(Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz) Henry Threadgill Zooid - Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp - 2012, WEB, FLAC (tracks), lossless

AUDIOCHECKER v2.0 beta (build 457) - by Dester - opdester@freemail.hu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-=== DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! ===-
Path: ...\Henry Threadgill - Tomorrow Sunny The Revelry, Spp (2012)
1 -=- 01 - A Day Off.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
2 -=- 02 - Tomorrow Sunny.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
3 -=- 03 - So Pleased, No Clue.flac -=- CDDA (99%)
4 -=- 04 - See the Blackbird Now.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
5 -=- 05 - Ambient Pressure Thereby.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
6 -=- 06 - Put On Keep  Frontispiece, Spp.flac -=- CDDA (99%)
7 -=- 07 - Recording Information.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
Summary 99,71% CDDA
94058900

Henry Threadgill's music is best served neither cold nor hot, but with an open mind. The 68 year-old composer and multi-instrumentalist has endured as one of contemporary music's foremost innovators—a cofounder of the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a bandleader with over thirty releases, and works with a number of eclectic bands including Zooid, currently his longest running band which includes likeminded acolytes—guitarist Liberty Ellman and tuba/trombone player Jose Davila, among others.
Zooid's Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp follows Pi Recording's critically acclaimed This Brings Us To, Volume 1(2009) and Volume 2 (2010), and demonstrates Threadgill's continued pursuance of music that "defies easy explication." It's as captivating and arresting as any of his previous works. p> If anything, Threadgill's concepts are evolving. Those exhaustive mechanisms of counterpoint and improvisation are still present in "A Day Off," but there are also new soundscapes to capture the imagination in "See The Blackbird Now" where Christopher Hoffman's haunting cello sings as the others join the ethereal line. The six compositions steer through complex sound topographies where Ellman's searching acoustic lines and Davila's low frequency rumblings move between bassist Stomu Takeishi and drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee's cadenced glue.
The serrated time signature in "Ambient Press Thereby" is an impossible groove and not for the squeamish. The instruments bopping feverishly: Threadgill's acerbic alto leading the way with quick and searching lines as Ellman later joins the fray with a blossoming solo. It's amazing how the different threads join, split and crisscross, to ultimately arrive at the track's cliffhanging destination.
Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp is totally idiosyncratic, exploratory and bursting with immediacy, performed by a tremendous band and its brilliant composer. (Mark F. Turner, AllAboutJazz)
------------------------------------
Henry Threadgill is one of today’s most important, inspiring, and influential composer-performers. A true American maverick, Henry Threadgill continues to matter because he has elevated the act of making creative choices to a high art. His lifetime of creative exploration is characterized by a continual, systematic, and often downright radical confrontation of the fundamental building blocks of music. His compositional output is staggering, and he has covered a vast amount of ground at a very high level, responding to the necessities of every new creative setting with a laser-like focus and a brilliant sense of play. This risk-filled process has led him time and again to rich artistic rewards.
As a player, Henry often reminds me of my all-time hero, Thelonious Monk. Like Monk, Henry has a composer’s approach to improvisation; his choices are not simply about notes and rhythms, but reflect a profound and purposeful overview on the shape and feel of the music. He is also someone, like Monk, who played in the church and in other contexts where one learns how to move a crowd. You can hear that communicative power when he plays; his relationship to the beat and the visceral qualities of his sound are profound and stirring. And finally, as with Monk, one hears in Threadgill’s music a unity between the compositional and improvisational languages, a sense that every element in his musical landscape reflects and somehow contains the whole, like shards of a hologram. (Vijay Iyer)
------------------------------------
I’m listening to Henry Threadgill’s new album, “Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry Spp”. I love it when this happens. Always hoping for these rare occurrences. Re-consideration. Clarity. First time I heard Henry was in Spa Belgium.. 1978-79..Chapati Club. Air. Man, was that ever great! Then, a couple years later in New York with his Sextet. Olu Dara. Wow! I haven’t heard all his records…can’t keep track of everything he does…but try to check in regularly. Always inspiring. My mind is opened. I’m thinking of Louis Armstrong. Inventor. What would he have sounded like to us back then? ..at the beginning? No reference. For the first time. What was he thinking? How can we get to that? New language. Spark. Explosion. Henry has that. No compromise. He’s one of the few. Gives me hope. It IS possible. There is another way. There is a way. There is a way to get there. A way to get to that place. Re-invention. Propelled forward. Into beauty. Discovering a new plant. To remain curious and continue to be surprised. Question. Clarity. Mystery. Music. Thank you Henry. (Bill Frisell)

Henry Threadgill - flute, bass flute, alto saxophone
Liberty Ellman - guitar
Jose Davila - trombone, tuba
Christopher Hoffman - cello
Stomu Takeishi - bass guitar
Elliot Humberto Kavee - drums