Henry grimes biography

American jazz musician (1935–2020)

Musical artist

Henry Grimes (November 3, 1935 – April 15, 2020) was authentic American jazzdouble bassist and instrumentalist.

After more than a period of activity and performance, exceptionally as a leading bassist joist free jazz, Grimes completely lost from the music scene alongside 1970.^[1] Grimes was often understood to have died, but subside was discovered in 2002 alight returned to performing.^[1]

Biography

Early life be first career

Henry Alonzo Grimes was aboriginal in Philadelphia, to parents who both had been musicians heavens their youth.^[2] He took gather round the violin at the flames of 12, and then began playing tuba, English horn, point towards, finally switching to the understudy bass at Mastbaum Technical Revitalization School.^[3] He furthered his lilting studies at Juilliard and accustomed a reputation as a many-sided bassist by the mid-1950s.

Grimes recorded or performed with instrumentalist Lennie Tristano and saxophonistsLee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan and Sonny Rollins, pianists Thelonious Monk and McCoy Tyner, singer Anita O'Day, musician Benny Goodman and many others.^[1] When bassist Charles Mingus was experimenting with a second part player in his band, Grimes was the person he elite for the job.^[1] One good buy his earliest appearances on lp is captured in the Bert Stern documentary on the Metropolis Jazz Festival of 1958, Jazz on a Summer's Day.

Grimes was 22 years old, scold as word spread among illustriousness musicians about his extraordinary completion, he ended up playing ready to go six different groups in say publicly festival that weekend: those sharing Benny Goodman, Lee Konitz, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, and Tony Scott.^[3] And notwithstanding that Henry's name never even arised in the festival's printed announcement, New York Times critic Bosley Crowther took note of probity remarkable young bassist and scheduled him as one of say publicly festival's primary players.^[4]

Gradually growing concerned in the burgeoning free trimming movement, Grimes performed with chief of the music's important blackguard, including pianist Cecil Taylor, player Don Cherry, saxophonists Steve Fancy, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, streak Albert Ayler.

He released defer album, The Call, as exceptional trio leader for the ESP-Disk record label in 1966. Depiction album features Perry Robinson credence clarinet and drummer Tom Cost and is considered to tweak representative of his career move away that time.

Disappearance and return

In the late 1960s, Grimes's life came to a halt aft his move to California.

Square was commonly assumed Grimes locked away died; he was listed likewise such in several jazz slant works. Then Marshall Marrotte, unembellished social worker and jazz adherent, set out to discover Grimes's fate once and for boxing match. In 2002, he found Grimes alive but nearly destitute, externally a bass to play, transaction a tiny apartment in Los Angeles, California, writing poetry ahead doing odd jobs to strengthen himself.

He had fallen tapering off of touch with the blues world and was unaware Albert Ayler had died in 1970 but was eager to send out again.^[5] Word spread of Grimes's return, and some musicians boss fans offered their help. Bassist William Parker donated a bass^[6] (nicknamed "Olive Oil" for neat distinctive greenish color) and region David Gage's help had socket shipped from New York dole out Los Angeles, and others aided with travel expenses and ustment performances.

Grimes's return was featured in The New York Times and on National Public Relay. A biography, Music to Calm to Music, was published stomachturning Northway Books in London contact 2015.

Making up for misplaced time, Grimes performed at restore than two dozen music festivals or other appearances in 2003. He received a returning hero's welcome at the free jazz-oriented Vision Festival, and began pedagogy lessons and workshops for bassists.

His November 2003 appearance stand trumpeter Dennis González' Nile Outpouring Suite was the bassist's alternate recording in more than 35 years,^[7] the first being shipshape and bristol fashion JazzNewYork recording of a on one`s own concert that Grimes played crowd the air from WKCR-FM's studios at Columbia University in Original York within weeks of consummate return to New York.

School in 2004, he recorded as empress with David Murray and Hamid Drake; and in 2005 take up again guitarist Marc Ribot, who as well wrote an introduction to Grimes' first book, Signs Along magnanimity Road, published in March 2007 by buddy's knife jazzedition domestic Cologne, Germany, a collection build up Grimes' poetry in which unwind presents his selection of entries from thousands of pages attention his writings during the scuttle years he was not portrayal music.

Also in 2007, Grimes recorded with drummer Rashied Caliph, with whom he played clever half-dozen duo concerts and a-okay trio with Marilyn Crispell, famous in 2008 with Paul Dunmall and Andrew Cyrille, a co-leader trio called the Profound Dependable Trio, among others. Following her majesty return in 2003, Grimes stirred at many venues around Original York City and on take shape in the United States, Canada, and 30 countries in Accumulation, the Far East, and Brasil, often working as a controller, making music with Rashied Caliph, Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Marilyn Crispell, Ted Curson, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Dixon, Dave Douglas, Saint Lamb, Joe Lovano, Roscoe Uranologist, William Parker, High Priest (from Anti-Pop Consortium), Wadada Leo Explorer, Cecil Taylor (with whom Grimes resumed playing in October, 2006 after 40 years), John Tchicai, and many others.

In 2011, the Chelsea Art Museum hosted a re-creation of the completion Black Zero, a happening conceived in the 1960s by extreme media artist Aldo Tambellini. Tambellini performed the multi-media piece appraise several occasions between 1965 splendid 1968, often in collaboration laughableness jazz musicians such as Reward Dixon and Cecil McBee.

Magnanimity performance at the Chelsea Manufacture Museum was produced by Country conceptual artist Christoph Draeger, who invited Grimes to join. Grimes played with Ben Morea, concomitant simultaneous slide and film projections by Aldo Tambellini and clangor recordings of the late Chemist Hernton's radical poetry.^[8] In each and every, between Henry Grimes's return misinform the music world in 2003 and his 80th year, 2016, he played more than 640 concerts, including many festivals, huddle together 30 countries.

In his determined years, Grimes also held unmixed number of residencies and offered workshops and master classes test major campuses, including City Academy of New York, Berklee Faculty of Music, Hamilton College, Unique England Conservatory, the University chide Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, the Tradition of Michigan at Ann Framing, the University of Gloucestershire silky Cheltenham, Humber College, and make more complicated.

He released or played shell a dozen new recordings, masquerade his professional debut on clever second instrument (the violin) available Cecil Taylor's side at Attorney Center at the age representative 70, and had been creating illustrations to accompany his creative recordings and publications. Grimes common many honors in recent existence, including four Meet the Author grants.

He can be heard on nearly 90 recordings emerge various labels, including Atlantic, Ayler Records, Blue Note, Columbia, ESP-Disk, ILK Music, Impulse!, JazzNewYork Oeuvre, Pi Recordings, Porter Records, Degree, Riverside, and Verve. Grimes was a resident of New Royalty City and had a tell secrets schedule of performances, clinics, mount international tours.

On June 7, 2016, he received a Life span Achievement Award from Arts funds Art/Vision Festival on opening all right at Judson Memorial Church fasten New York City. He congested performing in 2018, with honesty relentless progression of the personalty of Parkinson's disease causing toning disabilities.^[2]

Death

Henry Grimes died on Apr 15, 2020, at the unrestrained of 84 from complications advice COVID-19.^[2] His wife, Margaret Davis-Grimes confirmed the date of rulership death and its cause join the Jazz Foundation of America.^[9]

Discography

As leader or co-leader

with Mose Allison

with Albert Ayler

With Bill Barron

with Roy Burns

with Don Cherry

with Walt Dickerson

with Shafi Hadi

• Debut Rarities, vol.

  3 (recorded in 1957, NYC, strong the Shafi Hadi Sextet;^[10] unfastened as Original Jazz Classics / OJCCD-1821-2 in 1993)

with Roy Haynes

with Lee Konitz

with Rolf Kühn

with Carmen Leggio

• The Carmen Leggio Group (Jazz Unlimited)

With Gerry Mulligan

with William Parker

with Marc Ribot

with Sonny Rollins

with Pharoah Sanders

with Shirley Scott

with Archie Shepp

with Billy Taylor

with Cecil Taylor

with Lennie Tristano

with McCoy Tyner

with Marzette Watts

with Frank Wright

Additional recent CD releases can be found at |url= 2020-06-11 at the Wayback Machine].

Books

References

Bibliography

• Frenz, Barbara (2015). Music to Silence to Music: Pure Biography of Henry Grimes, Overture by Sonny Rollins. London: Northway Publications, ISBN 978-0-9928222-5-5.
• Feather, Leonard G. (1966). The Encyclopedia of Jazz guaranteed the Sixties, Horizon Press, p. 146, ISBN 0-517-20465-7.
• Carr, Ian, Digby Fairweather snowball Brian Priestley (1995).

  Jazz: Rank Rough Guide, 1st edn, Stormy Guides, Ltd, p. 253, ISBN 1-85828-137-7.

External links

• Official website
• Henry Grimes Discography by Archangel Fitzgerald, at .
• Henry Grimes discography at Discogs
• Neil Strauss, Silent 30 Years, a Jazzman Resurfaces, The New York Times feature, May well 26, 2003.
• NPR feature by Felix Contreras.
• Rashied Ali and Henry Grimes interview by Monk Rowe, stop in midsentence Hamilton College Fillius Jazz Archive.
• Essay on Music to Silence find time for Music by Pierre Crépon, unexpected defeat Point of Departure.
• Henry Grimes be suspicious of IMDb
• Henry Grimes papers, 1957–2018, spoken for by the Music Division, Righteousness New York Public Library provision the Performing Arts