impossible to Pigeonhole. Down Beat, December 16, 1976. Article by John B. Litweiler.
Air: Uncommon Ensemble Excitement from the Streets of Chicago. Chicago Reader, December 17, 1976. Article by John B. Litweiler.
As Serious As Your Life: The story of the new jazz. Book by Valerie Wilmer. First printing 1977. Published in London by Allison & Busby Limited.
AIR. The magazine "Musician Player & Listener", no 32, April-May 1981. Article by Rafi Zabor. (Info via Greg Campbell.)
Henry Threadgill: BEYOND AIR. Jazz Times, September 1983. Article and interview by Joe Blum.
The Freedom Principle. Jazz After 1958. Book by John B. Litweiler, published 1984. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York.
Rhythm-a-ning. Jazz Tradition and Innovation in the 80's. Book by Gary Giddins, first published 1985. Oxford University Press Inc., New York.
Meet the Composer: Henry Threadgill. Ear Magazine (out of print), October 1987. Article by Larry Birnbaum. (Info via Greg Campbell.)
Henry Threadgill: Composer, Bandleader and Alchemist. Down Beat, February 1989. Article by Kevin Lynch.
Henry Threadgill . Europe Jazz Network MUSICIANS, April 1991. Biography courtesy of Saudades Tourneen.
Henry Threadgill Biography . Musician Biographies, 1993. By Marjorie Burgess.
Fried grapefruit: The life of Henry Threadgill. Article written by Greg Sandow for Columbia Records 1995 as part of the press kit for "Carry the Day".
OUTSIDE MOVES IN; Henry Threadgill Inks A Major-Label Deal. Down Beat, March 1995. Article by Larry Birnbaum.
Henry Threadgill & Make a Move Where's Your Cup? JAZZIZ Magazine, June 1997. Article by Jim Macnie. This is the one and only negative criticism of a Threadgill record that I have seen. Macnie finds this record (by one of Threadgills most fascinating combos) tedious, when I find it a much rewarding listening experience.
Sashaying In Your Head . Village Voice, June 23, 1998: "Review from the 1998 Texaco New York Festival", Article by Robert Christgau.
Henry Threadgill Makes A Move . All About Jazz, February 14, 2005. Article by Kurt Gottschalk.
Henry Threadgill . A 2006 essay by Pietro Scaruffi from his site "Jazz Music", including "Jazz Musicians". Translated by Tradotto da xxx.
Threadgill, Henry (Luther) . ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JAZZ MUSICIANS, March 2008. Jazz.com. Contributor: Greg Campbell.
A POWER STRONGER THAN ITSELF. The AACM and American Experimental Music. Book by George E. Lewis, published 2008. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London.
About the Album "this brings us to, volume 1" . Pi Recordings, September 2009.
Master of the Mutable, in an Idiom All His Own . The New York Times, November 06, 2009. Article by Nate Chinen.
Otra escena: Henry Threadgill . Cuadernos de Jazz, 2009-2010. Article by Germán Lázaro.
Henry Threadgill: Compositor de Jazz . Tomajazz, 2010. Article by Jorge López de Guereńu. (Info via Germán Lázaro.)
A Fickle Sonance . A column by Art Lange, 2010.
Henry Threadgill: Be Ever Out . A Jazz Times article by David R. Adler, March 2011.
About the Album "Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp" . Pi Recordings, June 2012.
Threadgill Finds New Voice. Down Beat, March 2015. Article by Kurt Gottschalk.
About the Album "In for a Penny, In for a Pound" . Pi Recordings, May 2015.
About the Album "Old Locks and Irregular Verbs" . Pi Recordings, April 2016.
From the front page of Jazz Times, September 1983.
From the front page of Down Beat, March 1995.
Front page from publication with Henry on bass flute.
Interviews
Steve McCall. CODA Magazine, issue number 182, 1982. Interview by Larry Dublin.
Henry Threadgill: Music to Make the Sun Come Up. Down Beat, July 1985. By Howard Mandel. This is not an interview as such, with questions and answers, in that Mandel only makes some short statements about Henry's broad musical career up to this point, while the rest of the text is a "monologue" by Threadgill. (Info via Greg Campbell.)
Henry Threadgill. Cadence Magazine, October 1988. Interview by Miyoshi Smith. (Info via Greg Campbell.)
From Sextett to Very Very Circus. Mejeriet, Lund, 1993. Threadgill interviewed at VVC concert by Martin Hansson.
Henry Threadgill: Influences . JJA Library, July 24, 1996. Interview by Ted Panken.
Henry Threadgill: An Iconoclast's Moves . JJA Library, 1998. Interview by Dan Ouellette.
Future Jazz. Chapters featuring interviews with Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman and Henry Threadgill. Oxford University Press, 1999.
A Fireside Chat with Henry Threadgill. Jazzweekly, 2001. Interview by Fred Jung.
And They All Sang. Book by Studs Terkel, published 2005. New Press. A collection of interviews of “forty of the greatest and most deeply human musical figures of our time”.
Conversation with Henry Threadgill . Jazz Studies Online, 2008. Host: Brent Hayes Edwards, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia.
Henry Threadgill: El control de mi tiempo . October 29, 2008 interview in Tomajazz by Jorge López de Guereńu. First published in the special Autumn-Winter 2009 issue of the Spanish magazine "Mas Jazz". (Info via Germán Lázaro.)
Henry Threadgill's Zooid performs "All the Way Light Touch" . For Roulette TV, 2009. Hosted and interviewed by Phoebe Leger.
Henry Threadgill Unedited . The Wire, Issue #309, November 2009. Interview by Hank Shteamer. (Info via JJ Pédussaud.)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Education Media. Listening Party - Henry Threadgill . Hosted by Ken Druker, February 18, 2010. (Info via Greg Campbell.)
Henry Threadgill: No Compromise . A 'NewMusicBox' Interview, October 1, 2010, by Frank J. Oteri.
Do The Math . Interview with Henry Threadgill on May 16/21, 2011 for BBC Radio program "Jazz on 3" by Ethan Iverson. (Info via Bob Davenport.)
Henry Threadgill . A 'Web Exlusive' Interview, early September 2011, by Glen Hall.
"A Door to Other Doors": Improvisation and Creation Sound . Henry Threadgill Interviewed by Daniel Fischlin, September 9, 2011.
A Conversation with Henry Threadgill . Interview made 2013/10/26 and published 2014/04/01, by Larry Appelbaum, the Music Division at the Library of Congress. (Info via Greg Campbell.)
Harlem Stage: A conversation with Henry Threadgill, Jason Moran, and Patricia Cruz . September 28, 2014. (Info via Greg Campbell.)
Thanks
I got the opportunity to adopt and develop this project, that
Rick Lopez had started on January 25, 2001, perhaps due to the fact that I already had contributed to it with a majority of the initial detailing
(Rick's expression). I don't remember the exact date, but Rick made his last update on January 24, 2005. At that time the discography contained two parts, Session-by-session listing with official releases and Thanks . During his as well as mine leadership, Assistance, Direction and Encourage- ment have come from many gracious individuals and companies.
You will find the following names in the discography, mostly as primary source of information. In order of appearance:
Jeff Caltabiano, Larry Shengold, R. Lynn Rardin, Enrico Romero, René Wezel, Giuseppe Vigna, Carl Morano, Greg Campbell, Antonio Bueno, Christopher Carville, Mike Wilkens, Bill Ellenberg,
Holger Neuhaus, Andrea Gaggero, Andy Stone, Germán Lázaro, JJ Pédussaud, Bob Davenport.
Thank you all and especially Rick, who let me take over!
By listening to radio music programs I first became aware of Threadgill's music. In a jazz program I heard a trio with flute, bass and drums called AIR playing a composition in a wonderful and for me new way. I didn't remember the name of that tune, but to find out I had to go buying AIR records. The first one was Open Air Suit . After that I had to go on buying all Threadgill records. Consequently I want to thank Henry Threadgill for who he is and his wonderful music as well as his generosity to talk to me on his Scandinavian visits about his different projects like his Dance Band and his Windstring Ensemble , which I hadn't been aware of until then. I especially remember the pleasure of sharing a drink with Fred Hopkins at the Monmartre bar, while Henry was listening to Gipsy Kings from the loudspeakers. Thank you Henry and all your band members!
As a curiosity I still don't know, may only guess, which AIR tune I first heard on radio.
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