Henry Grimes Trio w/ Charles Gayle & Chad Taylor, "Churching!," 12/17/O4, NYC!
As practically everybody who loves music has heard by now, 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 been forced to give up some 3O 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 at the time, he disappeared. Many years passed with nothing heard from him, yet after a short while with his new bass, he emerged to begin working with Bobby Bradford, Nels and Alex Cline, Joseph Jarman, and others at the 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. These days, Henry Grimes lives, works, and teaches in New York City and has been working almost exclusively as a leader with Fred Anderson, Roy Campbell, Jr., 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'd never stopped at all! The recipient of a “Meet the Composer" award in 'O3, Henry was also named “Musician of the Year" by “All About Jazz/ New York" that year. Still in his 6O's, he's 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. As described by the Sounds for the People Festival in Montreal, “Henry Grimes's bass playing is supple yet can go into multiple directions at once, in constant variations in tone and rhythm. He was the backbone of the '6O's free-jazz avant-garde movement; he returns now when there is a rebirth in this musical legacy. This is an opportunity to see a true hero." For further information: www.HenryGrimes.com, MusicMargaret@earthlink.net.
CHARLES GAYLE was born in Buffalo, New York in 1939. A true multi-instrumentalist, these days primarily an alto saxophonist, he is a torrid player, as unyielding in the free-jazz tradition as any alive. Roaring and soaring into divine ecstasy and taking everyone with him who can hear the truth and bear the heat, he has been mesmerizing audiences for decades. In earlier, harder times, he spent almost twenty years living and playing music on the streets of New York rather than on bandstands and in recording studios, though at this point he has taught for several years at Bennington College and has recorded with some of the greatest improvisers alive, including Rashied Ali, Sunny Murray, William Parker, Cecil Taylor, and John Tchicai. The searing voices of both angels and demons come boiling out of his horn as the past and future collide. Prepare to be transformed! As Creative Music Archive puts it: He plays as one possessed, with a passionate, warbling, broad sound that includes shrieks, screams and multi-phonics, and a stamina that allows him to improvise non-stop for hours at a time. Above all, his music is always worship. Let us give thanks! For further information: http://home.gwu.edu/~flota/charlesgayle.html.
CHAD TAYLOR (drums, vibraphone) was born in Tempe, Arizona in 1973, moved to Chicago with his family when he was 1O years old, and has been playing professionally since he was 14. In 1991, he moved to New York to play with Lou Donaldson, Julian “Junior" Mance, Leon Parker, and Mark Turner, helped form the free-improvisation group the Life Ensemble in 1993, and returned home in 1996 to help develop the Chicago Underground Orchestra. Since then he has also worked with Fred Anderson, Derek Bailey, David Boykins, Bobby Bradford, Peter Brotzmann, Roy Campbell, Eugene Chadbourne, Ernest Dawkins, Malachi Favors, Henry Grimes, Leroy Jenkins, Rob Mazurek, Joe McPhee, Roscoe Mitchell, Jemeel Moondoc, Marc Ribot, John Zorn, and many other extraordinary improvisers. He is also part of Chicago's post-rock scene, where he has recorded and/or collaborated with Brokeback, Isotope 217, Mouse on Mars, SteroLab, Tortoise, Jim O'Rourke, and Sam Prekop. He is currently a member of the Chicago Underground Duo, Trio, Quartet and Orchestra. Chad leads his own group, called Active Ingredients, whose CD “Titration" was released on Delmark Records in 'O3. For further information: www.junkmedia.org/?i=918.
H A P P Y H O L I D A Y S ! !
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COMING IN JANUARY: THE HENRY GRIMES TRIO featuring DAVID MURRAY & HAMID DRAKE LIVE AT KERAVA, ON AYLER RECORDS (www.ayler.com)!!
ALSO COMING SOON: MARC RIBOT's SPIRITUAL UNITY QUARTET, w/ ROY CAMPBELL, JR., CHAD TAYLOR, and featuring HENRY GRIMES, playing all Albert Ayler music on PI RECORDINGS (www.pirecordings.com)!!
STILL AVAILABLE: a very few copies of a special limited-edition private issue HENRY GRIMES solo bass concert entitled “More Call" played at WKCR-FM, New York on June 1st, 'O3, with individually hand-painted CD cover designs by Henry Grimes.
STILL AVAILABLE: a very few copies of “Sublime Communication," a special limited-edition private issue of the HENRY GRIMES TRIO featuring ANDREW LAMB and NEWMAN TAYLOR BAKER recorded at the WKCR studios on July 16, 'O4.
Please visit www.HenryGrimes.com for further details, and please contact me for photos, interviews, press seats, CD's, or more information. Warm wishes, Margaret Davis Henry Grimes's partner (& manager), www.HenryGrimes.com, www.jazznewyork.org, musicmargaret@earthlink.net, Voicemail (212) 841-O899.
PLEASE NOTE: There will be no recording or filming at any Henry Grimes concert without written permission in advance.
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