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Henry Threadgill

Chicago, United States • b. 1944-02-15

Henry Threadgill is credited on 208 releases across 88 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1970–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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208

Pressings credited

88

Albums

6

Decades active

27

In collections

Biography

Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944) is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist. He came to prominence in the 1970s leading ensembles rooted in jazz but with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating other genres of music. He has performed and recorded with several ensembles: Air, Aggregation Orb, Make a Move, the seven-piece Henry Threadgill Sextett, the twenty-piece Society Situation Dance Band, Very Very Circus, X-75, and Zooid. He was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his album In for a Penny, In for a Pound, which premiered at Roulette Intermedium on December 4, 2014. In 2023, he published his autobiography, written with Brent Hayes Edwards: Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music. The book was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, along with being a Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker.

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Credited work

208 releases · 88 albums · active 1970–2024

  • Performance · 556
  • Other credits · 58
  • Production · 6

Studios: Right Track Recording · Sorcerer Sound · OAO Studios · Barigozzi Studio

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