Reeds player Henry Threadgill has capped a storied 50-plus-year career as a bandleader and composer with a superb new memoir of his life and thoughts about music entitled Easily Slip Into Another World.
In this episode, he discusses how music by Howlin' Wolf, Thelonious Monk and James Brown shaped his course.
Essential Tremors is produced by Matt Byars and Lee Gardner and distributed by Your Public Studios.