The Hemphill Stringtet – ‘Plays The Music of Julius Hemphill’ (2025)
Julius Hemphill’s songs might be nominally jazz but to hear them in a chamber music setting as rendered by the Hemphill Stringtet is a revelation.
Julius Hemphill’s songs might be nominally jazz but to hear them in a chamber music setting as rendered by the Hemphill Stringtet is a revelation.
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.