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Tiny Grimes on Prestige
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the 1950s, musicians who could play jazz, blues and R&B increased their income considerably. Guitarist Tiny Grimes was one of those who could switch around depending on the recording and touring opportunity. For much of the early and mid-1950s, Grimes was on the road extensively fronting an R&B group called Tiny Grimes and His Rocking Highlanders. In 1957 and '58, the blues went through a revival of sorts as rock 'n' roll grew increasingly popular. In '58, Chuck Berry, ...
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Happy 80th, Henry Grimes
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Today is Henry Grimes's 80th birthday. While Henry is known as free jazz's most eminent bassist, he also appeared on a significant number of important mainstream jazz albums earlier in his career. Henry's sound has always been strongly supportive as a time-keeper and fiery in intensity, pushing musicians to take creative risks. As Sonny Rollins notes in his forward to Barbara Frenz's new biography of Henry, Music to Silence Music, “Henry's music, the music of the man, has been such ...
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Henry Grimes - Four Days in Chicago
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Karl E. H. Seigfried
Karl performed (bass) with Henry Grimes (bass and violin) for four concerts during the Chicago Jazz Festival. Here are details from Neil Tesser's Preview: One event constitutes a miniature festival in its own right, as the resurrected New York bassist Henry Grimes returns to Chicago for a slew of performances. It's no surprise to find Grimes in town during the Festival: he spent the last several Labor Day weekends appearing in multiple contexts at the much-missed Velvet Lounge, the historic ...
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Henry Grimes and Wadada Leo Smith Offer a Rare Acoustic Duo Concert in NYC on July 10th
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Margaret Davis Grimes
On Sunday, July 10th, 2011 starting promptly at 6:30 p.m., continuing an artistic collaboration that started last October in California, two legendary and visionary musicians, Henry Grimes (upright bass, violin, poetry) and Wadada Leo Smith (trumpets), will offer a rare acoustic duo concert at Zurcher Studio, 33 Bleecker St. betw. Lafayette & Bowery one block above Houston St. and just opposite Mott St. Admission is $20 ($10 for low-income persons), phone 212-777-0790. From the late 50s throughout the 60s, after ...
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Henry Grimes's Month of 75th Birthdays at the Stone in New York City!
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Just Roots PR
Acoustic bassist, violinist, and poet Henry Grimes continues his very active schedule of concerts, touring, and education with an informal month-long residency at the concert space called the Stone, northwest corner of Ave. C and 2nd St. in Manhattan, http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php, playing various sets of music with many of his favorite musicians during the month. At the invitation of Stone proprietor John Zorn, Henry and Margaret Grimes curated the space for November, Henry's 75th-birthday month, and many of those booked asked ...
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Angel City Jazz Festival Opens October 2nd at REDCAT with Henry Grimes's Return to the LA Stage plus the Dwight Trible/John Beasley Duo
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DL Media
Los Angeles' cutting-edge jazz celebration, the Angel City Jazz Festival, now in its third year, is pleased to open its 2010 edition with a very special return to the Los Angeles stage by Henry Grimes, the legendary “lost" bassist. Opening for Henry in this evening of astonishing music will be the Dwight Trible/John Beasley Duo, showcasing Trible's soulful vocals and Beasley's outrageous piano chops. On Saturday October 2nd, The Angel City Jazz Festival opening night event takes place at REDCAT, ...
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Henry Grimes and Rashied Ali - Spirits Aloft (Porter Records, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
This recoding documents a live meeting between two of the legends of the “new thing" free jazz movement of the 1960's, drummer Rashied Ali, who was best known as John Coltrane's last drummer, but was also a loft jazz club entrepreneur and label owner, along with being musical pioneer and longtime band leader. Henry Grimes, playing bass and violin here, played with everyone from Sonny Rollin to Alber Ayler back during the first phase of his career, then famously dropped ...
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Tiny Grimes with Coleman Hawkins
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins and guitarist Tiny Grimes recorded together six times over their long careers. Both musicians were showmen at heart--Hawkins as an imposing and chameleon-like improviser and Grimes as a blues master and r&b showboater. Their first two sessions were in 1944. A third came backing Billie Holiday during a Jazz at the Philharmonic concert in 1946. Then there were two Prestige dates in 1958 and 1959. The last session in 1961 was with the Swingville All Stars, ...
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Henry Grimes and Friends in Concert: A Benefit for Harlem Textile Works at the Black Box Theater, Harlem
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Just Roots PR
On Saturday, September 12th, ‘O9, visionary jazz musician Henry Grimes (acoustic bass, violin, voice), along with his esteemed band mates Andrew Lamb (reeds, flute, percussion) and Michael Wimberly (drums, percussion), will present a benefit concert for Harlem Textile Works at the Black Box Theatre, 3O8 West 133rd St. just east of St. Nicholas Ave. over the Morningstar Pentecostal Church, Village of Harlem, New York City.
Sets will be at 7 and 9 p.m, tickets $15 per set of music, available ...
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Henry Grimes & Friends in Concert: A Benefit for Harlem Textile Works at the Black Box Theater on September 12th
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Margaret Davis Grimes
On Saturday, September 12th, 2009, the legendary and visionary jazz musician Henry Grimes (acoustic bass, violin, voice), along with his esteemed bandmates Andrew Lamb (reeds, flute, percussion) and Michael Wimberly (drums, percussion), will present a benefit concert for Harlem Textile Works at the Black Box Theatre, 308 West 133rd St. just east of St. Nicholas Ave. over the Morningstar Pentecostal Church, Village of Harlem, New York City. Sets will be at 7 and 9 p.m, tickets $15 per set of ...
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