The book on Henry Threaadgill’s amazing career has already been published but ‘Listen Ship’ keeps this compelling story going.

By expanding his band into an orchestra for ‘The Other One,’ Henry Threadgill demonstrated that his deviceful musical ideas are not only scalable, but eminently enduring.

Henry Threadgill’s creative light burns as bright as it ever did, and ‘Poof’ from his long-running Zooid ensemble is proof of why he is still earning accolades.

Working in mysterious ways with his Zooid quintet, Henry Threadgill offers another installment of ingenuity on ‘In For a Penny, In For a Pound.’

A summit meeting of progressive jazz titans, themed around the Great Lakes.

Wadada Leo Smith and his band of free jazz icons show the young guys how it’s done.

The competing tubas heard on the opening seconds of Jason Robinson’s new big project Tiresian Symmetry made me instinctively utter three words: Very Very Circus. You May Also Like: Henry Threadgill Zooid – ‘Poof’ (2021) Liberty Ellman – ‘Last Desert’ (2020)

Henry Threadgill is an improviser of the highest order, not because he can improvise on his saxophone or flute, but because he also impovises well with the structure of the song. That creates a unique kind disruption in his music You May Also Like: Henry Threadgill Zooid – ‘Poof’ (2021)Read More

by S. Victor Aaron About this time last year Henry Threadgill ended a eight year hiatus from the recording studio and released This Brings Us To, Vol. 1. It was very well received, and made almost everyone’s year-end “best of” jazz albums for 2009, including ours. On one day shortRead More

by S. Victor Aaron In 2001, the avant garde jazz leading light Henry Threadgill had just recorded two albums he wanted released but couldn’t find a record company willing to do it. Quite a turnaround in the attitudes of the music business toward creative modern music, where Threadgill’s prior threeRead More