Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series met for the last session of 2024 by discussing Henry Threadgill’s Easily Slip into Another World . This was a greatly detailed biography of Threadgill’s life as a musician and composer.   His music, while sounding strictly improvisational, is atctually written ; Threadgill makes the point that this is serious music composition. He studied at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. He plays various instruments himself and has created bands over the years which he performed with all over the world. The bands he formed include Air, The Henry Threadgill Sextett (with two t’s on the end,) and Zooid. The book covers years and years of Threadgill’s life. He was born in 1944 . In the early 1970s he played in the Army Concert Band in Vietnam and in 2016 he won the Pulitzer Prize for music.     There were only eight of us in our discussion this time, several of our members were still away for the holidays. Marian starte...