Event Schedule

 

Grimes Times !! Henry Grimes Times !!

URGENT NOTICE!! Tour driver / music lover needed from August 28th through September 18th, 2O1O, with own van in great condition and big enough to hold three persons (including driver) plus one acoustic bass 8O" high x 26" at her widest point (hips) x 18" deep, plus violin, amp, luggage, boxes of CD's, etc. Must be excellent, careful driver with clean license, non-smoking, non-drinking when on the job, drug-free, helpful, easy to get along with, and it would be really great if (s)he loves the music. We can pay a reasonable weekly driver's fee plus all road expenses plus rooms and meals, and there will be free admission to two major jazz festivals and all Henry's concerts / readings along the way, and 11 days during the tour with little or no driving. The tour will be relaxed but intense! We leave from NYC and go to Baltimore, Chicago, Ontario, Michigan, Buffalo, with 1O stops along the way for performances, master classes, and an on-air radio interview / concert, and back to NYC. Please reply to grimestimes [@] earthlink.net or leave a message at 212-841-O899. Thanks!


July, '1O

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Henry Grimes in Brooklyn Bridge Park,
7/1/1O, photo by Tom van den Bout


Henry Covers the Waterfront!


* Thursday, July 1st: Marathon celebration of Walt Whitman's poetry, a spectacular location at the end of Pier 1, Harbor View Lawn, Brooklyn Bridge Park, 36O Furman St. (rain location the Tobacco Warehouse), Brooklyn, 5 p.m. to midnight, many participants, including Henry Grimes playing double-bass and violin (around 6:3O p.m.), brooklynbridgeparknyc, interactive-map, issueprojectroom, issueprojectroom/event, directions hopstop, <Email>;







* Friday, July 23rd, sets at 8 & 1O p.m: Henry Grimes / Andrew Lamb / Andrew Cyrille, the Stone, northwest corner of Ave. C and 2nd St., Manhattan, thestonenyc, no phone, <Email>, directions hopstop.



Coming up soon:

 


Meredith Monk, photo by Sidney Chen


* Meredith Monk remix project w/ D.J. Spooky and an all-star assemblage!


* Tours developing, August through October, including Chicago Jazz Festival after-sets at the great Fred Anderson's Velvet Lounge; Guelph Jazz Festival (Ontario); Angel City Jazz Festival (Los Angeles) and more... details soon!

 


Henry Grimes, NYC, 2O1O, photo by Brendan Bannon

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... and much more to follow!



 


Recent events (the past 6 months)



Feb. 25th: Memorial celebration for Sirone (Norris Jones), Henry Grimes in duo w/ Ramsey Ameen and in quartet w/ Dave Burrell, Ted Daniel, and Bobby Kapp; others playing and / or speaking included Veronika Nowag-Jones, drummer Muhammad Ali (Rashied's brother), Andrew Barker, Roy Campbell, Jr., Joe Chonto, Lawrence Clark, Jerome Cooper, Ted Daniel, Kali Fasteau, Hilliard Greene, Jason Hwang, Sabir Mateen, Reggie Nicholson, Adam Roberts, Charles Waters, Michael Wimberly, & others, St. Peter's Church, NYC;

March 3rd: Henry Grimes w/ Cooper-Moore & Joe McPhee + dancers, Vision Collaborations series, 14th St. Y, NYC;

March 16th: Carmen Staaf Trio w/ Kendall Eddy & Austin McMahon + special guest Henry Grimes, Puppets Jazz, Brooklyn, NY;

April 12th: Marc Ribot Trio w/ Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Rose Live Music, Brooklyn, NY;

April 17th*: Henry Grimes solo and w/ Malcolm Braff, Cully (Switzerland) Jazz Festival;

April 18th*: Henry Grimes w/ Anthony Coleman & Joey Baron, La Salle Pleyel, Paris, France;

* (These were to be Marc Ribot Trio dates, but due to the Icelandic volcano, Marc and Chad were unable to fly over)

Also April 21st: Ron Sweetman's 2-hr. special Henry Grimes profile on CKCU-FM, Ottawa, Canada;

April 22nd: Marc Ribot Trio w/ Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo, Norway;

April 23rd: Marc Ribot Trio w/ Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Stary Browar, Slodownia, Poznan, Poland;

April 24th: Marc Ribot Trio w/ Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Treibhaus, Innsbruck, Austria;

April 26th: Marc Ribot Trio w/ Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Jazzit Musik Club, Salzburg, Austria;

April 27th: Marc Ribot Trio w/ Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy;

April 28th: Marc Ribot Trio w/ Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Teatro Vittoria, Torino (Turin), Italy;

April 29th: Marc Ribot Trio w/ Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Speilboden, Dornbirn, Austria;

April 3Oth: Marc Ribot Trio w/ Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Jazz Festival Basel, Basel City Casino / Stadtcasino Basel, Switzerland;

May 12th: Henry Grimes read his poetry and played violin in the Jazz 'n' Poetry series at Copenhagen JazzHouse (also the great Danish hero Tine Bryld, hosted by Claus Hoxbroe), Denmark;

May 14th: Henry Grimes played double-bass and violin and read his poetry in the Danish Sound + Literature Festival, Aarhus, Denmark;

May 15th: Henry Grimes played double-bass and violin and read his poetry at Byggeriets Hus, Copenhagen (Frederiksberg), Denmark;

NOTE: During this tour, Henry Grimes also sat in at an all-night session with Kresten Osgood, Jeff "Tain" Watts, and others at the Little Theatre in Chirstiania, Copenhagen, as well as with a Swedish Dixieland band at Krudttonden in Osterbro, Copenhagen, and also played violin with an improvisation class and taught a private lesson at Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium, Holmen, Copenhagen;

June 24th: Henry Grimes in Herbie Hancock tribute led by Jeff "Tain" Watts at City Winery (part of the CareFusion Jazz Festival), NYC...