This Brings Us to Volume 2
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{{Infobox album
| name = This Brings Us to Volume 2
| type = studio
| artist = Henry Threadgill
| cover = This Brings Us to vol2 cover.png
| alt =
| released = 2010
| recorded = November 2008
| venue =
| studio = Brooklyn Recording, Brooklyn
| genre = Jazz
| length = 43:27
| label = Pi Recordings
| producer = Liberty Ellman
| chronology = Henry Threadgill
| prev_title = This Brings Us to Volume 1
| prev_year = 2009
| next_title = Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp
| next_year = 2012
}}
This Brings Us to Volume 2 is an album by American jazz saxophonist Henry Threadgill with his band Zooid, featuring Jose Davila on trombone and tuba, Liberty Ellman on guitar, Stomu Takeishi on bass guitar, and Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums. It was recorded in 2008 and released on Pi Recordings.[https://pirecordings.com/album/pi36 This Brings Us to Volume 2] on Pi Recordings
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev2 = Down Beat
| rev2Score = {{rating|3.5|5}}
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In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states, "The music Zooid creates has the subtlety and lyricism of fine poetry. Given Threadgill's reputation as a musical polymath, this shouldn't be a surprise, because, as evidenced here, in his own way he is reinventing jazz from the inside out."{{allMusic|last=Jurek|first=Thom|class=album|id=mw0002037014|title=Henry Threadgill – This Brings Us to Volume 2: Review|accessdate=August 17, 2017}}
The Down Beat review by Bill Meyer notes, "Despite a conceptual debt to the collectivism of Ornette Coleman's harmolodics, you won't mistake this music for anyone's other than Threadgill's, even though he keeps a tight rein on his own plating."Meyer, Bill. This Brings Us to Volume 2 review. Down Beat January 11: page 84. Print.
The All About Jazz review by Troy Collins says, "A superb follow-up to last year's return to form, This Brings Us to, Volume 2 is a stellar effort documenting the ongoing efforts of one of today's most important improvising composers."Collins, Troy. [https://www.allaboutjazz.com/this-brings-us-to-volume-ii-pi-recordings-review-by-troy-collins.php This Brings Us to Volume 2 review] at All About Jazz
Track listing
All Compositions by Henry Threadgill
- "Lying Eyes" – 10:04
- "This Brings Us to" – 6:30
- "Extremely Sweet William" – 8:08
- "Polymorph" – 11:29
- "It Never Moved" – 7:16
Personnel
- Henry Threadgill – flute, alto saxophone
- Liberty Ellman – guitar
- Jose Davila – trombone, tuba
- Stomu Takeishi – bass guitar
- Elliot Humberto Kavee – drums