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Too Much Sugar for a Dime

Too Much Sugar for a Dime

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Too Much Sugar for a Dime is an album by Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist.-Early life and career:Threadgill first performed as a percussionist in his high school marching band before taking up the baritone saxophone and later a large portion of the woodwind instrument family...

, released in 1993 on the Axiom
Axiom (record label)
Axiom was a record label founded by musician Bill Laswell in 1989, with the support of Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records. Axiom was an independent subdivision of Blackwell's Island Records, with Laswell being afforded a budget for a certain number of albums each year, basically of his own...

 label. It has been described as: "a mad, glorious romp which explores some very dark timbres and tonalities and yet remains witty, fresh and consistently exciting." (Richard Cook & Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD).
  1. "Little Pocket Size Demons" - 10:49
  2. " In Touch" - 8:49
  3. "Paper Toilet" - 5:39
  4. "Better Wrapped/Better Unrapped" - 13:05
  5. "Too Much Sugar" - 2:58
  6. "Try Some Ammonia" - 12:23
All compositions written by Henry Threadgill.

  • Henry Threadgill
    Henry Threadgill
    Henry Threadgill is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist.-Early life and career:Threadgill first performed as a percussionist in his high school marching band before taking up the baritone saxophone and later a large portion of the woodwind instrument family...

     — alto saxophone
    Alto saxophone
    The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by the Belgian instrument designer in 1841 Adolphe Sax. The alto, with the tenor, is the most common size of saxophone...

  • Simon Shaheen
    Simon Shaheen
    Simon Shaheen is an American oud and violin virtuoso and composer.At the age of 2, Shaheen moved with his family to Haifa, but he spent most of the weekends in Tarshiha, an Israeli Arab town.The Shaheen family is known for its musicality.-Music career:He began playing the oud at 5, and the violin...

     — oud
    Oud
    The oud is a pear-shaped, stringed instrument, which is often seen as the predecessor of the western lute, distinguished primarily by being without frets, commonly used in Middle Eastern music.-Name:The words "lute" and "oud" are both suspected to be derived from the...

    , violin
    Violin
    The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....

  • Jason Hwang — violin
  • Leroy Jenkins — violin
  • Edwin Rodriguez
    Edwin Rodriguez
    Edwin Rodríguez is the manager of the New Orleans Zephyrs of the Pacific Coast League, and a retired Major League Baseball infielder....

     — tuba
    Tuba
    The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...

  • Marcus Rojas
    Marcus Rojas
    Marcus Rojas is a tubist from New York City, best known for his work in jazz.He is a graduate of New York City's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and holds a B.M. degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.A longtime member of Spanish Fly, he has played...

     — tuba
  • Dorian L.
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Too Much Sugar for a Dime is an album by Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist.-Early life and career:Threadgill first performed as a percussionist in his high school marching band before taking up the baritone saxophone and later a large portion of the woodwind instrument family...

, released in 1993 on the Axiom
Axiom (record label)
Axiom was a record label founded by musician Bill Laswell in 1989, with the support of Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records. Axiom was an independent subdivision of Blackwell's Island Records, with Laswell being afforded a budget for a certain number of albums each year, basically of his own...

 label. It has been described as: "a mad, glorious romp which explores some very dark timbres and tonalities and yet remains witty, fresh and consistently exciting." (Richard Cook & Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD).

Track listing

  1. "Little Pocket Size Demons" - 10:49
  2. " In Touch" - 8:49
  3. "Paper Toilet" - 5:39
  4. "Better Wrapped/Better Unrapped" - 13:05
  5. "Too Much Sugar" - 2:58
  6. "Try Some Ammonia" - 12:23
All compositions written by Henry Threadgill.

Personnel

  • Henry Threadgill
    Henry Threadgill
    Henry Threadgill is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist.-Early life and career:Threadgill first performed as a percussionist in his high school marching band before taking up the baritone saxophone and later a large portion of the woodwind instrument family...

     — alto saxophone
    Alto saxophone
    The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by the Belgian instrument designer in 1841 Adolphe Sax. The alto, with the tenor, is the most common size of saxophone...

  • Simon Shaheen
    Simon Shaheen
    Simon Shaheen is an American oud and violin virtuoso and composer.At the age of 2, Shaheen moved with his family to Haifa, but he spent most of the weekends in Tarshiha, an Israeli Arab town.The Shaheen family is known for its musicality.-Music career:He began playing the oud at 5, and the violin...

     — oud
    Oud
    The oud is a pear-shaped, stringed instrument, which is often seen as the predecessor of the western lute, distinguished primarily by being without frets, commonly used in Middle Eastern music.-Name:The words "lute" and "oud" are both suspected to be derived from the...

    , violin
    Violin
    The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....

  • Jason Hwang — violin
  • Leroy Jenkins — violin
  • Edwin Rodriguez
    Edwin Rodriguez
    Edwin Rodríguez is the manager of the New Orleans Zephyrs of the Pacific Coast League, and a retired Major League Baseball infielder....

     — tuba
    Tuba
    The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...

  • Marcus Rojas
    Marcus Rojas
    Marcus Rojas is a tubist from New York City, best known for his work in jazz.He is a graduate of New York City's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and holds a B.M. degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.A longtime member of Spanish Fly, he has played...

     — tuba
  • Dorian L. Parreott II — tuba
  • Mark Taylor — French horn
    Horn (instrument)
    The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....

  • Brandon Ross — guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...

     (electric & acoustic)
  • Masujaa — guitar (electric)
  • Gene Lake — drums
    Drum kit
    A drum set is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person . The term "drum kit" first became used in the 1700s in Britain...

  • Larry Bright — cymbal
    Cymbal
    Cymbals are a common percussion instrument. Cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various alloys; see cymbal making for a discussion of their manufacture. The greater majority of cymbals are of indefinite pitch, although small disc-shaped cymbals based on ancient designs sound a...

    s, drums
  • Miguel Urvina — puya
    Culoepuya
    The culo'e puya drums, also known as culoepuya, culo e puya, or culepuya, are a battery of small drums originally from Venezuela, with a Kongo lineage...

    , culo
    Culoepuya
    The culo'e puya drums, also known as culoepuya, culo e puya, or culepuya, are a battery of small drums originally from Venezuela, with a Kongo lineage...

    , fulia
    Fulía
    Fulía is a typical musical style of the Venezuelan coast, it is sung or recited, and is interpreted with: cuatro, guitar, mandolin, maracas and a square drum in the east of Venezuela, and the tambora of velorio or tamborita in the central region...

  • Johnny Rudas — fulia, puya, culo
  • Mossa Bildner
    Mossa Bildner
    Mossa Bildner is a Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist best-known for vocal work with Henry Threadgill and for arranging the Colours of Ritual performances in New York City.-External links:** details of 2007 event.*...

     — vocals
  • Arenae — vocals