Event Schedule

 

January, 'O9


Monday, January 19th, ‘O9: Release date for “Henry Grimes Solo,” the double-CD set on the ILK Music label, www.ilkmusic.com! Please see Henry’s “Purchase CD’s and Books” page for more information
(henrygrimes.com/CDs-books.html,
or click on the link at the upper left-hand side of your screen just under Henry's photo).

Thursday, January 22nd, 6 p.m: Deep Tones for Peace fundraiser at the United Nations. Deep Tones for Peace is an international internet music performance for peace in the Middle East, to take place on Saturday, April 25th, ‘O9 in Jerusalem and New York and to be streamed worldwide, performed simultaneously by 2O internationally recognized bassists gathered in both cities. Project coordinators are Mark Dresser, Sarah Weaver, Jean-Claude Jones, Barre Phillips, and Suzanne Thorpe; affiliate organizations are World Association of Former United Nations Internes and Fellows, International Society for Improvised Music, International Society of Bassists, Electronic Music Foundation, and Kadima Collective. Deep Tones for Peace will be played simultaneously on April 25th by Thierry Barbe (from France), Ora Boazsson (Israel), Han Han Cho (Taiwan), Mark Dresser (USA), Ken Filiano (USA), Irina-Kalina Goudeva (Bulgaria/ Denmark), Henry Grimes (USA), Mark Helias (USA), J.C. Jones (Israel), Michael Klinghoffer (Israel), Rob Nairn (Australia), Chi Chi Nwanoku (UK), William Parker (USA), Barre Phillips (USA/France), David Phillips (USA), Bertram Turetzky (USA), and Sarah Weaver (USA). Info: Sarah Weaver, sarah@isimprov.org. Tax-deductible donations to help with the costs of this project can be made online at isimprov.org or by mail: Deep Tones for Peace, c/o International Society for Improvised Music, P.O. Box 16O3, Ann Arbor MI 481O6.

 


Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali, WKCR studios, NYC,
'O7, photo by Michael Lowe as it appears on their CD
"Going to the Ritual" on Porter Records


Thursday-Saturday, January 29th-31st: Henry Grimes residency w/ Rashied Ali, Hamilton College of Performing Arts, 198 College Hill Rd., Clinton, NY, including:
Thursday, January 29th: master class with students (4-6 pm);
Friday, January 3Oth: interviews with jazz archivist, and dinner with performing arts donors/ community leaders/ music faculty;
Saturday, January 31st: Henry Grimes and Rashied Ali, concert at 8 pm at Fillius Events Barn, tickets hamiltonpa.org/cart/15, (open to the public, but space is limited).
Directions hamiltonpa.org/info (Clinton is about 25O miles northwest of New York City, near Utica and Syracuse). Info: 315-859-4331 or -4261, hamiltonpa.org, hamiltonpa.org/music ...

... and much more to follow!



 


Recent events (the past 6 months)

 

July 24th, 'O8: Jason Hwang's Spontaneous River, w/ 3O string improvisers including Henry Grimes (playing violin!) and 1 drummer, the Living Theatre, New York City (partially funded by the Acadia Foundation);

August 9th: Hal Willner's Bill Withers celebration, w/ (alphabetically) Rob Berger, Sarah Bernstein, Steven Bernstein (conductor/ musical director), Charles Burnham, Cornell Dupree, Melanie Dyer, Melvin Gibbs, Corey Glover, Henry Grimes, Jeff Haynes, Nona Hendryx, Marika Hughes, Jim James, Angelique Kidjo, J.T. Lewis, Dana Lyn, Eric Mingus, Janine Nichols, Christine Ohlman, the Persuasions (Jimmy Hayes, Reggie Moore, Joe Russell, Ray Sanders, & Jayotis Washington), Lenny Pickett, Brandon Ross, Sandra St. Victor, Jane Scarpantoni, Jared Scharff, the Swell Season, Howard Tate, James Blood Ulmer, Bill Withers himself, and Kori Withers (Bill's daughter), all at Celebrate Brooklyn Festival at Prospect Park bandshell, Brooklyn;

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 Saalfelden Congress Centre, Jazzfestival Saalfelden, Austria;

August 28th: Symphony for Improvisers Double Quartet (as above), music of Don Cherry at the Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz Festival, Sardinia, Italy;

August 3Oth & 31st: Fred Anderson, Kidd Jordan, Harrison Bankhead, & Isaiah Spencer + special guest Henry Grimes, at Fred Anderson's Velvet Lounge, Chicago, IL;

September 13th: Roswell Rudd's Trombone Tribe, w/ Barry Altschul, Joe Daley, Henry Grimes, Steve Swell, & Deborah Weisz, Lake George (NY) Jazz Festival;

September 15th: Henry Grimes: solo bass, violin, & poetry, Carnegie Mellon U., College of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh, PA;

September 16th: Henry Grimes: solo bass, violin, & poetry (1st set), w/ Faruq Z. Bey, Skeeter Shelton, & Steve Rush (2nd set), Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, MI;

September 17th: Henry Grimes's Chicago, w/ Fred Anderson, Douglas Ewart, and Avreeayl Ra, at Fred Anderson’s Velvet Lounge, Chicago, IL;

September 18th: Henry Grimes (solo bass, violin, poetry, & spell-casting), Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio;

(Thanks to Tony Leva for making the September tour possible!)

October 14th: Marc Ribot Trio featuring Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Le Poisson Rouge (formerly the Village Gate), NYC;

October 23rd: Marc Ribot Trio featuring Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Teatro Grazia Deledda, Paulilatino (Oristano), Sardinia, Italy;

October 24th: Marc Ribot Trio featuring Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Teatro Comunale, Cormons (Gorizia), Italy;

October 25th: Marc Ribot Trio featuring Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Klub Uljanic, Pula, Croatia;

October 27th: Marc Ribot Trio featuring Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Avant Music Festival at Firlej Music Club, Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland (Matthew Shipp & Kostas New Programm also played that night);

October 28th: Marc Ribot Trio featuring Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Jazz & Beyond series at Upper Silesian Cultural Center, Katowice, Poland;

October 29th: Marc Ribot Trio featuring Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, De Singel Internationale, Antwerp[en], Belgium;

October 3Oth: Marc Ribot Trio featuring Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Maison de la Cuture de Grenoble (MC2), France;

October 31st: Marc Ribot Trio featuring Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Salzburger JazzHerbst Festival, Salzburg, Austria (this festival also included Dave Douglas, Amina Claudine Myers, & many more);

November 1st: Marc Ribot Trio featuring Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Porgy & Bess Club, Vienna, Austria;

November 2nd & 3rd: Henry Grimes, special guest w/ Josh Abrams, Martin Brandlmayer, Alex Doerner, Peter Evans, Christof Kurzmann, Clayton Thomas, Ken Vandermark, et al., at Ausland, Berlin, Germany;

November 8th: Roswell Rudd w/ Barry Altschul, Henry Grimes, Bob Stewart, Steve Swell, & Deborah Weisz, at Haus der Berliner, Jazzfest Berlin, Germany;

November 9th: Roswell Rudd w/ Barry Altschul, Henry Grimes, Bob Stewart, Steve Swell, & Deborah Weisz, at Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands;

November 11th: Henry Grimes w/ Pierre Dorge & Kresten Osgood, at Stengade 3O, Copenhagen, Denmark;

November 12th: Henry Grimes w/ Pierre Dorge & Kresten Osgood, at Huset's Cafe, Aalborg, Denmark;

December 11th: Henry Grimes w/ Douglas Ewart & Inventions (Adegoke Steve Colson, Craig Harris, & Reggie Nicholson), at Roulette, New York City;

December 15th: Gala benefit for the Vision Festival / Arts for Art people to purchase a building to house an Innovative Arts Center, at Angel Orensanz Center, New York City, performances by Yerba Buena, William Parker's Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield, and Greg Tate's Burnt Sugar w/ special guest Henry Grimes;

December 26th,'O8: Greg Tate's Burnt Sugar, the Arkestra Chamber, w/ special guest Henry Grimes, at Temple M, Village of Harlem (New York)...