Easily Slip Into Another World A Life In Music Henry Threadgill Brent Hayes Edwards by Henry Threadgill & Brent Hayes Edwards 5ec33dc6-e2d2-4111-a2d7-d7b4ac31dcb5, 5EC33DC6-E2D2-4111-A2D7-D7B4AC31DCB5 instant download after payment.

An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art.
Henry 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 Easily Slip into Another World, Threadgill recalls his childhood and upbringing in Chicago, his family life and education, and his brilliant career in music.
Here 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...