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Henry Threadgill
Depuis 1944
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Henry Threadgill (né le 15 février 1944 à Chicago dans l’État de l’Illinois) est un compositeur, saxophoniste, clarinettiste, flûtiste et percussionniste de jazz américain. Membre de l’AACM, il a notamment animé le trio Air, le septette Very Very Circus, les groupes Make A Move ou Zooid.
Multi-instrumentiste, il a ajouté à sa collection d’instruments à anches un instrument à percussion de son invention : le « hubkaphone », série d'enjoliveurs de roues de voitures (en anglais : hubcaps).
Sa fille Pyeng Threadgill est chanteuse de indie pop et jazz, et a sorti 3 albums.
En 2016, il reçoit le prix Pulitzer de musique pour In for a Penny, in for a Pound.
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Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944) is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist. He came to prominence in the 1970s leading ensembles rooted in jazz but with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating other genres of music. He has performed and recorded with several ensembles: Air, Aggregation Orb, Make a Move, the seven-piece Henry Threadgill Sextett, the twenty-piece Society Situation Dance Band, Very Very Circus, X-75, and Zooid.
He was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his album In for a Penny, In for a Pound, which premiered at Roulette Intermedium on December 4, 2014.
In 2023, he published his autobiography, written with Brent Hayes Edwards: Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music. The book was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, along with being a Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker.
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Discographie
Albums
- 1979 X-75, Volume 1
- 1988 Easily Slip Into Another World
- 1993 Hip Hop Be Bop
- 1993 Too Much Sugar for a Dime
- 1994 Song Out of My Trees
- 1995 Carry the Day
- 1995 Makin’ a Move
- 2000 Boom Bop
- 2016 Old Locks and Irregular Verbs
- 2018 Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus
- 2025 Listen Ship
- 2026 Fifteen
