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Summer, 'O8
We have the great news that Henry ’s duo recording with Rashied Ali called “Going to the Ritual,” complete with Henry Grimes booklet illustrations and liner notes by the wonderful writer Marc Medwin, will be released on Porter Records in July! (http://www.porterrecords.com).
And Henry's amazing non-stop three-hour solo bass and violin session for ILK Music (Denmark) that took place in March will result in another great new release (or two!) sometime around November (http://www.ilkmusic.com).
Also, Roswell Rudd's Trombone Shout Band, featuring the trombones of Roswell, Steve Swell, and Deborah Weisz, bass and violin of Henry Grimes, tuba of Bob Stewart, and drums of Barry Altschul, recorded in May, so that will be another addition to Henry's discography!
Sadly, we note that ESP Disk has again re-released Henry Grimes's classic recording "The Call" (ESP #1026, 1965) to much fanfare without making any arrangements whatsoever to pay Henry a penny. Bernard Stollman of ESP owes Henry more than 4O years of royalties for sales of this recording and only paid him $1O to record it in the first place, and yes, we have a copy of Henry's original contract from 1965. Attorneys, please contact musicmargaret [@] earthlink.net regarding this, because we could use some legal help in this regard! Fans, if you feel you must buy this re-release, please contact musicmargaret [@] earthlink.net to arrange to send Henry Grimes some money for your purchase. Thank you.
Meanwhile, life and music go on.
Henry Grimes concerts coming up next:
Jason Hwang & Henry Grimes, Billy Bang conducting,
Vision Festival 'O7, NYC, photo by Mark Sheldon,
http://marksheldonphotography.com
Thursday, July 24th, 'O8: Jason Hwang's Spontaneous River, a convergence of New York City string improvisers including Henry Grimes, at the Living Theatre, 21 Clinton St. betw. Houston & Stanton St's, Manhattan (NYC), 1O:3O p.m., 212-792-8O5O, http://www.livingtheatre.org, http://www.rucma.org, livingtheatreorg@yahoo.com, info@visionfestival.org. Take Houston St. bus #M-21, Ave. B bus M-9, F train to Delancey St., or J/ M/ Z train to Essex St.
Symphony for Improvisers Double Quartet,
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC,
'O6,
photocollage by Enid Farber, www.farberfoto.com
Sunday, August 24th: Symphony for Improvisers Double Quartet (Dave Douglas w/ J.D. Allen, Henry Grimes, and Andrew Cyrille; and Roy Campbell, Jr. w/ Mixashawn, Hilliard Greene, and Hamid Drake), music of Don Cherry, at the main stage, Saalfelden Congress Centre, Jazzfestival Saalfelden, Austria, phone +43 (O)6582 75999, http://www.jazzsaalfelden.com/2008, office@jazzsaalfelden.at. This festival runs from August 21st to August 24th (31 concerts on 7 stages in 4 days) and also includes groups led by Dave Holland, Wadada Leo Smith, Craig Taborn, and many more.
Thursday, August 28th: Symphony for Improvisers Double Quartet (Dave Douglas w/ J.D. Allen, Henry Grimes, and Andrew Cyrille; and Roy Campbell, Jr. w/ Mixashawn, Hilliard Greene, and Hamid Drake), music of Don Cherry at Piazza del Nuraghe, Sant’Anna Arresi, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, phone +39 O781 9661O2 or -966861, http://www.santannarresijazz.it/festivalb.html, puntagiara@santannarresijazz.it, amministrazione@santannarresijazz.it. This great festival runs from August 28th to September 6th this year, is dedicated to Don Cherry, and also includes Peter Apfelbaum, Karl Berger, Daniel Carter, Christian Cherry, David Ornette Cherry, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Neneh Cherry, Ernest Dawkins, Trilok Gurtu, Fareed Haque, Graham Haynes, Mark Helias, Sabir Mateen, Joe McPhee, Louis Moholo & Minafric Orchestra, Lawrence "Butch" Morris, William Parker, Ingrid Sertso, Warren Smith, Bob Stewart, Chad Taylor, Keith Tippett, Julie Tippetts, Ken Vandermark, Nana Vasconcelos, Carlos Ward, Greg Ward, Corey Wilkes, Kahil el’Zabar, and many more...
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Recent Events
(the past six months)
Feb. 1st: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity, w/ Roy Campbell, Jr. & Chad Taylor and featuring Henry Grimes, Sardinin USF, Bergen, Norway;
Feb. 2nd: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity, w/ Roy Campbell, Jr. & Chad Taylor and featuring Henry Grimes, workshop and concert at Hall Toll, Stavanger, Norway;
Feb. 3rd: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity, w/ Roy Campbell, Jr. & Chad Taylor and featuring Henry Grimes, Copenhagen Jazz House, Denmark;
Feb. 5th: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity, w/ Roy Campbell, Jr. & Chad Taylor and featuring Henry Grimes, Is Sanat Arts & Culture Center, Istanbul, Turkey;
Feb. 7th: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity, w/ Roy Campbell, Jr. & Chad Taylor and featuring Henry Grimes, Moods in Schiffbau, Zurich, Switzerland;
Feb. 8th: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity, w/ Roy Campbell, Jr. & Chad Taylor and featuring Henry Grimes, Pole Sud, Strasbourg, France;
Feb. 9th: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity, w/ Roy Campbell, Jr. & Chad Taylor and featuring Henry Grimes, Cite de la Musique, Paris, France;
March 22nd: Henry Grimes solo recording session (on bass and violin) for the ILK (Independent Label Kobenhavn) Music label (Denmark), a virtually non-stop 3-hour session at Peter Karl's studio, Park Slope, Brooklyn (www.ilkmusic.com);
April 2nd: Symphony for Improvisers Double Quartet, music of Don Cherry, w/ Dave Douglas, J.D. Allen, Henry Grimes, Andrew Cyrille and Roy Campbell, Jr., Mixashawn, Hilliard Greene, and Hamid Drake, in the Banlieues Bleues Festival at Salle des Fetes de la Mairie de Montreuil (Paris), France;
April 11th: Nathaniel Mackey and Henry Grimes, "Bass Cathedral," CUE Art Foundation, New York City;
April 14th-21st: Webcast of April 2nd Symphony for Improvisers Double Quartet concert over www.radiofrance.fr;
May 16th: Oluyemi Thomas, Henry Grimes, & Ijeoma Thomas, Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque, New Mexico;
May 17th: Oluyemi Thomas, Henry Grimes, & Ijeoma Thomas, College of Santa Fe, New Mexico;
May 28th: Roswell Rudd's Trombone Shout Band, w/ Steve Swell, Deborah Weisz, Bob Stewart, Henry Grimes, and Barry Altschul, plus community and student musicians, Rondout Valley High School, Accord, New York;
May 29th: Roswell Rudd's Trombone Shout Band (as above), recording session;
May 3Oth: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity, w/ Roy Campbell, Jr. & Chad Taylor and featuring Henry Grimes, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, New York;
June 1st: Julie Patton's "Ghost of a Chance Defense Fun(d) Band," the Stone, New York City;
June 11th: cable and Webcast of highlights from the last two Vision Festivals featured on "Some Real Music" on Time Warner Cable, RCN cable, and worldwide on the Web at mnn.org, including a performance of Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity w/ Roy Campbell, Jr., Chad Taylor, and featuring Henry Grimes;
June 13th: Sabir Mateen / Henry Grimes Quartet w/ Rasul Siddik & John Betsch, Vision Festival, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York City;
June 14th: Paul Dunmall / Henry Grimes / Andrew Cyrille, Vision Festival, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York City...