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Date: 4:27:44 P.M., February 13, 2004 Name: Margaret Davis Email address: musicmargaret@earthlink.net Comments: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE! Contact: Margaret Davis, personal assistant to Henry Grimes, (212) 841-O899, MusicMargaret@earthlink.net << >> < >> << >> << >> << >> "Those having torches will pass them on to others," said Plato ... or in the world of musical improvisers today ... they share them! S H A R I N G T H E T O R C H Henry Grimes and William Parker duets for Malachi Favors Maghostut Monday, February 16, 2OO4 University of Pennsylvania Houston Hall in Perelman Quad 3417 Spruce St. at 34th St. Philadelphia, PA 8 p.m., free! (215) 898-4636, -6533, -4444 www.arsnovaworkshop.com, www.upenn.edu An Ars Nova Workshop presentation in the Philadelphia Jazz Legacy series << >> << >> << >> < < >> << >> There's a great new musician among us. He's new, but he has tremendous musical knowledge, unsurpassed credentials, and the highest levels of artistry at his command. Who can this be? Master bassist HENRY GRIMES, missing from the music world since the late '6O's, has made an unprecedented comeback after receiving the gift of a bass (a green one called Olive Oil!) from William Parker in December, 'O2 to replace the instrument Henry had given up some 2O years earlier. Between the mid-'5O's and the mid-'6O's, the Philadelphia-born, Juilliard-educated Henry Grimes played brilliantly on some 5O albums with an enormous range of musicians, including Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus (yes, Charles Mingus), Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Murray, Perry Robinson, Sonny Rollins, Roswell Rudd, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Charles Tyler, McCoy Tyner, Rev. Frank Wright, and many more ... and then one day, for reasons largely related to troubles in the music world in those days, he walked away. Many years passed with nothing heard from the great Henry Grimes, yet after a very short while with his new bass, he emerged to begin working with Bobby Bradford, Nels and Alex Cline, Joseph Jarman, and others at Billy Higgins's World Stage, the Howling Monk, the Jazz Bakery, and Schindler House in the Los Angeles area. On his triumphant return to New York City in May, Henry Grimes played as special guest on two nights of the six-night Vision Festival, gave live concerts and lengthy interviews on the air daily during a five-day WKCR Henry Grimes Radio Festival, and offered a bass clinic before 5O New York-area bassists who haven't stopped talking about him since. He followed this with three virtually sold-out nights at Iridium in New York City leading his own band. In New York, Henry Grimes has been working for the first time with Rob Brown, Roy Campbell, Jr., Andrew Cyrille, Sabir Mateen, William Parker, Marc Ribot, Warren Smith, and others. He's played at the Vermont Jazz Center and Harvard University and toured six cities in Italy and one in Slovenia in early December, 'O3, and plans in 'O4 include tours and festivals in Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, and more. To the astonishment and joy of all, the man is playing at the very height of his artistic powers (or indeed anyone's), just as though he had never stopped at all! Still in his sixties, he's healthy and strong, and his gentle, humble bearing and courageous life story have inspired all those privileged to know him, hear him, or play music with him. For further information about Henry Grimes: www.HenryGrimes.com, Musicmargaret@earthlink.net , Voicemail (212) 841-O899. << >> << >> << >> < <>> << >> When Henry Grimes wanted to invite a fellow musician to play duets with him in Philadelphia, whom should he call but the aforesaid WILLIAM PARKER? Termed "the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time" by "The Village Voice," Mr. Parker (who plays acoustic bass and also African stringed instruments, Eastern horns, trumpet, percussion) has commanded a unique degree of respect from fellow musicians throughout his career. He was born in the Bronx in 1952, as a youngster studied with Richard Davis, Jimmy Garrison, Milt Hinton, and Wilbur Ware, and also remembers when he was about 12 years old being stunned to hear Henry Grimes playing bass in a bowling alley in the Bronx! After entering the New York music world at the age of 2O, Mr. Parker quickly became bassist of choice among his peers and soon was invited to play with older, established musicians such as Ed Blackwell, Don Cherry, Bill Dixon, Milford Graves, Billy Higgins, and Sunny Murray. William's first recording was the classic Frank Lowe/ Joseph Jarman album "Black Beings" (ESP, '73). He was bassist with the Cecil Taylor Unit from 198O until the early '9O's and has also worked with Rashied Ali, Derek Bailey, Billy Bang, Peter Brötzmann, Jerome Cooper, Charles Gayle, William Hooker, Clifford Jordan, Jimmy Lyons, Joe McPhee, Roscoe Mitchell, Jemeel Moondoc, Charles Tyler, David S. Ware, Philip Wilson, John Zorn, and hundreds (possibly thousands) more. From the very beginnings of his musical career, Mr. Parker has been prolific, composing music for almost all his groups. His compositional skills span a wide range, comprising operas, oratorios, ballets, scores, and soliloquies for solo instruments, as he has extensively explored diverse concepts in instrumentation for large and small ensembles, as well as for solo bass. He has successfully led and toured with his groups In Order to Survive and the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, to worldwide critical and popular acclaim. In his "Village Voice" selections of the top 2O recordings of 'O2, Gary Giddins accurately described William Parker's "Mingusian exultation and might." A Fire in the Valley Festival brochure entry on William Parker reads, "His bass strings often sound as though they're connected directly to the earth's molten core. Listening to him play can make you feel as though you've visited the liquid center of a very hot planet. Let the vibrations of his strings transmute your soul to diamonds." A Roulette listing reads, "He has succeeded in locking his music, idealism, and humanity into a groove." For further information about William Parker: www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/arts/music/26BLUM.html; www.aumfidelity.com/home.htm; www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=383; centeringmusic@earthlink.net. << >> << >> << >> << >> << >> For further information about Malachi Favors Maghostut: www.aacmchicago.org www.artensembleofchicago.com www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/chi-0402030209feb03,1,1004767.story?c oll=chi-newsobituaries-hed (all one continuous link). << >> << >> << >> << >> << >> /mjd 2/O4 << >> << >> << >> << >> << >> |
Date: 5:20:38 P.M., February 13, 2004 Name: Phil Email address: phil-at-masstransfer-dot-net Comments: You know, I think I might just go to this. Thanks! I wonder if William Parker will remember me? We met once, briefly, several years back... |
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