Too Much Sugar for a Dime
by Henry Threadgill
- Type: Album
- Released: 26 January 1993
- Label: Axiom
- Country: United States
- Length: 53:43
- Community rating: 4.41/5 from 6 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Too Much Sugar for a Dime' is a highly technical and wildly eclectic journey into avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion. Henry Threadgill directs his ensemble through incredibly dense, suspenseful improvisations driven by unpredictable horn arrangements and energetic uncommon time signatures.
Genres
Descriptors: technical, rhythmic, avant-garde, uncommon-time-signatures, experimental, improvised, polyrhythmic, unconventional
Tracklist
- Little Pocket Size Demons (10:49)
- In Touch (8:49)
- Paper Toilet (5:39)
- Better Wrapped / Better Unwrapped (13:05)
- Too Much Sugar (2:58)
- Try Some Ammonia (12:23)
Credits
- Henry Threadgill - primary artist, alto saxophone, composed by, producer, liner notes
- Tracy McKnight - coordinator [coordination], production coordinator
- Shinro Ohtake - cover ["family tree" (1986-1988)], illustration
- Gene Lake - drums
- Larry Bright - drums, cymbal
- Oz Fritz - engineer
- Imad Mansour - engineer [assistant]
- Henry Threadgill Very Very Circus - ensemble
- Mark Taylor - french horn
- Brandon Ross - guitar
- Masujaa - guitar
- Aldo Sampieri - layout, design, task design
- Peter Wetherbee - management [axiom], task producer
- Pauline Bilsky - management [for rubad, inc], task producer
- Tony Dawsey - mastered by, mastering
- Simon Shaheen - oud, violin
- Johnny Rudas - percussion [fulia, culo'e puya]
- Miguel Urvina - percussion [fulia, culo'e puya]
- Jules Allen - photography by, photography
- Bill Laswell - producer
- Dorian L. Parreott II - tuba
- Edwin Rodriguez - tuba
- Marcus Rojas - tuba
- Jason Hwang - violin
- Leroy Jenkins - violin
- Arenae - vocals
- Mossa Bildner - vocals