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| A. Spencer Barefield and Henry Grimes. Photo: ©2011 Barbara Barefield |
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“Henry Grimes is among the greatest improvisers living in the world today. His playing is exquisite.” — Roscoe Mitchell
Mitchell describes Barefield as “a treasure to Detroit and to the world of music and art…a gifted & innovative musician, as well as a profoundly creative composer.”
“…veteran of early free jazz, a former collaborator with Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler and many others, really has come back, playing with a wisdom and fire and ensemble sensitivity to the multiple settings.” — Josef Woodard, JazzTimes
Between the mid-'5Os and the mid-'6Os, the Juilliard-educated Henry Grimes played brilliantly on some 5O albums with an enormous range of musicians, including Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus (yes, Charles Mingus), Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Murray, Sonny Rollins, Roswell Rudd, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Charles Tyler, McCoy Tyner, Thelonious Monk and others … then he vanished for 30 years.
He re-emerged in 2002 when a social worker discovered him and helped him to acquire a bass, gifted to him by bassist William Parker. Grimes has since resumed an astonishing career, playing, touring and recording with many of today's musical heroes.
A. Spencer Barefield is "... an extraordinary guitarist/composer, whose striking use of classical sympathetic and 12-string instruments owes as great a debt to Segovia as it does to any jazz antecedent," touts JazzTimes. Barefield has toured and recorded internationally with Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille, Richard Davis and other jazz giants
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