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Threadgill, Henry.
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Threadgill, Henry.
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Composers, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.
Jazz musicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Saxophonists -- United States -- Biography.
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Threadgill, Henry.
Threadgill, Henry.
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Composers, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.
Jazz musicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Saxophonists -- United States -- Biography.
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Easily
slip
into
another
world
: a
life
in
music
/ Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards.
by
Threadgill, Henry.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Call #:
781.65092 T531e
Subjects
Threadgill, Henry.
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Composers, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.
Jazz musicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Saxophonists -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781524749071 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
403 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes index.
Summary:
"Henry Threadgill has had a singular
life
in
music
. At 79, the saxophonist, flautist, and celebrated composer is one of three jazz artists (along with Ornette Coleman and Wynton Marsalis) to have won a Pulitzer Prize. In
Easily
Slip
into
Another
World
, Threadgill recalls his childhood and upbringing in Chicago, his family
life
and education, and his brilliant career in
music
. Here are riveting recollections of the
music
scene in Chicago in the early 1960s, when Threadgill developed his craft among friends and schoolmates who would go on to form the core of the highly influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians ; the year and a half he spent touring with an evangelical preacher in the mid-1960s; his military service in Vietnam -- a riveting tale in itself, but also representative of an under-recognized aspect of jazz history, given the number of musicians in Threadgill’s generation who served in the armed forces. We appreciate his genius as he travels to the Netherlands, Venezuela, Trinidad, Sicily, and Goa enriching his art; immerses himself in the volatile downtown scene in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s; collaborates with choreographers, writers, and theater directors as well as an astonishing range of musicians, from AACM stalwarts (Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, and Leroy Jenkins), to Chicago bluesmen, downtown luminaries, and
world
music
innovators; shares his impressions of the recording industry his perspectives on
music
education and the history of Black
music
in the United States; and, of course, accounts for his work with the various ensembles he has directed over the past five decades."--From publisher.
Henry Threadgill was born in Chicago in 1944. In 2016, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for In For a Penny, In for a Pound, an album he composed for his sextet, Zooid. He lives in New York. Brent Hayes Edwards is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and the Director of the Scholars-in-Residence Program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Other authors:
Edwards, Brent Hayes.
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