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Album Review

Albert Ayler: Albert Ayler 1965: Spirits Rejoice & Bells Revisited

Read "Albert Ayler 1965: Spirits Rejoice & Bells Revisited" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Being that 2020 is more than half a century since Albert Ayler (1936-70) recorded this music, the best way to approach might be through what the Zen Buddhists call Shoshin. Roughly translated as “beginner's mind," or the ability to experience things as if for the first time. Since we cannot transport ourselves back to 1965, taking a posture of readiness and being open to experience the revelatory nature of this music might be the best plan of attack.

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Jazz Poetry

Black Sage (for Henry Grimes)

Read "Black Sage (for Henry Grimes)" reviewed by Gordon Marshall


I have seen the stage lights playthe sly sagacity of Henry's smile:the lightning on his lips, decadesdark with spattered starlight coming back to his eyes.To win words from that smilethat opens like a jackknifedrawing blood from parchment spurting the sanguine melodythe black sage spun like spiderin fury wrapping Ayler's axe--it is a dream, unless the song ...

Album Review

Henry Grimes - Rashied Ali: Spirits Aloft

Read "Spirits Aloft" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Rashied Ali, al secolo Robert Patterson, è scomparso a settantasei anni il 12 agosto 2009. Il live qui documentato, doverosamente dedicatogli, risale a sei mesi prima. Lo aprono e chiudono due brevi poemi recitati da Henry Grimes, che ne è l'autore (suoi anche i disegni, squisitamente naïfs, in interno di copertina). Lo stesso Grimes, subito nel primo episodio strumentale, “Rapid Transit," si fa ascoltare al violino, su cui sfoggia un approccio tanto poco accademico (un po' à la Ornette, per ...

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Live Review

Henry Grimes at The Stone: Alive at 75

Read "Henry Grimes at The Stone: Alive at 75" reviewed by Gordon Marshall


Henry Grimes, Newman Taylor Baker, Lee Mixashawn Rozie and Connie CrothersThe StoneEast VillageNew York, NY John Zorn honored the great Henry Grimes, bassist and violinist, with “a month of 75th birthdays" this November, consisting of a curatorship of his venue, The Stone, together with his wife, Margaret. A long weekend spent in New York City gave me a window on this important event, which marks a benchmark in the extraordinary and miraculous resurrection of the ...

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Book Review

Signs Along The Road

Read "Signs Along The Road" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


Signs Along The Road Henry Grimes Soft cover; 128 pages ISBN: 978-3-00-020142-4 Buddy's Knife 2007

Bassist Henry Grimes was one of the leading lights on the free jazz scene in the 1960s, playing with many of the music's most famous names, including pianist Cecil Taylor, multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry, reed player Pharoah Sanders and saxophonist Albert Ayler. Financial struggle forced him away from jazz and in 1968 he stopped ...

Album Review

Henry Grimes - Rashied Ali: Going to the Ritual

Read "Going to the Ritual" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


È diventato davvero un rituale ogni nuovo appuntamento - su disco o dal vivo - con Henry Grimes, il grande contrabbassista degli anni Sessanta protagonista di una clamorosa e dolorosa “sparizione" dalla scena, per poi essere ritrovato pochi anni fa in California e riportato [con straordinario affetto e qualche, seppur in buona fede, sensazionalismo - clicca qui per leggere l'articolo sul suo 'ritrovamento'] al centro dell'attenzione della scena creativa afroamericana di New York. È un rituale perché comunque l'incredibile vicenda ...

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Album Review

Henry Grimes: Solo

Read "Solo" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Un solo di contrabbasso ininterrotto, che dura la lunghezza di due CD, merita di essere definito epico. E' certamente epico il personaggio che ha realizzato quest'impresa. Henry Grimes, dopo un'intensa odissea musicale durata dieci anni, dal 1957 al '67, è scomparso dalla scena per più di sette lustri, tornando poi al suo contrabbasso con lo stesso vigore, come se nulla fosse accaduto [clicca qui per legger l'articolo sul suo 'ritrovamento']. Entrato a ventun anni nel mondo del jazz dopo aver ...


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