Henry Threadgill, Master of the Mutable

From NYTimes.com:

ON a recent Sunday, in the home stretch of a concert at Roulette, a new-music institution in SoHo, Henry Threadgill shut his eyes and flashed an enigmatic smile. His longtime ensemble, Zooid, was nearing the end of a labyrinthine, nearly hourlong world premiere, and the atmosphere in the room — packed beyond capacity, with people crowded in the aisles — had become humid and heady. Mr. Threadgill swayed to the music’s layered pulse before picking up his alto saxophone. Then, as if cued by a secret signal, he and his musicians landed together on a sharp, culminating blare. There was a moment of startled silence before an eruption of applause.

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