{"product_id":"easily-slip-into-another-world-a-life-in-music-9780593081846","title":"Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - Winner of the 2024 American Book Award and the 2024 JJA Jazz Award - An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Best Book of the Year: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR\u003ci\u003e, The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHenry Threadgill has had a singular life in music. At 79, the saxophonist, flautist, and celebrated composer is one of three jazz artists (along with Ornette Coleman and Wynton Marsalis) to have won a Pulitzer Prize. In \u003ci\u003eEasily Slip into Another World\u003c\/i\u003e, Threadgill recalls his childhood and upbringing in Chicago, his family life and education, and his brilliant career in music. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere are riveting recollections of the music scene in Chicago in the early 1960s, when Threadgill developed his craft among friends and schoolmates who would go on to form the core of the highly influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM); the year and a half he spent touring with an evangelical preacher in the mid-1960s; his military service in Vietnam--a riveting tale in itself, but also representative of an under-recognized aspect of jazz history, given the number of musicians in Threadgill's generation who served in the armed forces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe appreciate his genius as he travels to the Netherlands, Venezuela, Trinidad, Sicily, and Goa enriching his art; immerses himself in the volatile downtown scene in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s; collaborates with choreographers, writers, and theater directors as well as an astonishing range of musicians, from AACM stalwarts (Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, and Leroy Jenkins), to Chicago bluesmen, downtown luminaries, and world music innovators; shares his impressions of the recording industry his perspectives on music education and the history of Black music in the United States; and, of course, accounts for his work with the various ensembles he has directed over the past five decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry Threadgill,Brent Hayes Edwards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593081846\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHENRY THREADGILL was born in Chicago in 1944. In 2016, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eIn For a Penny, In for a Pound, \u003c\/i\u003e an album he composed for his sextet, Zooid. He lives in New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBRENT HAYES EDWARDS is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and the Director of the Scholars-in-Residence Program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Henry Threadgill \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47699015762077,"sku":"9780593081846","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_20a8f3ce-43a1-46b2-8e75-64017b85aed7.jpg?v=1772695785","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/easily-slip-into-another-world-a-life-in-music-9780593081846","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}