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Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto: Fifteen review

(Nonesuch)By turns gleeful, sensitive, urgent and ruminative, this is a brilliant set that plays to the trio’s formidable strengths

Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto: Fifteen review

TL;DR

  • Henry Threadgill's new album 'Fifteen' is a brilliant trio performance with Vijay Iyer and Dafnis Prieto.
  • The album is more explicitly improv-oriented than Threadgill's Pulitzer-winning suite.
  • All three members are composers and free-improvisers who value communality.
  • The article also reviews other jazz releases: Linda May Han Oh's 'Beneath Lifted Skies,' Wes Montgomery's 'The Riverside Years 1959-1962,' and Nicolas Meier's 'Elysian Drift.'
  • The Pulitzer prize, originally for news, has been expanded to include music, with jazz composers like Ornette Coleman, Wynton Marsalis, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, and Henry Threadgill being recognized.

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