Henry Threadgill

Henry Threadgill—Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist—is one of the most innovative voices in contemporary music.

Categories are the favored currency of the marketing department. They’re a way to sell things. A way of using language to seduce, to insinuate, to entice. To lure you into a corral. Categories are also lanes. As if music is only music. But you can’t leave out the other arts.

Henry Threadgill, notes on system for a work in progress (letterpress printing), 2025. Courtesy the author.

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