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Chris Searle admires Barbara Frenz’s Music to Silence to Music: A Biography of Henry Grimes (Northway Publications, £20)
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MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
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SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
JAZZ is a music of stories and the story of the pioneering free bassist Henry Grimes defies all expectations and predictabilities, just like his astonishing musicianship.
In this biography, Swiss jazz historian Barbara Frenz divides Grimes’s life into three dramatic phases. In his twenties, he became one of the prime bassists of his era after a Philadelphia boyhood when he was a school companion of Archie Shepp, Lee Morgan and Ted Curson.
He played and recorded with Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry and Sonny Rollins — who said of him that “he has always been a serious, intense and fearless musician,” — and was heralded as one of the founders of the avant-garde in jazz with his 1965 album The Call considered as one of his most potent achievements.
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