Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill (* February 15, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American jazz musician (saxophone, flute, composition).
Threadgill studied at the American College of Music at the Governor's State University. He worked with gospel shows and blues bands. Since 1962 he was a member of the experimental band of Muhal Richard Abrams and joined the circle around the later Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians ( AACM ). Together with Fred Hopkins and Steve McCall, he founded the group Air, with whom he participated at the wildflowers Loft Sessions 1976. In the band, then Pheeroan akLaff or Andrew Cyrille played as a drummer. Mid-1980s the band was briefly extended with Threadgills former life partner Cassandra Wilson. Later he worked often with unusual occupations, with about four bassists in the X -75 or with his Very Very Circus ( with tubas, trombones and two guitarists ).
Threadgill has a great interest in musical structures and devotes itself too early jazz forms. He has also worked with David Murray, Bill Laswell, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman and other musicians of the Modern Creative.
He was married to the dancer Christina Jones, a founding member of the Urban Bush Woman Dance Company. Their daughter with Jones, Pyeng Threadgill is also a musician. Together with his longtime girlfriend Senti Toy Threadgill lives in New York's Lower East Side.
Discography (selection)
Compilations
- 2010: Henry Threadgill: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint and Soul Note (7- CD box set, CAM Jazz )
- 2010: The Complete Columbia Recordings of Novus and Henry Threadgill and Air (8- CD box set, Mosaic ) - 1978-1995 - among others with: Fred Hopkins, Steve McCall, Douglas Ewart, Joseph Jarman, Amina Claudine Myers, Leonard Jones, Brian Smith, Rufus Reid, Rasul Siddik, Frank Lacy, Reggie Nicholson, Ted Daniel, Bill Lowe, Mark Taylor, Marcus Rojas, Ed Cherry, Myra Melford, James Emery