Legendary Avant-Jazz Bassist HENRY GRIMES, Mon Aug 30 @ Thunderbird Cafe
Announcing a great last-minute addition to the avantgarde music schedule. Legendary avant-jazz bassist HENRY GRIMES
will be performing on solo bass and violin, and reading poetry
from his new book, this upcoming Monday. He has been here
three previous times since his re-emergence from obscurity
(at CMU, Modern Formations, and the Brew House).
Monday August 30 8 pm 21+ $16 advance/$20 door
Thunderbird Cafe, 4023 Butler St., Lawrenceville
HENRY GRIMES (bass, violin, poetry)
http://www.henrygrimes.com
with special guests Ben Opie and Edgar-Um
Tickets on sale now at Paul’s CDs in Bloomfield, and
online at http://www.thunderbirdcafe.net
HENRY GRIMES 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 came up with great R&B / soul musicians, but drawn to jazz, he went on to play, tour, and record with Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Murray, Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor,
and McCoy Tyner. Since re-emerging on the scene at Vision Festival, he has played with Rashied Ali, Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Dixon, Dave Douglas, David Murray, William Parker, Marc Ribot, and Cecil Taylor, and held residencies at Berklee, New England
Conservatory, and the University of Michigan, while receiving several Meet The Composer grants. He also plays the violin and has published a volume of poetry. He can be heard on 85 recordings on labels such as Atlantic, Blue Note, Columbia, ESP-Disk, Impulse!, Pi Recordings, Prestige, Riverside, and Verve. Henry Grimes now lives and teaches in New York City.