{"product_id":"this-brings-us-to-vol-i-ii","title":"This Brings Us To, Vol. I \u0026 II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOW SHIPPING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo celebrate saxophonist\/flutist Henry Threadgill’s career retrospective at\u003cbr\u003ethe 2024 Big Ears Festival, Pi Recordings is proud to release both Volumes I\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; II of This Brings Us To together in a limited-edition double vinyl set.\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing his long-running band, Zooid, the two volumes were originally\u003cbr\u003ereleased in 2009 and 2010 even though the music was all recorded at a single\u003cbr\u003esession. They were his first releases in eight years, longer than any hiatus\u003cbr\u003ein his career, a time that allowed for the gestation of what was to become\u003cbr\u003eThreadgill’s signature intervallic system of composition and group\u003cbr\u003eimprovisation that ultimately won him a Pulitzer Prize for his work In for a\u003cbr\u003ePenny, In for a Pound. The original albums were voted the #2 and #5 best\u003cbr\u003ereleases of the year by The Village Voice Jazz Critics’ Poll, about which\u003cbr\u003eNPR said “The jazz world is coming to realize that Threadgill is a true\u003cbr\u003eidiosyncratic great…. This Brings Us To staggers and lurches and creates\u003cbr\u003edissonances, and it still brings the mad-scientist funk.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRemastered for vinyl by Threadgill’s long-time guitarist and producer\u003cbr\u003eLiberty Ellman and housed in a gatefold sleeve with archival photos of the\u003cbr\u003eband, the release focuses attention on an important turning point in the\u003cbr\u003ecareer of one of music’s great iconoclastic masters. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pi Recordings","offers":[{"title":"2xLP","offer_id":48045115867417,"sku":"","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/4669\/2121\/files\/zooid-this-brings-us-to-volumes-i-ii.jpg?v=1713206320","url":"https:\/\/virtualdirect.store\/products\/this-brings-us-to-vol-i-ii","provider":"Virtual Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}