Composer and woodwind player Henry Threadgill has been combining chamber music with improvisation for almost half a century. His work began with his membership in the Association for the Advancement ...

Jazz musicians today find profound inspiration in a lot of different places -- and a few of them might surprise you. Plenty of folks thrive in the tight-knit Chicago scene, but some go much further ...

Don't call this jazz. In a 2013 interview with Larry Appelbaum at the Library of Congress, saxophonist, flautist, and composer Henry Threadgill, in so many words, denounced the association of ...

Henry Threadgill's ZOOID featuring Liberty Ellman (acoustic guitar), Jose Davila (trombone and tuba), Stomu Takeishi (acoustic bass guitar) and Elliot Humberto Kavee (drums). November 30-December 2, ...

Henry Threadgill, the Chicagoan saxophonist and composer, is by no means a jazz celeb, but he's a hero to many influential insiders for his adventurousness with structure and instrumentation, and for ...

At the London jazz festival in 2011, Chicago composer Henry Threadgill memorably played with Zooid, the long-term vehicle for his highly personal and elegantly polyphonic compositions for improvisers.

During the AACM’s late-60s heyday it was a given that musicians like Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, and Anthony Braxton would look far outside the jazz continuum for ideas. But of all its ...