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Marilyn Crispell and Henry Grimes


 Henry Grime and Marilyn Crispell
  
When: Friday, February 17, 2012, 8pm
Where: Cullen Hall at the University of St. Thomas
4001 Mt Vernon St.
Houston, TX  77006
Tickets: $13 General, $10 Students
Everyone under 18 gets in for free


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Marilyn Crispell (New York) – piano
Henry Grimes (NYC) – bass, violin

Nameless Sound presents versatile jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell and master bassist Henry Grimes. The frequent collaborators appear in concert together for the first time in Houston at the University of St. Thomas’ Cullen Hall.

Marilyn Crispell is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied classical piano and composition, and has been a resident of Woodstock, New York since 1977 when she came to study and teach at the Creative Music Studio. She discovered jazz through the music of John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and other contemporary jazz players and composers. For ten years she was a member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet and the Reggie Workman Ensemble and has been a member of the Barry Guy New Orchestra and guest with his London Jazz Composers Orchestra, as well as a member of the Henry Grimes Trio, Quartet Noir (with Urs Leimgruber, Fritz Hauser and Joelle Leandre), and Anders Jormin's Bortom Quintet. In 2005 she performed and recorded with the NOW Orchestra in Vancouver, Canada and in 2006 she was co-director of the Vancouver Creative Music Institute and a faculty member at the Banff Centre International Workshop in Jazz. Besides working as a soloist and leader of her own groups, Crispell has performed and recorded extensively with well-known players on the American and international jazz scene. She's also performed and recorded music by contemporary composers Robert Cogan, Pozzi Escot, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Manfred Niehaus and Anthony Davis.

In the late ‘50s through 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, Sunny Murray, 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. He sold it for a small sum and faded away from the music world. Without a bass, a vehicle or a telephone, he was truly lost. He survived by doing manual labor and redirected his creative powers into writing poetry. In 2002, he was discovered by a Georgia social worker and fan and was given a bass by William Parker. 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 2003 to play in the Vision Festival. Since then, Henry Grimes has played more than 470 concerts (including many festivals), toured in 27 countries and played and recorded with many of this era's musical heroes. Henry made his professional debut on a second instrument (the violin) at the age of 70 and has seen the publication of the first volume of his poetry, "Signs Along the Road."

For more info on the musicians:
www.marilyncrispell.com
www.henrygrimes.com

Photo Credits: Henry Grimes by Pater Gannushkin. Marilyn Crispell by Claire Stefani.