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From Jazz Police:
Henry Threadgills Zooid will perform on Sunday, October 3, at 7:00 p.m. at the Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco. As a groundbreaking alto saxophonist, composer and conceptualist, Chicago-based Henry Threadgill has been in a league of his own for decades. A member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians AACM since the ‘60s, Threadgill played with Muhal Richard Abrams’ pioneering Experimental Band and organized the heralded group Air starting in 1975. Threadgill also led such unique and stimulating ensembles as his Sextett, Very Very Circus, and Make a Move. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a U.S. Artist Fellowship in 2008, Threadgill recently recorded This Brings Us To with his exciting, genre-pushing Zooid ensemble, his first album in eight years. Incidentally, a zooid is a cell that can move independently of the larger organism to which it belongs. It is a word that accurately describes Henry Threadgill’s thrilling new music, stressing interaction and freedom among the participants.
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