Zooid

★ HENRY THREADGILL'S ZOOID (Friday and Saturday) One of the most important living composers in and around the jazz idiom, Mr. Threadgill released one of last year's most scintillating albums, "This Brings Us To, Vol. 1" (Pi), featuring Zooid, this working group, with Liberty Ellman on guitar, Jose Davila on trombone and tuba, Stomu Takeishi on bass and Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums.

NYT > Home Page By THE NEW YORK TIMES 2010

★ HENRY THREADGILL'S ZOOID (Friday and Saturday) One of the most important living composers in and around the jazz idiom, Mr. Threadgill released one of last year's most scintillating albums, "This Brings Us To, Vol. 1" (Pi), featuring Zooid, this working group, with Liberty Ellman on guitar, Jose Davila on trombone and tuba, Stomu Takeishi on bass and Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums.

NYT > Home Page 2010

★ HENRY THREADGILL'S ZOOID (Friday and Saturday) One of the most important living composers in and around the jazz idiom, Mr. Threadgill released one of last year's most scintillating albums, "This Brings Us To, Vol. 1" (Pi), featuring Zooid, this working group, with Liberty Ellman on guitar, Jose Davila on trombone and tuba, Stomu Takeishi on bass and Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums.

NYT > Home Page 2010

★ HENRY THREADGILL'S ZOOID (Friday and Saturday) One of the most important living composers in and around the jazz idiom, Mr. Threadgill released one of last year's most scintillating albums, "This Brings Us To, Vol. 1" (Pi), featuring Zooid, this working group, with Liberty Ellman on guitar, Jose Davila on trombone and tuba, Stomu Takeishi on bass and Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums.

NYT > Home Page By THE NEW YORK TIMES 2010

Pi's first two albums, simultaneously released, were both by Mr. Threadgill: "Everybodys Mouth's a Book," featuring his long-running band Make a Move, and "Up Popped the Two Lips," with a new group he called Zooid.

NYT > Home Page By NATE CHINEN 2011

"There's a big community of artists there in Brooklyn since Manhattan became unfriendly," said Mr. Threadgill, who will perform with his band Zooid on Roulette's opening night and returns Nov. 30 for a three-night stint.

Making a Bet on Brooklyn Steve Dollar 2011

He led a variety of ensembles with increasingly idiosyncratic names like Air, the Henry Threadgill Sextett, the Very Very Circus, Make a Move and Zooid.

A Jazz Man With His Own Vocabulary Martin Johnson 2010

Liberty Ellman, Zooid ' s guitarist, added via email, It ' s a system for developing harmony and counterpoint from a set of intervals that originate in chord analysis.

A Jazz Man With His Own Vocabulary Martin Johnson 2010

In addition, Zooid is to perform Mr. Threadgill ' s newest works at Roulette in SoHo for three nights this week beginning Thursday.

A Jazz Man With His Own Vocabulary Martin Johnson 2010

Threadgill's quintet Zooid has been his principle vehicle throughout the noughties, bringing rhythmically multilayered approaches to input from contemporary classical music, Latin jazz, free jazz, gamelan and the blues.

Henry Threadgill Zooid: This Brings Us To – Vol II – review John Fordham 2010