Where's Your Cup? is an album by Henry Threadgill released on the Columbia label in 1997. The album features seven of Threadgill's compositions performed by Threadgill's Make a Move band: Brandon Ross, Tony Cedras, Stomu Takeishi, and J.T. Lewis.[1]

Where's Your Cup?
Studio album by
Released1997
RecordedAugust 1996
GenreJazz, post-bop, avant-garde
Length66:13
LabelColumbia
ProducerHenry Threadgill, Bill Laswell
Henry Threadgill chronology
Makin' a Move
(1995)
Where's Your Cup?
(1997)
Everybodys Mouth's a Book
(2001)

Reception

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The Allmusic review by John Uhl awarded the album 4 stars, stating, "Even though Henry Threadgill is often considered "difficult to listen to," most blindfolded listeners would probably find themselves identifying any randomly selected 20-second segment of Where's Your Cup as something a little more mainstream... Such is the elusiveness of Threadgill's a-bit-of-everything approach to modern jazz, a style-collage sound he achieves here with a lot of help from his band, Make a Move... But give the credit of assembling these varied and sundry elements into a consistent product to Threadgill. Where's My Cup has its highly organized moments as well, which possess the same spaced-out mysteriousness as all the clamoring jam-out uproar".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic     [2]

Track listing

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All compositions by Henry Threadgill

  1. "100 Year Old Game" - 10:54
  2. "Laughing Club" - 5:00
  3. "Where's Your Cup?" - 11:14
  4. "And This" - 13:40
  5. "Feels Like It" - 6:39
  6. "The Flew" - 9:50
  7. "Go to Far" - 8:56

Recorded at East Side Sound, New York City in August 1996

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Backstrom, L. & Lopez, R. Henry Threadgill discography accessed February 9, 2010
  2. ^ a b Uhl, J. Allmusic Review accessed February 9, 2010.