Henry Grimes Trio featuring Andrew Lamb and Newman Taylor Baker designated “Best Jazz Trio of the Year" by “NYPress" in its “Best of Manhattan" issue, 1O/O4!!
“Henry Grimes plays the bass with absolute control, spinning tales without words, enriching the room with the depth of his bass. Newman Taylor Baker can capture any rhythm and will surprise you two or three times each show with how far he can take percussion. And Andrew Lamb works his saxophone and flute, paying close attention to the silence between the sounds, layering. They played at the Vision Festival Concert Series, and most recently at Zebulon in Williamsburg. When you see this collaboration listed ... stop what you're doing." ~ Steven Psyllos, NYPress
Stop what you're doing!
This trio will play next on Tuesday, Nov. 3Oth, 'O4 at the Baha'i Center, John Birks Gillespie Auditorium, 53 East 11th St., New York City, two sets from 8 p.m., 212-33O-93O9, www.bahainyc.org/jazz.html, [email protected], [email protected].
Master bassist HENRY GRIMES, missing from the music world since the late '6O's, has made an unprecedented comeback after receiving the gift of a bass (a green one called Olive Oil!) from William Parker in December, 'O2 to replace the instrument Henry had given up some 2O years earlier. Between the mid-'5O's and the mid-'6O's, the Philadelphia-born, Juilliard-educated Henry Grimes played brilliantly on some 5O albums with an enormous range of musicians, including Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus (yes, Charles Mingus), Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Murray, Perry Robinson, Sonny Rollins, Roswell Rudd, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Charles Tyler, McCoy Tyner, Rev. Frank Wright, and many more ... and then one day, for reasons largely related to troubles in the music world in those days, he disappeared. Many years passed with nothing heard from Henry, yet after a very short while with his new bass, he emerged to begin working with Bobby Bradford, Nels and Alex Cline, Joseph Jarman, and others at Billy Higgins's World Stage, the Howling Monk, the Jazz Bakery, and Schindler House in the Los Angeles area. On his triumphant return to New York City in May, 'O3, Henry Grimes played as special guest on two nights of the six-night Vision Festival, gave live concerts and lengthy interviews on the air daily during a five-day WKCR Henry Grimes Radio Festival, and offered a bass clinic before 5O New York-area bassists who haven't stopped talking about him since. He followed this with three virtually sold-out nights at Iridium in New York City leading his own band. These days, Henry Grimes lives, works, and teaches in New York City and has been working almost exclusively as a leader with Fred Anderson, Rob Brown, Roy Campbell, Jr., Daniel Carter, Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Hamid Drake, Charles Gayle, Jane Getz, Edward “Kidd" Jordan, Sabir Mateen, Bennie Maupin, Jemeel Moondoc, David Murray, William Parker, Marc Ribot, and many more. He has toured extensively in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Holland, Italy, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.S. in 'O3 and 'O4, with more to follow. To the astonishment and joy of all, he's playing at the very height of his artistic powers (or indeed anyone's), just as though he had never stopped at all! The recipient of a “Meet the Composer" award in 'O3, Henry was also designated “Musician of the Year" by “All About Jazz/ New York." Still in his 6O's, Henry Grimes is healthy and strong, and his gentle, humble bearing and courageous life story have inspired all those privileged to know him, hear him, play music with him. For further information: www.HenryGrimes.com, [email protected].
ANDREW LAMB (saxophones, flutes) was born in Clinton, North Carolina and grew up in Chicago and in South Jamaica, Queens. Having studied with AACM charter member Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre, Mr. Lamb came into the City's “avant-garde" community in the '7Os, becoming an active presence in the vibrant Bedford-Stuyvesant arts world at that time, and winning a Brooklyn Arts Council grant. In 1994, he got the chance to lead a session for Delmark; he composed all the pieces on “Portrait in the Mist," which featured a backing unit of vibraphonist Warren Smith, bassist Wilber Morris, and drummer Andrei Strobert. Andrew Lamb has since recorded duets with Warren Smith ("Duet," WISland, '99) and “Dance of the Prophet," a trio recording with Eugene Cooper and Andrei Strobert (Kiki Records), and in 2OO3 his brilliant recording with Tom Abbs and Andrei Strobert, “Pilgrimage," was released on CIMP; his latest release, with his group The Moving Form, is “Year of the Endless Moment" (Engine Studios). Andrew Lamb and his ensembles remain a regular presence in the New York area and have frequently played in the annual Vision Festival, which began in 1996. In 2OO1, Andrew took part in Alan Silva's big-band project called the Sound Visions Orchestra; the following year he toured with AACM-affiliated drummer Alvin Fielder. Always, Andrew Lamb's music rises out of the African-American jazz, blues and church traditions and is deeply spiritual, profoundly emotional, and readily accessible to all who hear him. Wrote Steven Loewy for “All Music Guide," Andrew Lamb is “a serious musician seeking to uplift his soul through art, and, like John Coltrane and his progeny, Lamb's vehicle is the psalm-like expression of his tenor saxophone. The results reflect his quest, testifying to his musical abilities, enormous potential, and depth of character." Contact: [email protected], www.svo-ny.org/page.php?page=9.
Virginia native NEWMAN TAYLOR BAKER, termed a “ceaselessly resourceful percussionist" by “Voice" writer Nat Hentoff, has long worked to bridge traditional African talking drum and Western European tympani, creating a diatonically tuned enhanced drum set that allows him to develop original compositions in a broad range of musical expressions. As a young man he studied composition and percussion, receiving a B.S. degree in Music Education from Virginia State U. and an M.M. from East Carolina U. Newman has played and toured in over 4O countries worldwide with Billy Bang, Kenny Barron, Bobby Bradford, Henry Grimes, Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, Joe Henderson, Fred Hopkins and Diedre Murray, Ahmad Jamal, Leroy Jenkins, Jeanne Lee, James Moody, Dewey Redman, Sam Rivers, Henry Threadgill, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman, the Delaware and Richmond Symphonies, and more. Recent CD credits include Judi Silvano's Let Yourself Go (Zoho), Patrick Brennan's The Drum is Honor Enough (CIMP), Rapt Circle (Cadence Jazz), Francesca Tanksley's Journey (DreamCaller), Benny Powell's The Gift of Love (Faith Records), Carl Grubbs' Stepping Around the Giant (CIMP), Vision Festival Live 2OO2 (Thirsty Ear), and Billy Harper's Soul of an Angel (Metropolitan). Meanwhile, Newman is also a dedicated educator of long standing, noted for his work with the Avodah Dance Ensemble's Education Programs and with Mickey D. and Friends Dance Company. Other projects include “Celebration of the Drum Set: Give the Drummer Some" (Warwick, NY Summer Arts Festival), the Congolese “Missa Luba" (St. Andrew and Matthew Church, Wilmington, DE), “The 3 Willies" (music by Leroy Jenkins, libretto by Homer Jackson), “Dialogue for 2OOO: A Duet for Drum Set" (Whitney Museum of American Art), the Obie award-winning “Running Man" (music by Diedre Murray, text by Cornelius Eady), and Walcott Songs (music by Henry Threadgill, text by Derek Walcott). Newman is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in composition for his project “Singin' Drums." He teaches privately, is a lecturer at Rutgers U. in Newark, works with Young Audiences / New York, Arts Horizons, Arts Genesis, Friends of the Arts, and Jazzmobile, and serves on the Board of the Williamsburgh Music Center. About Newman's playing, Rich Scheinin advises in his liner notes for Billy Harper's recording “If Our Hearts Could Only See" (DIW), “Listen to the sparks, the effortless swing. With a single ping on a cymbal, he moves the music into a groove that's wide enough for a listener to lie down inside it." Contact: [email protected] .
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P.S. from Vision Festival producer Patricia Nicholson Parker, 3/O4:
“Henry Grimes is a very special gift to this scene. He plays with so much dedication and gentleness in his music. The group with Andrew Lamb and Newman Taylor-Baker under Henry's leadership is filled with freedom and zest and enthusiasm and great music. You really can hear the special voice of each musician. They give each other all the space and yet all the fullness of sound. It is wonderful to hear."
For bookings, interviews, & further information:
www.HenryGrimes.com, [email protected], Voicemail 212-841-O899.
[NOTE: No recording or filming is allowed at any Henry Grimes concert without written permission in advance.]
“Henry Grimes plays the bass with absolute control, spinning tales without words, enriching the room with the depth of his bass. Newman Taylor Baker can capture any rhythm and will surprise you two or three times each show with how far he can take percussion. And Andrew Lamb works his saxophone and flute, paying close attention to the silence between the sounds, layering. They played at the Vision Festival Concert Series, and most recently at Zebulon in Williamsburg. When you see this collaboration listed ... stop what you're doing." ~ Steven Psyllos, NYPress
Stop what you're doing!
This trio will play next on Tuesday, Nov. 3Oth, 'O4 at the Baha'i Center, John Birks Gillespie Auditorium, 53 East 11th St., New York City, two sets from 8 p.m., 212-33O-93O9, www.bahainyc.org/jazz.html, [email protected], [email protected].
Master bassist HENRY GRIMES, missing from the music world since the late '6O's, has made an unprecedented comeback after receiving the gift of a bass (a green one called Olive Oil!) from William Parker in December, 'O2 to replace the instrument Henry had given up some 2O years earlier. Between the mid-'5O's and the mid-'6O's, the Philadelphia-born, Juilliard-educated Henry Grimes played brilliantly on some 5O albums with an enormous range of musicians, including Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus (yes, Charles Mingus), Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Murray, Perry Robinson, Sonny Rollins, Roswell Rudd, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Charles Tyler, McCoy Tyner, Rev. Frank Wright, and many more ... and then one day, for reasons largely related to troubles in the music world in those days, he disappeared. Many years passed with nothing heard from Henry, yet after a very short while with his new bass, he emerged to begin working with Bobby Bradford, Nels and Alex Cline, Joseph Jarman, and others at Billy Higgins's World Stage, the Howling Monk, the Jazz Bakery, and Schindler House in the Los Angeles area. On his triumphant return to New York City in May, 'O3, Henry Grimes played as special guest on two nights of the six-night Vision Festival, gave live concerts and lengthy interviews on the air daily during a five-day WKCR Henry Grimes Radio Festival, and offered a bass clinic before 5O New York-area bassists who haven't stopped talking about him since. He followed this with three virtually sold-out nights at Iridium in New York City leading his own band. These days, Henry Grimes lives, works, and teaches in New York City and has been working almost exclusively as a leader with Fred Anderson, Rob Brown, Roy Campbell, Jr., Daniel Carter, Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Hamid Drake, Charles Gayle, Jane Getz, Edward “Kidd" Jordan, Sabir Mateen, Bennie Maupin, Jemeel Moondoc, David Murray, William Parker, Marc Ribot, and many more. He has toured extensively in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Holland, Italy, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.S. in 'O3 and 'O4, with more to follow. To the astonishment and joy of all, he's playing at the very height of his artistic powers (or indeed anyone's), just as though he had never stopped at all! The recipient of a “Meet the Composer" award in 'O3, Henry was also designated “Musician of the Year" by “All About Jazz/ New York." Still in his 6O's, Henry Grimes is healthy and strong, and his gentle, humble bearing and courageous life story have inspired all those privileged to know him, hear him, play music with him. For further information: www.HenryGrimes.com, [email protected].
ANDREW LAMB (saxophones, flutes) was born in Clinton, North Carolina and grew up in Chicago and in South Jamaica, Queens. Having studied with AACM charter member Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre, Mr. Lamb came into the City's “avant-garde" community in the '7Os, becoming an active presence in the vibrant Bedford-Stuyvesant arts world at that time, and winning a Brooklyn Arts Council grant. In 1994, he got the chance to lead a session for Delmark; he composed all the pieces on “Portrait in the Mist," which featured a backing unit of vibraphonist Warren Smith, bassist Wilber Morris, and drummer Andrei Strobert. Andrew Lamb has since recorded duets with Warren Smith ("Duet," WISland, '99) and “Dance of the Prophet," a trio recording with Eugene Cooper and Andrei Strobert (Kiki Records), and in 2OO3 his brilliant recording with Tom Abbs and Andrei Strobert, “Pilgrimage," was released on CIMP; his latest release, with his group The Moving Form, is “Year of the Endless Moment" (Engine Studios). Andrew Lamb and his ensembles remain a regular presence in the New York area and have frequently played in the annual Vision Festival, which began in 1996. In 2OO1, Andrew took part in Alan Silva's big-band project called the Sound Visions Orchestra; the following year he toured with AACM-affiliated drummer Alvin Fielder. Always, Andrew Lamb's music rises out of the African-American jazz, blues and church traditions and is deeply spiritual, profoundly emotional, and readily accessible to all who hear him. Wrote Steven Loewy for “All Music Guide," Andrew Lamb is “a serious musician seeking to uplift his soul through art, and, like John Coltrane and his progeny, Lamb's vehicle is the psalm-like expression of his tenor saxophone. The results reflect his quest, testifying to his musical abilities, enormous potential, and depth of character." Contact: [email protected], www.svo-ny.org/page.php?page=9.
Virginia native NEWMAN TAYLOR BAKER, termed a “ceaselessly resourceful percussionist" by “Voice" writer Nat Hentoff, has long worked to bridge traditional African talking drum and Western European tympani, creating a diatonically tuned enhanced drum set that allows him to develop original compositions in a broad range of musical expressions. As a young man he studied composition and percussion, receiving a B.S. degree in Music Education from Virginia State U. and an M.M. from East Carolina U. Newman has played and toured in over 4O countries worldwide with Billy Bang, Kenny Barron, Bobby Bradford, Henry Grimes, Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, Joe Henderson, Fred Hopkins and Diedre Murray, Ahmad Jamal, Leroy Jenkins, Jeanne Lee, James Moody, Dewey Redman, Sam Rivers, Henry Threadgill, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman, the Delaware and Richmond Symphonies, and more. Recent CD credits include Judi Silvano's Let Yourself Go (Zoho), Patrick Brennan's The Drum is Honor Enough (CIMP), Rapt Circle (Cadence Jazz), Francesca Tanksley's Journey (DreamCaller), Benny Powell's The Gift of Love (Faith Records), Carl Grubbs' Stepping Around the Giant (CIMP), Vision Festival Live 2OO2 (Thirsty Ear), and Billy Harper's Soul of an Angel (Metropolitan). Meanwhile, Newman is also a dedicated educator of long standing, noted for his work with the Avodah Dance Ensemble's Education Programs and with Mickey D. and Friends Dance Company. Other projects include “Celebration of the Drum Set: Give the Drummer Some" (Warwick, NY Summer Arts Festival), the Congolese “Missa Luba" (St. Andrew and Matthew Church, Wilmington, DE), “The 3 Willies" (music by Leroy Jenkins, libretto by Homer Jackson), “Dialogue for 2OOO: A Duet for Drum Set" (Whitney Museum of American Art), the Obie award-winning “Running Man" (music by Diedre Murray, text by Cornelius Eady), and Walcott Songs (music by Henry Threadgill, text by Derek Walcott). Newman is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in composition for his project “Singin' Drums." He teaches privately, is a lecturer at Rutgers U. in Newark, works with Young Audiences / New York, Arts Horizons, Arts Genesis, Friends of the Arts, and Jazzmobile, and serves on the Board of the Williamsburgh Music Center. About Newman's playing, Rich Scheinin advises in his liner notes for Billy Harper's recording “If Our Hearts Could Only See" (DIW), “Listen to the sparks, the effortless swing. With a single ping on a cymbal, he moves the music into a groove that's wide enough for a listener to lie down inside it." Contact: [email protected] .
<< >> << >> << >> << >> << >>
P.S. from Vision Festival producer Patricia Nicholson Parker, 3/O4:
“Henry Grimes is a very special gift to this scene. He plays with so much dedication and gentleness in his music. The group with Andrew Lamb and Newman Taylor-Baker under Henry's leadership is filled with freedom and zest and enthusiasm and great music. You really can hear the special voice of each musician. They give each other all the space and yet all the fullness of sound. It is wonderful to hear."
For bookings, interviews, & further information:
www.HenryGrimes.com, [email protected], Voicemail 212-841-O899.
[NOTE: No recording or filming is allowed at any Henry Grimes concert without written permission in advance.]
For more information contact All About Jazz.
