Topic: Henry Grimes
Vital indie-jazz booker Search & Restore, one of a few entities responsible for galvanizing the city's improvised-music scene over the past few years, stages an evening of free-form duos to benefit its future endeavors.
When John Zorn, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and T-Bone Burnett all depend on the same guitarist, you know that player has something special.
The bombastic, spotlight-grabbing drummer (Buddy Rich, Art Blakey) is a familiar jazz trope, and in its own way, so is the inverse, exemplified by Paul Motian, Tyshawn Sorey and others who take pains to blend into and complement ensembles. Virginia-born percussionist Newman ...
As the '60s free-jazz revolution died down, its participants encountered myriad hardships. A third group simply went AWOL; the most famous example is undoubtedly Henry Grimes, a highly in-demand bassist who dropped out of sight around 1970 and wasn't spotted again ...
