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.
