HENRY THREADGILL

MAKIN' A MOVE

  1/  Noisy Flowers                              (Threadgill)                  6.42
  2/  Like It Feels                              (Threadgill)                  11.16
  3/  Official Silence                           (Threadgill)                  8.54
  4/  Refined Poverty                            (Threadgill)                  9.04
  5/  Make Hot and Give                          (Threadgill)                  7.56
  6/  The Mockingbird Sin                        (Threadgill)                  12.13
  7/  Dirty In the Right Places                  (Threadgill)                  8.10

          Recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York
          Produced by Bill Laswell and Henry Threadgill
(1) Myra Melford : piano; Brandon Ross : nylon string soprano guitar; James Emery : steel string soprano guitar; Ed Cherry : steel string acoustic guitar; Ayodele Aubert : classical guitar; (4) Henry Threadgill : alto saxophone; Michelle Kinney, Dierdre Murray & Akua Dixon Tourre : cellos; (6) Brandon Ross : nylon string soprano guitar; James Emery : steel string soprano guitar; Ed Cherry : steel string acoustic guitar; Ayodele Aubert : classical guitar; Michelle Kinney, Dierdre Murray & Akua Dixon Tourre : cellos.

Very Very Circus (2, 3, 5 & 7) : Henry Threadgill : alto saxophone; Mark Taylor : french horn; Brandon Ross & Ed Cherry : electric guitars; Edwin Rodriguez & Marcus Rojas : tubas; Pheeroan Aklaff : drums.

1995 - Columbia/Sony Entertainment (USA), CK 67214 (CD) Note : Bill Laswell does not play on this album.

REVIEWS :

Imagine writing for an instrumentation of two electric guitars, two tubas, French horn, drums and Henry Threadgill's alto. Threadgill was up to the challenge and his four avant-garde originals utilize the odd combination of tones to great advantage. Two additional songs feature Threadgill, just one tuba, drums, a few exotic instruments and three strings to create some particularly unusual music. It's for the open-eared listener only.

Scott Yanow (courtesy of the All Music Guide, via the Get Music website)