Henry Threadgill  

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Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist.

Discography

As leader

Air

• 1975: Air Song (Why Not)
• 1976: Air Raid (Why Not)
• 1977: Live Air (Black Saint)
• 1977: Air Time (Nessa)
• 1978: Open Air Suit (Arista/Novus)
• 1978: Montreux Suisse (Arista/Novus)
• 1979: Air Lore (Arista/Novus)
• 1980: Air Mail (Black Saint)
• 1982: 80° Below '82 (Antilles)
• 1983: Live at Montreal International Jazz Festival (as New Air) (Black Saint)
• 1986: Air Show No. 1 (as New Air with Cassandra Wilson) (Black Saint)

Henry Threadill Sextett

• 1979: X-75 Volume 1 (Arista/Novus)
• 1982: When Was That? (About Time)
• 1983: Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket (About Time)
• 1984: Subject to Change (About Time)
• 1987: You Know the Number (Arista/Novus)
• 1988: Easily Slip Into Another World (Arista/Novus)
• 1989: Rag, Bush and All (Arista/Novus)

Very Very Circus

• 1990: Spirit of Nuff...Nuff (Black Saint)
• 1991: Live at Koncepts (Taylor Made)
• 1993: Too Much Sugar for a Dime (Axiom)
• 1993: Song Out of My Trees (Black Saint)
• 1994: Carry the Day (Columbia)
• 1995: Makin' a Move (Columbia)

Make a Move

• 1996: Where's Your Cup? (Columbia)
• 2001: Everybodys Mouth's a Book (Pi)

Zooid

• 2001: Up Popped the Two Lips (Pi)
• 2005: Pop Start the Tape, StoP (Hardedge)
• 2009: This Brings Us to Volume 1 (Pi)
• 2010: This Brings Us to Volume 2 (Pi )
• 2012: Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp (Pi)
• 2015: In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)
• 2016: Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Ensemble Double Up, Pi)

As sideman

With Muhal Richard Abrams

• Young at Heart/Wise in Time (1969)
• 1-OQA+19 (1977)

With Anthony Braxton

• For Trio (Arista, 1978)

With Chico Freeman

• Morning Prayer (Whynot, 1976)

With Roscoe Mitchell

• Nonaah (Nessa, 1977)
• L-R-G / The Maze / S II Examples (Nessa, 1978)

With Frank Walton

• Reality (1978)

With David Murray

• Ming (1980)
• Home (1981)
• Murray's Steps (1982)

With Material / Bill Laswell

• Memory Serves (1981)
• The Third Power (1991)

With Sly & Robbie / Bill Laswell

• Rhythm Killers (1987)

With Carlinhos Brown / Bill Laswell

• Bahia Black: Ritual Beating System (1991)

With Leroy Jenkins

• Themes & Improvisations on the Blues (1992)

With Kip Hanrahan

• Darn It! (1992) with Paul Haines
• A Thousand Nights and a Night (Shadow Night – 1) (1996)

With Billy Bang

• Hip Hop Be Bop (1993) with Craig Harris
• Vietnam: Reflections (2004)

With Sola

• Blues in the East (1994)

With Abiodun Oyewole

• 25 Years (1996)

With Flute Force Four

• Flutistry (1990, released 1997)

With Douglas Ewart

• Angles of Entrance (1998)

With Jean-Paul Bourelly

• Boom Bop (2000)
• Trance Atlantic – Boom Bop II (2001)

With Ejigayehu "Gigi" Shibabaw

• Gigi (2001)

With Lucky Peterson

• Black Midnight Sun (2002)

With Dafnis Prieto

• Absolute Quintet (2006)

With Wadada Leo Smith

• The Great Lakes Suites (2012, released 2014)

With Jack DeJohnette

• Made in Chicago (ECM, 2013 [2015]) with Muhal Richard Abrams, Larry Gray and Roscoe Mitchell