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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

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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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Multiple Reviews

Henry Grimes: Like He's Never Been Away

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Henry Grimes The Call ESP Disk 2008

The disappearance and re-emergence of Henry Grimes after almost 30 years is one of jazz music's great resurrection stories. The Juilliard-trained double bassist, who began his career in the late 1950s with the likes of clarinetist Benny Goodman and saxophonist Gerry Mulligan before becoming an avatar of the avant-garde in the bands of saxophonist Albert Ayler and pianist Cecil Taylor, vanished at the height of ...

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Album Review

Henry Grimes / Rashied Ali: Going To The Ritual

Read "Going To The Ritual" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Bassist Henry Grimes was a seminal figure within progressive jazz and jazz-based improvisation back in the '50s and '60s. His relevance and resume contains stints with a who's who of jazz stalwarts. As Grimes' migration from Los Angeles to New York City in 2003 looms as one of the more heartening stories within this idiom, after disappearing from the scene for thirty-five years.

Grimes was rediscovered in Los Angeles by a Georgia social worker and ardent admirer back ...

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Album Review

Henry Grimes: The Call

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Era il 1965 quando Henry Grimes, all’epoca uno dei contrabbassisti di punta della generazione free, registrava per la ESP di Bernard Stollman il suo primo e unico disco, The Call. Chi avrebbe potuto immaginare che solo due anni più tardi sarebbe stato inghiottito da un buco nero che lo avrebbe tenuto lontano dalle scene per 35 lunghissimi anni? Della spettacolare rentrée di Grimes e delle vicende legate al suo ritorno alla musica ormai si è scritto fin troppo [per leggere ...


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