"Miraculously resurgent bassist, violinist and poet Henry Grimes waxes ecstatic
with an intensely promising threesome, featuring Dave Burrell at the piano
and Tyshawn Sorey on drums." ~ "Time Out New York"
Also listed as critics' pick in "The New York Times" and "The New Yorker" Magazine this week!
WHO: THE HENRY GRIMES TRIO, with HENRY GRIMES (leader, upright bass, violin, poetry), DAVE BURRELL (piano), and TYSHAWN SOREY (drums, percussion)
WHAT: Trio concert and poetry reading
WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 27th, 2012, 8 p.m. promptly (ANTHONY COLEMAN follows at 10 p.m.)
WHERE: The Stone, northwest corner of Ave. C and 2nd St., Manhattan (NYC). Be careful not to buzz right past the Stone, because there's no big bright marquee or canopy or neon sign or anything like that, just a set of very small letters reading "the stone" on the door.
HOW MUCH: $20 at the door (no advance sales, so get there early)
WEB SITE: <http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php>
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: From Manhattan, take any subway or bus to 14th St., then the 9, 14A, or 14D bus on 14th St. going east and south to Houston St. Or take any subway or bus to 14th St., then the L train toward Brooklyn to the 2nd Ave. stop (last stop in Manhattan), and then the 9, 14A, or 14D bus going east on 14th St. and south to Houston St.
HIGH-RESOLUTION PHOTOS / MORE INFORMATION: 212-841-0899, grimestimes@earthlink.net
MUSICIANS' BIOS:
In the late '50s and throughout the '60s, after receiving his music education at the Mastbaum School in Philadelphia and at the Juilliard School in New York City, HENRY GRIMES played acoustic bass with many master jazz musicians of that era, including Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, and McCoy Tyner. Sadly, a trip to the West Coast to work with Al Jarreau and Jon Hendricks went awry, leaving Henry in downtown Los Angeles at the end of the '60s with a broken bass he couldn't pay to repair, so he sold it for a small sum and faded away from the music world. He was discovered there by a Georgia social worker and fan in 2002 and was given a bass by William Parker, and after only a few weeks of ferocious woodshedding, Henry emerged from his little room to begin playing concerts around Los Angeles, and made a triumphant return to New York City in May, 'O3 to play in the Vision Festival. Since then, Henry Grimes has played nearly 500 concerts (including many festivals), touring throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Middle East and Far East, playing and recording with many of this decade's music heroes, such as Rashied Ali, Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Dixon, Dave Douglas, Edward "Kidd" Jordan, Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray, Zim Ngqawana, William Parker, Marc Ribot, Wadada Leo Smith, and again, Cecil Taylor. Henry made his professional debut on a second instrument (the violin) at the age of 70, has seen the publication of the first volume of his poetry, "Signs Along the Road," and creates illustrations to accompany his new recordings and publications. He has received many honors in recent years, including four Meet the Composer grants and a grant from the Acadia Foundation. He has also held a number of recent residencies and offered workshops and master classes on major campuses, including Berklee College of Music, Buffalo Academy, CalArts, Hamilton College of Performing Arts, Humber College, Mills College, New England Conservatory, the University of Gloucestershire at Cheltenham, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and several more. Henry can be heard on 85 recordings, including a dozen recent ones, on various labels (Atlantic, Ayler Records, Blue Note, Columbia, ESP-Disk, ILK Music, Impulse!, JazzNewYork Productions, Pi Recordings, Porter Records, Prestige, Riverside, Verve, etc.). He has been a permanent resident of New York City since 2003. http://henrygrimes.com
After majoring in music at the University of Hawaii and graduating from the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1965, with degrees in composition / arranging and performance, pianist DAVE BURRELL moved to New York City, quickly establishing himself as a most innovative and original musician, collaborating with emerging leaders in the revolutionary avant-jazz music of the '60s, and joining the groups of saxophonists Marion Brown, Pharoah Sanders, and Archie Shepp. A pianist of singular stature, Dave's dynamic compositions, with deep blues and gospel roots, recall the tradition of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, James P. Johnson, and Jelly Roll Morton, as well as "avant-garde" composers such as John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk. Mr. Burrell has written an original film score for Oscar Micheaux's 1925 silent film "Body and Soul," as well as music for jazz opera, dance drama, radio and television features, and more. As Musician-In-Residence at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, Dave was commissioned to write music for "Look Again: African-American History is American History" in 2007, for "Syllables of the Poetry of Marianne Moore" played in duo with bassist Michael Formanek, and for "Western Extension of the United States of America (1811 - Astoria)," premiered in duo with bassist Michael Formanek in 2009. Recently, Dave Burrell has been touring the world solo, in duo with singer Leena Conquest, and with Archie Shepp and William Parker in various settings. During the last 30 years, Dave has appeared on over 115 stellar recordings, 30 under his own name, and on those of Marion Brown, Grachan Moncur III, David Murray, Sunny Murray, William Parker, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, and many more. A frequent lecturer, Dave has given master classes at Bard College, Brandeis University, Bryn Mawr College, Columbia University, Conservatoire Municipal, DePauw University, Duquesne University School of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Dance, the Library of Congress, New York University, Queens College, Rice University, Strasbourg Conservatory, Swarthmore College, Tremblay Conservatory, and the University of Pennsylvania. Recent commissions have come from the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia and the Whitney Museum in New York City. Dave Burrell is the recipient of numerous grants and awards from the William J. Cooper Foundation, John Garcia Gensel Award, MidAtlantic Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania State Council on the Arts, Pew Fellowship in Jazz Composition, and the Philadelphia Music Foundation. http://daveburrell.com
TYSHAWN SOREY, born in Newark, NJ in 1980, is a very active young composer, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and scholar who works across an extensive range of musical idioms. He began making music on a toy drum set when he was three years old, branched out to piano at age five, followed up with trombone, and was his own self-taught one-man band by the time he was 8. After high school, he studied jazz and performance at William Paterson University. He has performed and / or recorded nationally and internationally with several of his own leader ensembles, as well as groups led by Muhal Richard Abrams, Billy Bang, Anthony Braxton, Steve Coleman, Dave Douglas, Henry Grimes, Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman, Lawrence "Butch" Morris, Matana Roberts, Michelle Rosewoman, Wadada Leo Smith, and many more. Tyshawn Sorey's recent music has focused on concepts derived from the music of Morton Feldman and Zen Buddhism, using these models for interpreting determinate music, acting as principal generators for the discovery of ideas. Mr. Sorey has conducted and participated in various lectures and master classes on improvisation, composition, contemporary drumming, ensemble playing, and critical theory at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Birmingham Conservatory of Music in the U.K., Cite de la Musique in Paris, Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Hochschule Fur Musik Koln in Germany, International Realtime Music Symposium in Norway, Musikhochschule Nurnberg in Germany, and the School for Improvisational Music in Brooklyn. Tyshawn is currently a private instructor in composition, critical theory, and improvisation for the School of Improvisational Music and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. He recently earned his Master's Degree at Wesleyan University, studying with Anthony Braxton, and is pursuing his doctorate at Columbia University. Tyshawn Sorey's music can be heard on the 482 Music, Clean Feed, Firehouse 12, Pi, and other labels. http://www.tyshawnsorey.net/live
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THE HENRY GRIMES TRIO with DAVE BURRELL and TYSHAWN SOREY,
Thursday, Sept. 27th, 2012, 8 p.m. (Anthony Coleman follows at 10 p.m.)
at the Stone, northwest corner of Ave. C and 2nd St., NYC (Manhattan) 10009 (no phone),
tickets $20, no advance sales, so be there early.
Take any subway or bus to 14th St., then the 9, 14A, or 14D bus on 14th St. going east and south to Houston St; or
any subway or bus to 14th St., then the L train toward Brooklyn to 2nd Ave. (last stop in Manhattan),
then the 9, 14A, or 14D bus going east on 14th St. and south to Houston St.
212-841-0899, grimestimes@earthlink.net
https://theblacklist.net/
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