Grimes Times!

Many are not aware of Henry Grimes's great return to the music world in 2OO3 after 35 years away, or his many triumphant concerts, festivals, and tours since then (more than 25O performances in 22 countries, and counting!), or the inspiring workshops and master classes he's been giving along the way. If you're not, or if you'd like to catch up on his recent doings, please visit www.henrygrimes.com

Henry Grimes, the great bassist, violinist, and recently published poet, who has played, toured, and recorded with everyone from Benny Goodman to Cecil Taylor, from Charles Mingus to my late friend Gerry Mulligan, has just returned from a glorious five-city tour in Japan and Korea, and Henry will be in Portugal next week playing in the Ponta Delgada Festival in the Azores, as well as three concert spaces and cultural centers in mainland Portugal. After this tour, another follows almost immediately in Paris and Luxembourg, and right after that there are several more dates in Paris and England, after which Henry returns home to New York City near the end of November.

Here is a brief list of Henry Grimes concerts for this month and next:

Monday, October 1st: Yoriyuki Harada w/ Tobias Delius, Tristan Honsinger, Henry Grimes, and Louis Moholo, concert at Suginami Kokaido Concert Hall, Tokyo, Japan;

Tuesday, October 2nd: Yoriyuki Harada w/ Tobias Delius, Tristan Honsinger, Henry Grimes, and Louis Moholo, concert at Sakura-Za, Kofu City, Japan;

Wednesday, October 3rd: Yoriyuki Harada w/ Tobias Delius, Tristan Honsinger, Henry Grimes, and Louis Moholo, concert at Nagoya City Theatre, Nagoya, Japan;

Thursday, October 4th: Yoriyuki Harada w/ Tobias Delius, Tristan Honsinger, Henry Grimes, and Louis Moholo, concert at Kyoto Cultural Museum, Kyoto, Japan;

Sunday, October 7th: Yoriyuki Harada w/ Tobias Delius, Tristan Honsinger, Henry Grimes, and Louis Moholo plus Choi Sun Bae, concert at Buam Art Hall, Seoul, Korea.

Saturday, October 2Oth: Henry Grimes w/ Ibrahima Diokhane, Le Grand Dakar Senegalese Restaurant, Brooklyn, NY.

Saturday, October 27th: Henry Grimes Trio w/ Andrew Lamb and Newman Taylor Baker (Sublime Communication), Festival Internacional de Jazz de Ponta Delgada, Teatro Micaelense, Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal;

Wednesday, October 31st: Henry Grimes Trio w/ Andrew Lamb and Newman Taylor Baker (Sublime Communication), Galeria Ze dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal;

Thursday, November 1st: Henry Grimes Trio w/ Andrew Lamb and Newman Taylor Baker (Sublime Communication), Forum Cultural Jose Manuel Figueiredo, Moita, Portugal;

Friday, November 2nd: Henry Grimes Trio w/ Andrew Lamb and Newman Taylor Baker (Sublime Communication), Encontros Internacionais de Jazz de Coimbra, Salao Brazil, Coimbra, Portugal.

Tuesday, November 13th in Paris, France, plus Wednesday through Saturday, November 14th-17th in Dudelange, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg: Sunny Murray's New Change of the Century Orchestra, "Sunny's Time Now" documentary project covering travel on the band bus, rehearsals, recording, and grand-finale concert in the main auditorium of the Centre Culturel Regional, w/ Tony Bevan, John Edwards, Bobby Few, Henry Grimes, Khan Jamal, Sabir Mateen, Grachan Moncur III, Odean Pope, Richard Raux, Sonny Simmons, and Monnette Sudler.

Sunday, November 18th: Henry Grimes / Sabir Mateen Quartet w/ Rasul Siddik and John Betsch, Sunset Club's 25th-anniversary celebration, Paris, France.

Wednesday, November 21st: Henry Grimes w/ Paul Dunmall and Mark Sanders, the Wardrobe, Leeds, England (U.K.).

Thursday and Friday, November 22nd & 23rd: Henry Grimes with Paul Dunmall & Roger Turner, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, England (U.K.), Henry speaking at the University on Thursday, + trio concert at Xposed Club on Friday.

Saturdays, December 8th & December 22nd: Henry Grimes w/ Ibrahima Diokhane, Le Grand Dakar Senegalese Restaurant, Brooklyn, NY... and much more to follow! ...

His agent Margaret Davis is now booking Henry Grimes's concerts for 2OO8 with several of his working groups as well as some new projects.