Posted in Books, Jazz Notes on Jul 9th, 2007
Back in the early 1990s, when I was in the first throes of becoming a passionate jazzhead, a friend made me a mix tape called “Henry Grimes, Where Are You?” He knew of my obsession with the missing bassist, who appeared on many classic 1960s jazz recordings and worked with everybody from Benny Goodman and Gerry Mulligan to Cecil Taylor and Albert Ayler before vanishing in the late 1960s–presumably dead, according…
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Posted in Shows on Dec 10th, 2005
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Bassist Henry Grimes played with everybody from Benny Goodman to Albert Ayler and appeared on some of the 1960s’ most significant jazz recordings before vanishing for more than 30 years. Long rumored to be dead, he was discovered living in Los Angeles in 2002. William Parker, a bassist who’d been strongly influenced by Grimes’ work, donated an instrument to Grimes, who began to play again…
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