Henry Threadgill
- Type: Legacy Bandleader
- Country: United States
- Born: February 15, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Active: 1962 - present
Biography
Henry Threadgill is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist born in Chicago on 15 February 1944. An early AACM associate who played in *Muhal Richard Abrams*'s Experimental Band and served in an Army band in Vietnam, he co-founded the trio Air in the 1970s and went on to lead the Sextett, Very Very Circus and Zooid, writing dense, strictly scored music that draws on jazz, blues, folk and opera. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2016 for 'In for a Penny, In for a Pound'.
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Henry Threadgill Discography
- X-75, Volume 1 (1979) - Album - rated 3.85/5
- Easily Slip Into Another World (1988) - Album - rated 3.99/5
- Too Much Sugar for a Dime (1993) - Album - rated 4.41/5
- Song Out of My Trees (1994) - Album - rated 3.73/5
- Carry the Day (1994) - Album - rated 3.83/5
- Makin' a Move (1995) - Album - rated 3.84/5