Henry Threadgill, seer beyond 'jazz'

For details from that discussion you'll have to wait. My DB piece will come out early in 2010, around the same time the premiere performance of Threadgill's 45-minute "All The Way Light Touch" with featured cellist Christopher Hoffman joining Zooid will be aired on Roulette TV (every Thursday night on Manhattan Cable). This shouldn't keep you from hearing some of the best of Threadgill sooner than that -- I recommend the stripped down Air Time (by the brilliant trio from which he emerged, first released in 1978) and ultra-internationalist Carry The Day (with his two-gtr, two-tuba, french horn + drums Very Very Circus plus singers, violin, accordion, pipa. . .). Or go directly to the new one (cheap as a download). Do check out my column, too, for what it might mean when we can't figure out what we're hearing.