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Henry Threadgill

Jazz Review and Appreciation: Wadada Leo Smith’s “The Chicago Symphonies”

If you are not familiar with Wadada Leo Smith as an artist or as a thinker, you could start with The Chicago Symphonies and know that you are engaging with some of his finest work.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Chicago Symphonies, Henry Threadgill, Jack DeJohnette, Jack DeJohnette and Muhal Richard Abrams, ohn Lindberg, Petri Haussila, Tum Records, Wadada Leo Smith

Jazz Survey: Chordless Drills – A Listener’s Guide to the Saxophone Trio

Here is a personal selection of recordings in the saxophone trio format. These linear collaborations have been part of the jazz scene for at least seventy years now. The results are almost always illuminating and exhilarating, and a review of them offers a miniature history of saxophone styles.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz Tagged: Air, Albert Ayler, Bob Moses, Bradford Marsalis, Dave Liebman, David Murray, Elvin Jones, Fly, Henry Grimes, Henry Threadgill, JD Allen, Joe Henderson, Joe Lovano, John-Coltrane, Jon Irabagon, Kenny Garrett, Lee Konitz, Marcus Strickland, Mark Turner, Melissa Aldana, Ornette Coleman, Sam Rivers, Saxophone trio, Sonny-Rollins, Steve Adams, Steve Elman, Steve Lacy, The Fringe

Fuse Appreciation: Henry Threadgill — A Pulitzer Prize for “In For a Penny, In For a Pound”

Over the decades, avant-garde jazz musical Henry Threadgill has not only enriched but remade the musical landscape.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound, Pulitzer Prize for Music

Book Review: “Outside Music, Inside Voices” — Illuminating Conversations about Creating Jazz

Jazz fans with open ears should rush to this book: so should anyone interested in the creative process, its rewards as well as its challenges.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: avant-garde jazz, Baikida Carroll, free jazz, Garrison Fewell, Henry Threadgill, Marilyn Crispell, Milford Graves, Oliver Lake, Outside Music Inside Voices, Wadada Leo Smith

Album Review: Wadada Leo Smith’s “The Great Lakes Suites” — A Miraculous Freedom

Wadada Leo Smith’s latest album features a series of miraculous performances that give a new meaning to freedom: the sometimes lengthy and airily open improvisations take us on journeys but never seem to wander.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Henry Threadgill, Jack DeJohnette, John Lindberg, Ten Freedom Summers, The Great Lakes Suites, Wadada Leo Smith

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