Jazz Articles about Henry Grimes

Signs Along The Road

by Jakob Baekgaard
January 19, 2010

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 ...

Henry Grimes - Rashied Ali: Going to the Ritual

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 6, 2009

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 ...

Henry Grimes: Solo

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 25, 2009

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 ...

Henry Grimes: Like He's Never Been Away

by Matthew Miller
March 14, 2009

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 ...

Henry Grimes / Rashied Ali: Going To The Ritual

by Glenn Astarita
January 27, 2009

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 ...

Henry Grimes: The Call

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 12, 2009

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 ...

Pharoah Sanders: Tauhid

by Chris May
July 1, 2008

Conventional wisdom has it that saxophonist Pharoah Sanders' signature, late-1960s astral jazz recording is “The Creator Has A Master Plan" from Karma (Impulse!, 1969). But conventional wisdom is rarely to be trusted. Clocking in at an unhurried and mesmerising 32:45, “Master Plan" is certainly definitive Sanders of the time; yet “Upper Egypt And Lower Egypt," from Sanders' own-name Impulse! debut, Tauhid, recorded in November, 1966, is arguably the finest statement in his astral oeuvre.At a relatively brief 16:16, ...