Threadgill, Henry - Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music

An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR Winner of the 2024 American Book Award and the 2024 JJA Jazz Award According to the New York Times, Threadgill is “one of the most thrillingly elusive composers in and around the jazz idiom: a sly maestro of unconventional timbres, bristling counterpoint and tough but slippery rhythms.” Threadgill is a prominent member of the generation of American composers who came to define the “downtown scene” in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s. His contemporaries include La Monte Young, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Julius Hemphill, Frederic Rzewski, Meredith Monk, Anthony Braxton, John Adams, and Laurie Anderson. Easily Slip into Another World will take its place alongside significant autobiographies by Threadgill’s peers, including Philip Glass’s Words without Music: A Memoir (Liveright, 2015) and John Adams’s Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008).