Sunday, May 3, 2026

Henry Threadgill - The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air [2010] (8 x CDs)

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HENRY TREADGILL

Henry Threadgill - The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of... [2010] (8 x CDs)

You can come at The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air from almost anywhere and it still makes sense. That’s part of what makes this set easy to live with over time. Issued by Mosaic Records in 2010, it gathers the work of Henry Threadgill and Air across eight discs, moving between trio recordings and larger ensemble pieces without drawing hard lines between them.

If you let a few discs play, the thread starts to show. The core trio sound, saxophone, bass, drums, keeps returning, even when the groups expand. Themes appear, drift, and come back in slightly altered shapes. Nothing feels fixed, but nothing feels random either. There’s a quiet logic holding it together.

What makes it open up is time. A first pass might feel a little elusive, but stay with it and the patterns become easier to recognise. The interplay between the players, the way lines overlap or pull against each other, starts to feel natural rather than abstract. Even when the arrangements grow more complex, that sense of conversation remains.

The sequencing helps. It doesn’t force a direction, it just lets the music move between different settings, showing how the same ideas shift depending on who’s playing and how they’re framed.

By the end, it feels less like a box set to work through and more like something you can return to in pieces. Different discs, different moods, same underlying voice, waiting for whenever you feel like stepping back into it. (B)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Air - Card Two: The Jick Or Mandrill's Cosmic Ass 7:29

02 Air - Card Five: Open Air Suit 10:19

03 Air - Card Four: Straight White Royal Flush...78 6:14

04 Air - Card One: Cutten (2 Knuckles, 2 Widows, 2 Tricks)/3 X 1 15:31

05 Air - Let's All Go Down to The Footwash 11:27

06 Air - Abra 13:00


CD2

01 Air - Suisse Air 15:23

02 Air - The Ragtime Dance 9:18

03 Air - Buddy Bolden's Blues 9:28

04 Air - King Porter Stomp 3:48

05 Air - Paille Street 2:19

06 Air - Weeping Willow Rag 11:34


CD3

01 Henry Threadgill - Sir Simpleton 6:31

02 Henry Threadgill - Celebration 13:33

03 Henry Threadgill - Air Song 10:23

04 Henry Threadgill - Fe Fi Fo Fum 13:05

05 Henry Threadgill - Luap Nosebor 11:36

06 Henry Threadgill - Salut to The Enema Bandit 10:23

07 Henry Threadgill - Melin 6:28


CD4

01 Henry Threadgill - Bermuda Blues 9:28

02 Henry Threadgill Sextett - Silver and Gold Baby, Silver and Gold 5:45

03 Henry Threadgill Sextett - Theme From Thomas Cole 6:41

04 Henry Threadgill Sextett - Good Times 6:34

05 Henry Threadgill Sextett - To Be Announced 6:29

06 Henry Threadgill Sextett - Paille Street 4:27

07 Henry Threadgill Sextett - Those Who Eat Cookies 6:20

08 Henry Threadgill Sextett - I Can't Wait 'Till I Get Home 4:08

09 Henry Threadgill Sextett - Black Hands Bejewelled 7:05

10 Henry Threadgill Sextett - Spotted Dick is Pudding 8:53


CD5

01 Henry Threadgill Sextett - Let Me Look Down Your Throat Or Say Ah 7:15

02 Henry Threadgill Sextett - My Rock 8:12

03 Henry Threadgill Sextett - Hall (Dedicated to Muhal Richard Abrams) 4:15

04 Henry Threadgill Sextett - Award The Squadtett 7:02

05 Henry Threadgill Sextett - Off The Rag 12:44

06 Henry Threadgill Sextett - The Devil is on The Loose and Dancin' With A Monkey 6:44

07 Henry Threadgill Sextett - Gift 5:48

08 Henry Threadgill Sextett - Sweet Holy Rag 13:22


CD6

01 Henry Threadgill - Come Carry The Day 6:17

02 Henry Threadgill - Growing A Big Banana 3:29

03 Henry Threadgill - Vivjanrondirski 5:57

04 Henry Threadgill - Between Orchids Lillies Blind Eyes and Cricket 7:48

05 Henry Threadgill - Hyla Crucifer...Silence Of 6:12

06 Henry Threadgill - Jenkins Boys Again, Wish Somebody Die, It's Hot 7:39


CD7

01 Henry Threadgill - Noisy Flowers 6:42

02 Henry Threadgill - Like it Feels 11:18

03 Henry Threadgill - Official Silence 8:56

04 Henry Threadgill - Refined Poverty 9:07

05 Henry Threadgill - Make Hot and Give 7:56

06 Henry Threadgill - The Mockingbird Sin 12:12

07 Henry Threadgill - Dirty in The Right Places 8:10


CD8

01 Henry Threadgill & Make A Move - 100 Year Old Game 10:55

02 Henry Threadgill & Make A Move - Laughing Club 5:01

03 Henry Threadgill & Make A Move - Where's Your Cup? 11:14

04 Henry Threadgill & Make A Move - And This 13:41

05 Henry Threadgill & Make A Move - Feels Like It 6:40

06 Henry Threadgill & Make A Move - The Flew 9:51

07 Henry Threadgill & Make A Move - Go to Far 8:55

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Music weaves itself into the fabric of our emotions, dances through the corridors of memory, and whispers to the soul of who we are. Sharing these stories deepens the connection, turning the experience into something timeless and profound.

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