Henry Threadgill’s New Album and Book

Source: Chicago Reader.

On Tuesday, May 16, Threadgill published a memoir, Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music, written with Columbia University professor Brent Hayes Edwards, that covers his childhood in Chicago and his time as a soldier in the Vietnam War as well as his considerable music career.

A few weeks later, on Friday, May 26, Threadgill released the musical component of a multimedia piece called The Other One, inspired by the exodus of people from New York City during the early days of COVID and the detritus they left behind in the streets.