Hailed by the New York Times as “perhaps the most important jazz composer of his generation,” Henry Threadgill has been celebrated for over forty years as one of the most original, forward-thinking composers and multi-instrumentalists in American music. His four-movement work, In for a Penny, In for a Pound, received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2016. In his autobiography, Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music (Knopf), Threadgill recalls his childhood and upbringing in Chicago, his family life and education, and his brilliant career in music.