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Our other picks include gospel-music legends The Blind Boys of Alabama and blues dynamo Bobby Rush, both vying for Grammys Sunday, and New Orleans mainstay Delfeayo Marsalis and his Uptown Jazz Orchestra
Henry Threadgill has been defying the conventions of jazz for more than fifty years. His memoir does the same.
It is absolutely a measure of his importance and achievement as a musician that a major publisher has brought out this book, Henry Threadgill’s autobiography (written with Brent Hayes Edwards in a fluid and engrossing style close to that of an oral history). Jazz in general is not a subject the big publishers are interested in, much less for someone like Threadgill who has been a leader in the avant-garde for decades.
This weekend of concerts, organized by Bang on a Can, has quickly but assertively ascended to the rank of destination event.
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