Happy 80th, Henry Grimes

Reprinted from http://jazzwax.com

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 and avant-garde jazz albums earlier in his career. Henry's sound has always been strongly supportive as a time-keeper and fiery in its intensity, pushing musicians playing with him 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 an immense gift to me in my own career. It's something for which I will always be grateful."

Let's explore Henry's wide-ranging career with 10 choice clips:

Here's Henry with Lee Konitz, guitarist Billy Bauer and drummer Dave Bailey in 1957 on Lennie Bird. Dig what Henry is doing back there...

Here's Henry on Crazy Day, from The Gerry Mulligan Songbook with Lee Konitz (as), Allen Eager and Zoot Sims (as,ts), Al Cohn (bar,ts), Gerry Mulligan (bar), Freddie Green (g) and Dave Bailey (d), with Bill Holman's arrangements (1957)...

Here's Henry with singer-pianist Mose Allison and drummer Paul Motian on I Love the Life I Live (1960)...

Here's Henry with organist Shirley Scott and drummer Otis Finch on Horace Silver's Sister Sadie (1961)...

Here's Henry with Jerome Richardson, on baritone saxophone, playing Moon River from his Going to the Moviesalbum (1962)...

Here's Henry with Sonny Rollins, cornetist Don Cherry and drummer Billy Higgins on If I Could Write a Book (1963)...

Here's Henry with Don Cherry, saxophoist Gato Barbieri and drummer Ed Blackwell on side 1 of Complete Communion(1965)...

Here's Henry with pianist Cecil Taylor and Bill Dixon (tp), Jimmy Lyons (as), Alan Silva (b) and Andrew Cyrille (d) on Conquistador! (1966)...

Here's Henry in 2012 with bassist Christian McBride, flugelhornist Roy Campbell and alto saxophonist John Zorn....

And here's Henry with Sonny Rollins and drummer Joe Harris playing It Don't Mean a Thing in Sweden in 1959...

Used with permission by Marc Myers

Sam Newsome & Henry Grimes

Sam Newsome & Henry Grimes

Appearing Sunday, July 12th 8:00pm

@ ABC No Rio COMA

On Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 8:00 PM, soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome and legendary bassist Henry Grimes will perform together as a part of the weekly-improvised music series presented by ABC No Rio COMA, located at 156 Rivington Street (between Suffolk & Clinton Streets), two blocks below Houston St., Manhattan (NYC).

Newsome, who has made the solo saxophone format a defining component of his musical identity in most recent years will share the bandstand with bassist and multi-instrumentalist Henry Grimes, who has played with such notables as Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, and Albert Iyler, and has proven to be an important bandleader in his own right. This evening of adventurous improvised music will be a rare musical gathering that’s not to be missed.

If you plan to attend, please go to their Facebook event page and hit WILL ATTEND: https://www.facebook.com/events/511813055642595/
 
Sam Newsome
Newsome first came into prominence on the New York jazz scene as a member of the Terence Blanchard Quintet in the early 1990s. Feeling uninspired by his sound on the tenor, along with his inability to shake his early influences, Newsome traded in the larger tenor saxophone for the smaller more difficult soprano saxophone. This led to him broadening his musical palette with atypical jazz influences through whicht he honed with his band of seven years, Global Unity.

Frustrated with trying to keep a working band together, Newsome became attracted to the format of solo saxophone, and began diligently studying the solo works of Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Sonny Rollins, and Anthony Braxton. He hit his artistic stride when he began releasing a series of solo saxophone recordings, including Blue Soliloquy (2010), which was given the distinguished five star ★★★★★ (masterpiece) rating by DownBeat Magazine, and his latest solo saxophone outing, The Straight Horn of Africa: A Path to Liberation – The Art of the Soprano, Vol. 2 (2014), which received ★★★★ 1/2 stars in DownBeat and was described by DownBeat writer Ed Enright as “a modern masterpiece.”
 

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Henry Grimes
Now in his 80th year, Henry Grimes (double bass, violin, poetry) is a progenitor and architect of the "avant-jazz" or "free jazz" movement of the 1950s and '60s, having created new music alongside Albert Ayler, Amiri Baraka, Coleman Hawkins, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Cecil Taylor, and more.  But a trip to the West Coast went awry, leaving Henry in downtown L.A. at the end of the '60s with a broken bass he couldn't pay to repair, so he faded away from the music world.

Discovered there in 2002, Grimes was given a bass by William Parker and very soon was back in full force.  Since then, Henry has played / toured / recorded with Rashied Ali, Marshall Allen, Marilyn Crispell, Bobby Few, Edward "Kidd" Jordan, Roscoe Mitchell, Marc Ribot, Wadada Leo Smith, and more.

Since 2003, Grimes has played nearly 600 concerts in 30 countries, made his professional debut on violin at age 70 with Cecil Taylor at Lincoln Center, published the first volume of his poetry, and illustrates his new recordings and publications.
 

http://henrygrimes.com
https://www.facebook.com/HenryGrimes
grimestimes@earthlink.net

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Henry Grimes and Andrew Cyrille

HENRY GRIMES AND ANDREW CYRILLE MAKE MUSIC NEW AGAIN AT ZURCHER ART STUDIO, NEW YORK CITY, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1st, 2013

WHO:  Henry Grimes (acoustic bass, violin, poetry) and Andrew Cyrille (drum kit) 
WHAT:  concert (jazz / avant-garde jazz)
WHEN:  Tuesday, Oct. 1st, 2013, 7 p.m. promptly
WHERE:  Zurcher Studio, 33 Bleecker St. betw. Lafayette & Bowery one block above Houston St. and just opposite Mott St., 212-777-0790, <www.galeriezurcher.com>.

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... "As for Henry Grimes and Andrew Cyrille [in the Bang-on-a-Can Marathon], a tremendous amount of music was being produced by just two men.  Grimes alternated between bass (olive green and covered with shiny star stickers) and violin.  On bass alone, he was something of a one-man orchestra, bowing, strumming, double-stopping and producing a wide, deep stream of music.  Cyrille's drums, skittering, restless, kept the music moving forward, though not in anything like a straight line.  The music was decidedly and proudly free..."  -- "All About Jazz."

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In the late ‘50s and throughout the ‘60s, after receiving his music education at the Mastbaum School in Philadelphia and at Juilliard, HENRY GRIMES (upright bass, violin, poetry) played acoustic bass with many master jazz musicians of that era, including Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, and McCoy Tyner.  Sadly, a trip to the West Coast to work with Al Jarreau and Jon Hendricks went awry, leaving Henry in downtown Los Angeles at the end of the '60s with a broken bass he couldn't pay to repair, so he sold it for a small sum and faded away from the music world.  Without a bass, a vehicle, or a telephone, he was truly lost.  He survived by doing manual labor and redirecting his creative powers into writing poetry.  He was discovered there by a Georgia social worker and fan in 2002, was given a bass by William Parker, and very soon afterwards made a triumphant return to New York City in early 2003 to play in New York City's great Vision Festival.  Since then, Henry Grimes has played more than 500 concerts (including many festivals), touring throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, playing and recording with many of this era's music heroes, such as Rashied Ali, Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Dixon, Edward "Kidd" Jordan, Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray, William Parker, Marc Ribot, Wadada Leo Smith, and again, Cecil Taylor.  Henry made his professional debut on a second instrument (the violin) at Lincoln Center at the age of 70, has seen the publication of the first volume of his poetry, "Signs Along the Road," and creates illustrations to accompany his new recordings and publications.  He has received many honors in recent years, including four Meet the Composer grants, and has also held a number of recent residencies and offered master classes at many top educational institutions around the world.  Henry can be heard on 87 recordings, including a dozen recent ones, on various labels.  <http://henrygrimes.com>.

Master percussionist ANDREW CYRILLE was born in Brooklyn and as a child played in a drum and bugle corps, worked in jazz groups during his early teens, was fortunate to have Philly Joe Jones as his mentor, and gave serious thought to studying chemistry, but he decided to pursue music and enrolled at the Juilliard School in the late '50's (as did Henry Grimes).  Since then Mr. Cyrille has played / recorded / toured with a wide range of musicians, including Muhal Richard Abrams, John Carter, Marilyn Crispell, Kenny Dorham, Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Oliver Lake, Jimmy Lyons, David Murray, Horace Tapscott, Vladimir Tarasov, Mal Waldron, Reggie Workman, Mary Lou Williams, and countless others.  When Sunny Murray left Cecil Taylor's group in 1964, Andrew replaced him and stayed with the pianist for 12 years.  Since then, Andrew has organized several percussion groups, including Dialogue of the Drums, Pieces of Time, and Weights and Measures; other distinguished percussionists in these groups included Obo Addy, Rashied Ali, Thabo Michael Carvin, Kenny Clarke, Milford Graves, and Famoudou Don Moye.  These days, Andrew Cyrille continues to record and perform in duo, trio, quartet, quintet, and big band formations; in addition, he is on the faculty of the New School University in New York City.   His sterling work has earned him a number of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and from Meet the Composer, and in 1999, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for composition.  Further information:  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cyrille>.

Master jazz musician, HENRY GRIMES

Master jazz musician (acoustic bass, violin) HENRY GRIMES has played nearly 5OO concerts in 28 countries (including many festivals) since 2OO3, when he made his astonishing return to the music world after 35 years away.  He was born and raised in Philadelphia and attended the Mastbaum School and Juilliard.  As a youngster in the ’5O’s and early ’6O’s, he came up in the music playing and touring with Willis “Gator Tail” Jackson, Arnett Cobb, “Bullmoose” Jackson, “Little” Willie John, and a number of other great R&B / soul musicians; but drawn to jazz, he went on to play, tour, and record with many great jazz musicians of that era, including Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Murray, Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, and Rev. Frank Wright.  Sadly, a trip to the West Coast to work with Al Jarreau and Jon Hendricks went awry, leaving Henry in Los Angeles at the end of the ’6O’s with a broken bass he couldn’t pay to repair, so he sold it for a small sum and faded away from the music world.  Many years passed with nothing heard from him, as he lived in his tiny rented room in an S.R.O. hotel in downtown Los Angeles, working as a manual laborer, custodian, and maintenance man, and writing many volumes of handwritten poetry.  He was discovered there by a Georgia social worker and fan in 2OO2 and was given a bass by William Parker, and after only a few weeks of ferocious woodshedding, Henry emerged from his room to begin playing concerts around Los Angeles and shortly afterwards made a triumphant return to New York City in May, ‘O3 to play in the Vision Festival.  Since then, often working as a leader, he has played, toured, and / or recorded with many of this era’s music heroes, such as Rashied Ali, Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Marilyn Crispell, Ted Curson, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Dixon, Andrew Lamb, Edward “Kidd” Jordan, Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray, William Parker, Marc Ribot, Wadada Leo Smith, and Cecil Taylor.  In the past few years, Henry has also held a number of residencies and offered workshops and master classes on major campuses, including Berklee College of Music, Buffalo Academy for Visual & Performing Arts, CalArts (with Wadada Leo Smith), Hamilton College of Performing Arts (with Rashied Ali), Humber College (Toronto), Mills College (with Roscoe Mitchell), New England Conservatory, the University of Gloucestershire at Cheltenham, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and several more.  He can be heard on about a dozen new recordings, made his professional debut on a second instrument (the violin) at the age of 7O, has seen the publication of the first volume of his poetry, “Signs Along the Road,” and creates illustrations to accompany his new recordings and publications.  He has received many honors in recent years, including four Meet the Composer grants and a grant from the Acadia Foundation.  Mr. Grimes can be heard on more than 85 recordings on various labels, including Atlantic, Ayler Records, Blue Note, Columbia, ESP-Disk, ILK Music, Impulse!, JazzNewYork Productions, Pi Recordings, Porter Records, Prestige, Riverside, and Verve.  Henry Grimes now lives and teaches in New York City.   [This bio last updated July, 2O12.]

H E N R Y G R I M E S and M E L V I N G I B B S !

H E N R Y  G R I M E S and M E L V I N  G I B B S !

Sunday soul meeting

April 3rd, 2O11, 3 p.m.

Melvin Gibbs & Henry Grimes, NYC, 2O11, photo by Brandon Ross

at Connie Crothers' loft, 475 Kent Ave. betw. Division Ave. & South 11th St., #41O,

Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, NY - grimestimes@earthlink.net.

Master jazz musician HENRY GRIMES (acoustic bass, violin, poetry) has played more than 4OO concerts in 24 countries (including many festivals) since his astounding return to the music in 2OO3 after 35 years away.  He toured with R&B bands in his teens, then attended Juilliard as a classical bassist, but drawn to jazz, he went on to play / tour / record in the late '5Os and '6Os with Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, and McCoy Tyner.

But a trip west to work with Al Jarreau and Jon Hendricks went awry, leaving Henry in downtown L.A. at the end of the '6Os with a broken bass he couldn't pay to repair, so he sold it for a small sum and faded away from the music world, making a meager living as a custodian and maintenance man. Discovered there in 2OO2, he was given a bass by William Parker and shortly afterwards made a triumphant return to New York City to play in the Vision Festival.

Nowadays, living in New York City and often working as a leader, Henry plays / tours / records with Marshall Allen, Marilyn Crispell, Edward "Kidd" Jordan, Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray, Marc Ribot, Wadada Leo Smith, Cecil Taylor, and  more.

Henry has held recent residencies and master classes at Berklee, CalArts, Hamilton College,Humber College, Mills College, New England Conservatory, University of Gloucestershire, University of Michigan, etc., can be heard on 85 recordings, made his professional debut on a second instrument (violin) at age 7O, has seen the publication of his first poetry book, and creates illustrations for his new recordings and publications.  He has received many honors in recent years, including four Meet the Composer grants.  http://www.henrygrimes.com, grimestimes@earthlink.net.

MELVIN GIBBS is a bass guitarist, composer, and producer who has appeared on close to 2OO albums in diverse genres of music.  A Brooklyn native, he attended Medgar Evers College and Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.  He first came to public notice as a member of the group Defunkt, a mainstay of the early '8Os downtown N.Y. scene, and throughout most of the '8Os, he played in drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society alongside guitarist Vernon Reid, as well as playing with guitarist Sonny Sharrock and saxophonist John Zorn.

Melvin was also a member of the group Power Tools alongside guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, and he co-led the band Eye and I.  He is a founding member of the Black Rock Coalition. Melvin was a member of the Grammy-nominated avant-metal Rollins Band from 1993-98, and again in 2OO6 when the group briefly re-formed.  He has also recorded with hip-hop artists Dead Prez, Brazilian artists Caetano Veloso and Marisa Monte,Latin jazz artist Eddie Palmieri, Nigerian artist Femi Kuti, and New York guitarist Marc Ribot.

He has also produced albums by guitarist/ singer Arto Lindsay and turntablist DJ Logic.  He formed the Punk-Funk All-Stars with guitarist/ singer James Blood Ulmer, Defunkt leader Joseph Bowie, Vernon Reid, and Ronald Shannon Jackson.  He co-leads the band Harriet Tubman with guitarist Brandon Ross and drummer JT Lewis.

His other current projects include "Melvin Runs the Hoodoo Down" featuring guitarist Pete Cosey and keyboardist John Medeski, the JFM Trio featuring Chicago guitarist Jeff Parker and percussionistFrancisco Mora, and the Geechee Seminoles, a duo featuring Melvin and drummer/ hand-body percussionist/ dancer David Pleasant.  In 2OO9 Mr. Gibbs joined the group SociaLybrium with keyboardist Bernie Worrell, long-time Parliament-Funkadelicguitarist and musical director DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight, and JT Lewis on drums.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Gibbs.

Master jazz musician (acoustic bass, violin) Henry Grimes has played more than 400 concerts in 24 countries

Master jazz musician (acoustic bass, violin) HENRY GRIMES has played more than 4OO concerts in 24 countries (including many festivals) since 2OO3, when he made his astonishing return to the music world after 35 years away. He was born and raised in Philadelphia and attended the Mastbaum School and Juilliard.

As a youngster in the '5O's and early '6O's, he came up in the music playing and touring with Willis "Gator Tail" Jackson, Arnett Cobb, "Bullmoose" Jackson, "Little" Willie John, and a number of other great R&B / soul musicians; but drawn to jazz, he went on to play, tour, and record with many great jazz musicians of that era, including Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Murray, Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, and Rev. Frank Wright.

Sadly, a trip to the West Coast to work with Al Jarreau and Jon Hendricks went awry, leaving Henry in Los Angeles at the end of the '6O's with a broken bass he couldn't pay to repair, so he sold it for a small sum and faded away from the music world. Many years passed with nothing heard from him, as he lived in his tiny rented room in an S.R.O. hotel in downtown Los Angeles, working as a manual laborer, custodian, and maintenance man, and writing many volumes of handwritten poetry.

He was discovered there by a Georgia social worker and fan in 2OO2 and was given a bass by William Parker, and after only a few weeks of ferocious woodshedding, Henry emerged from his room to begin playing concerts around Los Angeles and shortly afterwards made a triumphant return to New York City in May, 'O3 to play in the Vision Festival. Since then, often working as a leader, he has played, toured, and / or recorded with many of today's music heroes, such as Rashied Ali, Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Marilyn Crispell, Ted Curson, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Dixon, Dave Douglas, Andrew Lamb, Edward "Kidd" Jordan, Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray, William Parker, Marc Ribot, Wadada Leo Smith, and Cecil Taylor.

In the past few years, Henry has also held a number of residencies and offered workshops and master classes on major campuses (including Berklee College of Music, New England Conservatory, Hamilton College of Performing Arts, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, CalArts, Mills College, the University of Gloucestershire at Cheltenham, and several more). He can be heard on about a dozen new recordings, made his professional debut on a second instrument (the violin) at the age of 7O, has seen the publication of the first volume of his poetry, "Signs Along the Road," and creates illustrations to accompany his new recordings and publications.
Photo by Joan Cortes, Barcelona, '06

He has received many honors in recent years, including four Meet the Composer grants and a grant from the Acadia Foundation. He can be heard on more than 85 recordings on various labels, including Atlantic, Ayler Records, Blue Note, Columbia, ESP-Disk, ILK Music, Impulse!, JazzNewYork Productions, Pi Recordings, Porter Records, Prestige, Riverside, and Verve. Henry Grimes now lives and teaches in New York City.

N E W .. Y E A R ' S .. E V E ! !

at the Stone , northwest corner of Ave. C and 2nd St., Manhattan, curated by John Zorn, thestone. Both sets will be sold out, and it’s a small room, so please arrive early and wait quietly in line so as not to disturb the residential neighbors.

Friday, 12/31/1O, 7 pm:
JOHN ZORN, BILL LASWELL, & MILFORD GRAVES
John Zorn (alto saxophone), Bill Laswell (electric bass), Milford Graves (drums)

Friday, 12/31/1O, 11 pm:
“Bells at Midnight”
MARC RIBOT (guitar) w/ HENRY GRIMES (bass, violin), MARY HALVORSON (guitar), CHAD TAYLOR (drums), and JOHN ZORN (alto saxophone)
Marc Ribot and his trio + 2 perform a free ritual /jam leading through a midnight rendition of Albert Ayler's masterpiece “Bells.”

Henry Grimes playz the blues

with Marc Ribot and Chad Taylor

Grimes Times ! Henry Grimes, Renaissance Man, hits the road in his 75th birthday year

HENRY GRIMES (acoustic bass, violin, poetry) has played more than 38O concerts in 24 countries (including many festivals) since 2OO3, when he made his astonishing return to the music world after 35 years away. He was born and raised in Philadelphia and attended the Mastbaum School and Juilliard.

In the '5O's and '6O's, he came up in the music playing and touring with Arnett Cobb, Willis "Gator Tail" Jackson, "Bullmoose" Jackson, "Little" Willie John, and a number of other great R&B / soul musicians; but drawn to jazz, he went on to play, tour, and record with many great jazz musicians of that era, including Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Murray, Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, and many more.

Sadly, a trip to the West Coast to work with Al Jarreau and Jon Hendricks went awry, leaving Henry in Los Angeles at the end of the '6O's with a broken bass he couldn't pay to repair, so he sold it for a small sum and faded away from the music world. Many years passed with nothing heard from him, as he lived in his tiny rented room in an S.R.O. hotel in downtown Los Angeles, working as a manual laborer, custodian, and maintenance man, and writing many volumes of handwritten poetry.

He was discovered there by a Georgia social worker and fan in 2OO2 and was given a bass by William Parker, and after only a few weeks of ferocious woodshedding, Henry emerged from his room to begin playing concerts around Los Angeles, and shortly afterwards made a triumphant return to New York City in May, 'O3 to play in the Vision Festival.

Since then, often working as a leader, Mr. Grimes has performed and / or recorded solo, playing upright bass and violin and reading his poetry, and in groups with many of today's music heroes, such as Rashied Ali, Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Dixon, Dave Douglas, Paul Dunmall, David Murray, William Parker, Marc Ribot, and Cecil Taylor.

Mr. Grimes has also held recent residencies at the Berklee College of Music, Hamilton College for the Arts, New England Conservatory, the University of Michigan, University of Gloucestershire at Cheltenham, and more; he has given a number of workshops and master classes on other major campuses, released several brilliant new recordings, made his professional debut on a second instrument (the violin) at the age of 7O, has now published the first volume of his poetry, "Signs Along the Road," and has been creating illustrations to accompany his new recordings and publications. He has received many honors in recent years, including four Meet the Composer grants, a grant from the Acadia Foundation, and a grant from WKCR's "New York Music Alive" series.

Mr. Grimes can be heard on 85 recordings on various labels, including Atlantic, Ayler Records, Blue Note, Columbia, ESP-Disk, ILK Music, Impulse!, JazzNewYork Productions, Pi Recordings, Porter Records, Prestige, Riverside, and Verve. Henry Grimes now lives and teaches in New York City.

Please listen to Henry Grimes and Rashied Ali on "Going to the Ritual" (Porter Records, 2OO8) here: http://www.porterrecords.com/id27.html; and to The Profound Sound Trio (Andrew Cyrille, Paul Dunmall, Henry Grimes as co-leaders) on "Opus de Life" (Porter Records, 2OO9) here: http://www.porterrecords.com/id53.html.
For high-resolution photos of Henry Grimes, please click on the seven links at the top of the page at http://www.henrygrimes.com/photos.html.
http://www.henrygrimes.com/


He left Juilliad to join the vibrant New York city jazz scene of the late fifties. At 22 he was playing bass for Thelonious Monk. In the early 60's he helped forge Free jazz, making music that would influence John Coltrane. at the age of 31, he disappeared. In 1984 Cadence magazine ran his obituary. Thing is, Henry Grimes wasn't dead. This is his story. The life and death and life of Henry Grimes.