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

This week’s single song review shines a light on avant-jazz composer/flautist/altoist Henry Threadgill. A part of the seventies avant-jazz movement that brought us such luminaries as Julius Hemphill, David Murray and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Threadgill was one third of the modern creative ensemble Air with bassist Fred HopkinsRead More