This Brings Us to Volume 2

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Down Beat	[3]

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."[2]

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."[3]

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."[4]

All Compositions by Henry Threadgill

1. "Lying Eyes" – 10:04
2. "This Brings Us to" – 6:30
3. "Extremely Sweet William" – 8:08
4. "Polymorph" – 11:29
5. "It Never Moved" – 7:16

• Henry Threadgill – flute, alto saxophone
• Liberty Ellman – guitar
• Jose Davila – trombone, tuba
• Stomu Takeishi – bass guitar
• Elliot Humberto Kavee – drums