"If Henry Threadgill isn't going through a late-career renaissance, then I guess I don't know what a late-career renaissance looks like. At 74 years of age, he remains his own man. He stopped copying anyone else long, long ago, and few people dare try to copy him now. Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus and Dirt...and More Dirt, two exceptional recordings by anyone's standards, are just recent signposts for a long career that would never be mistaken for being compromised"