muzycy:
Henry Threadgill: alto saxophone, flute
Liberty Ellman: acoustic guitar
Jose Davila: trombone, tuba
Stomu Takeishi: acoustic bass guitar
Elliot Humberto Kavee:

Village Voice Jazz Critics’ Poll Best Records of 2009 - #2

Jazz Times Critics’ Poll Best Records of 2009 #4

“Mr. Threadgill, 65, has long been one of the most thrillingly elusive composers in and around the jazz idiom: a sly maestro of unconventional timbres, bristling counterpoint and tough but slippery rhythms… He’s an amazing jazz musician, and at the same time, when you listen to his writing, it could sound like one of the American masters.”
by Nate Chinen, The New York Times

NPR’s All Things Considered profiles Henry.
by Tom Vitale, All Things Considered

A disciplined kind of free jazz in which sophisticated, often meticulous compositional forms and strategies merge with an exploratory approach to improvisation and a post-everything inclusiveness.
by Mark Stryker, Detroit Free Press

This Brings Us To lunges at the listener with enigmatic twists and Threadgil’s unmistakable wailing alto sound.
by Bret Saunders, Denver Post

This Brings Us To, Volume 1 is a spectacular return from an important jazz composer.
by Troy Collins, All About Jazz

The group’s sound is thrillingly thorney, Threadgill’s alto saxophone and flute tones brusk and rough at key moments, rich and velvety at others.
by Marc Medwin, Dusted Magazine


Pi Recordings is excited to announce the release of an important new recording, This Brings Us To, from Henry Threadgill with his band Zooid. Threadgill is one of the most highly respected composers / conceptualists in music today: He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a United States Artist Fellowship in 2008. An early member of the influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Threadgill continues to hold fast to that august organization’s tenets: keeping an open mind to .......
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