" data-original-title="" title="">Henry Threadgill's music, the bobbing and weaving doesn't maintain a continuity but can jump from one strand to another, one scene to another, as in a dream. It is tonal and not, just as dreams are, perhaps, rhapsodic or unkempt, the story or plot being as tangible, fungible as a summer breeze.

Much is made of Threadgill's chamber-music esthetic. And rightly so. It is "so chamber music precise it must all be premeditated, right?" asked the critic S. Victor Aaron in a review of another Threadgill album. He answered his own question, beginning the next sentence with "But since it isn't so ...." So, there is the jazz thing, the classical thing with The Other One, the second half of a two set concert recorded live at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn in May, 2022. The so-called chamber group is actually a 12-piece ensemble, but, given Threadgill's penchant for arranging, it is like a composite chamber ensemble, different sections taking turns when there isn't someone playing solo, the leader conducting it all.

All music written by Threadgill,The Other One is a three-movement composition entitled "Of Valence," the musical component of a large multimedia work that—as the first performance entitled "One"—also included video, projected paintings and photos, electronics, and more. More including a pre-recorded choir (made up of his own voices) and Threadgill playing the singing pianist.

Dedicated to percussionist