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Nate Dorward wrote, "I note that Taylor's doing a solo gig in Toronto at the start of June." What's the date and what's the place, please, Nate? And for everyone's enjoyment, here's a 194O photo of actor Terry Carter (then called John DeCoste) with his friend Cecil Taylor (on the right) as Boy Scouts:

Red wrote, "My brain hurts...any clues on what's going to happen ?" Your brain will stop hurting, and it's going to be great!

A lot has happened with Cecil Taylor since August of 2OO6. Henry Grimes was reunited with him on the bandstand for the first time in 4O years in October, 'O6 at Jackie and Dollie McLean's Artist Collective in Hartford, Connecticut, along with Pheeroan akLaff on drums, forming the trio Cecil named AHA3, and two more concerts ensued the same month with this trio at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City. Mr. Taylor also played solo concerts in New York and Philadelphia in October and November of 'O6, and recently he toured Japan with pianist Yosuke Yamashita. Next up: Jazz at Lincoln Center, two dates with AHA3 in March, 'O7. That same month Mr. Taylor was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (but did not attend the ceremonies). And shortly to follow: Sunday, May 6th, 'O7: Cecil Taylor’s AHA3 featuring Henry Grimes & Pheeroan akLaff + special guest Andy Bey, the Blue Note, 131 West 3rd St. at 6th Ave., New York City, 8 & 1O:3O p.m., 212-475-8592, www.bluenotejazz.com/newyork/schedule/index.shtml, staff@bluenote.net. Further along (but scheduled previously), there's Cecil Taylor featuring Anthony Braxton plus William Parker and Tony Oxley on Sunday, July 8th at the Royal Festival Hall in London. And there is talk of two Cecil Taylor dates in Bologna, Italy in October and possibly four Cecil Taylor dates with a different group each night in the fall of 'O7 at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York. Someone started a Web site for Cecil, www.cecil-taylor.com, and things were looking good there at first, but the concert listings have not been maintained.

GRIMES TIMES!! GRIMES TIMES!! May, 'O7 Henry Grimes, photo by Mark Sheldon (thanks, Mark!), Chicago, 'O6 Sunday, May 6th: Cecil Taylor’s AHA3 featuring Henry Grimes & Pheeroan akLaff + special guest Andy Bey, the Blue Note, 131 West 3rd St. at 6th Ave., New York City, 8 & 1O:3O p.m., 212-475-8592, www.bluenotejazz.com/newyork/schedule/index.shtml, staff@bluenote.net. Tuesday, May 8th: Marc Ribot w/ Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, 1O7 Suffolk St. betw. Rivington & Delancey (one block east of where Tonic was), New York City, 7:3O p.m. (Sabir Mateen / Daniel Carter / Andrew Barker follow at 9:3O), 212-254-542O, http://csvcenter.com/2005, www.csvcenter.com/2005/directions.htm, www.visionfestival.org, info@visionfestival.org. Tuesday-Saturday, May 15th-May 19th: Henry Grimes's Spaceship on the Runway, w/ Maestro Marshall Allen, Andrew Lamb, and Avreeayl Ra, two workshops and two concerts in the Uncool Festival at Poschiavo, Switzerland near the Italian border, (O11-41) 81 84 4O O5O, www.uncool.ch, thekey@uncool.ch... ... and much more to follow! For bookings, high-res photos, further information, or to purchase a recording and / or book by the NEW Henry Grimes, please contact musicmargaret@earthlink.net, Voicemail 212-841-O899. www.henrygrimes.com

(photo by Jamie Anderson) Well, too late now, but I hope those in the New York area didn't miss this one: Jazz / blues / gospel / and beyond concert, Wednesday, March 28th, 'O7: Henry Grimes (bass, violin) and Amina Claudine Myers (piano, voice), 1O p.m. at the Stone, northwest corner of Ave. C and 2nd St., New York City, www.thestonenyc.com, nycthestone@yahoo.com, no phone. Take F train to 2nd Ave. & Houston St. stop, or #M9, M14D, or M21 bus to / along Houston St. A very original, soulful, and powerful pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and arranger, AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS was born in Blackwell, Arkansas and started studying music when she was seven, singing with gospel groups in school, and later receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education in Little Rock. After moving to Chicago, she taught in the public schools for six years, attended Roosevelt University, and joined the AACM. She moved to New York in 1976, where she worked with Lester Bowie and Muhal Richard Abrams, formed her own group, and toured with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra in 1985. Owing to her deep spirituality, advanced musical training, and wide-ranging background, she can move gracefully from dusty-road blues and soulful funk to shimmering tone poems and street-smart urban R&B, balancing precision with passion as she goes. Ms. Myers has also expanded into the theater realm, writing pieces for this medium, acting, and composing music for a number of off-Broadway productions. Amina Claudine Myers has released nine recordings as a leader on labels including Sweet Earth, Leo, Black Saint, Minor Music, and Novus, and she can also be heard on recordings by Muhal Richard Abrams, Ray Anderson, Martha and Fontella Bass, Lester Bowie, Anthony Braxton, Charlie Haden, Bill Laswell, Frank Lowe, Archie Shepp, Henry Threadgill, James Blood Ulmer, and more. For further information: www.myspace.com/aminaclaudinemyers, http://aacm-newyork.com/members.html (and click on her name). Master bassist and violinist HENRY GRIMES, missing from the music world since the late '6O's, has made an unprecedented comeback after receiving the gift of a bass (a green one called Olive Oil!) from William Parker in December, 'O2 to replace the instrument Henry had been forced to give up some 3O years earlier. Between the mid-'5O's and the mid-'6O's, 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, Lennie Tristano, Charles Tyler, McCoy Tyner, and many more ... and then after a disastrous trip out West in 1968 with a damaged bass that he couldn't pay to have repaired, he disappeared. Making a miraculous return to the music world in 2OO3, these days Henry lives, works, and teaches in New York City and has been playing primarily as a leader with great musicians of today such as Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Dixon, Joe Lovano, David Murray, William Parker, Cecil Taylor, John Tchicai, and many more. Since 2OO3, Henry Grimes has toured extensively in Europe (19 countries and counting) as well as Canada and the U.S., meanwhile adding the violin to his bandstand voice, and adding published writings and illustrations to his artistic media. For further information: www.henrygrimes.com, musicmargaret@earthlink.net, 212-841-O899.

Ted Curson played in a memorial celebration for Denis Charles here in New York at Tonic in December, 'O3; others who played that night (or at least were scheduled to play) included Pheeroan akLaff, Rashied Ali, Nathan Breedlove, Roxane Butterfly, Roy Campbell, Jr., Joel Forrester, Joe Gallant, Henry Grimes, Montego Joe, Sabir Mateen, Jemeel Moondoc, Buell Neidlinger (to my memory, he didn't make it), William Parker, Jimmy Vass, and more. The following June 1st, Henry Grimes & Ted Curson did an on-air special together on the great radio station WKCR, and the next day Henry and Ted played absolutely gorgeous duets at Cornelia Street Cafe. In September of 'O4 there was a great party at Ted and Marge's place in Montclair, NJ at which the guest of honor was Finland's President Tarja Halonen. We haven't seen Ted since then, but he does indeed live at least half the year in Finland. To my ears, he's still playing with great power and eloquence but has also taken to singing a fair amount.

Wow, there are so many posts in this thread that I really can't go back and read them all, but my biggest gripe with drummers these days, particularly in the "avant-jazz" world, is guys (well, mostly guys, for whatever reason) clicking and tinging and bonking and clattering and bumping away behind the drum kit, very busy being artsy and cutesy and "sound-sculpture"-ish, and knowing absolutely nothing about what drums are actually for or what they are capable of or their part in human history. Not only no swing, but no rhythms, no groove, no soul, and the thought of tuning their drums has yet to dawn. I'm not free to name any names, but the rest of you might like to!

I don't know where you are (or indeed what your name is), but if you're not in the New York area, you can get a fairly decent New York City concert schedule off the Web from the allaboutjazz site. Just go to www.allaboutjazz.com/newyork/aaj_ny_200703.pdf (for the year 2007 and the month 03, March), go and have dinner while you wait for it to download (if your computer deals with big pdf files like mine does), and eventually you will have a copy of the March, '07 issue of "All About Jazz" / New York. You didn't say how long you'd be in New York, but you can then print out pages 38-41 for concert listings from March 15th through the end of the month and a fairly comprehensive club directory. Each month you can do a download like this by waiting for the first of the month and then putting in the same URL, only, for example, 200706 for June of '07 or 200801 for January of '08... well, you get the idea. You can't download a month's issue before the month begins, but I think you can download old issues. I hope this is helpful.

Tuesday, March 2Oth, 'O7: Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali, broadcast / Webcast, 6-9 p.m. New York time playing duets and in verbal conversation as well, WKCR-FM, 89.9 on the dial in the New York area and on the Web at www.wkcr.org, 212-854-992O, jazz@wkcr.org. (Their previous date together was in 1965 on Archie Shepp's great Impulse! recording "On This Night", also with Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Chambers, J.C. Moses, Ed Blackwell, & Christine Spencer.) Photo of Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali by Michael Lowe, 3/2O/O7

GRIMES TIMES!! GRIMES TIMES!! March, 'O7 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!! The official publication date of Henry Grimes's first published book of poetry and other writings, "Signs Along the Road," is Thursday, March 1st; it will be presented to the world at the Jazzahead conference in Bremen, Germany Thursday-Sunday, March 8th-11th at the JazzInstitut Darmstadt booth, www.buddysknife.de, info@buddysknife.de, office + 49-221-399-5657, www.jazzahead.de/en/konferenz/konferenz_einleit.php. (Henry will not be present.) Thursday, March 1st: Sabir Mateen & Hilliard Greene, 8 p.m; Connie Crothers & Henry Grimes, 1O p.m. (separate admission, $15), at the Stone (curated by Matthew Shipp this month), northwest corner of Ave. C and 2nd St., NYC, www.thestonenyc.com, nycthestone@yahoo.com, no phone. Friday and Saturday, March 9th and 1Oth, 8 p.m: The Cecil Taylor trio (the new AHA 3) w/ Henry Grimes & Pheeroan akLaff; also John Zorn w/ Dave Douglas, Greg Cohen, & Joey Baron (Masada), Jazz at Lincoln Center, Rose Theatre, Broadway at 6Oth St., NYC, www.jalc.org/concerts/details.asp?EventID=952, tickets from the site, at the Rose Hall box office at 6Oth St. & Broadway, or from CenterCharge, 212-721-65OO. NOTE: You can save 25% at the box office or by phone only (not online) by saying the discount code "jazz 25." Tuesday, March 2Oth: Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali on the air playing duets & in verbal conversation as well, WKCR-FM, 89.9 on the dial in the NYC area, 6-9 p.m., also Webcast over www.wkcr.org, 212-854-992O, jazz@wkcr.org. (Their previous date was in '65 on Archie Shepp's great Impulse! recording "On This Night", also w/ Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Chambers, J.C. Moses, Ed Blackwell, & Christine Spencer.) Wednesday, March 28th: Eri Yamamoto with David Ambrosio & Ikuo Takeuchi, 8 p.m; Henry Grimes & Amina Claudine Myers, 1O p.m. (separate admission, $2O), at the Stone, NYC (see listing for March 1st, above). Thursday-Saturday, March 29th-31st: Henry Grimes residency w/ the Creative Arts Orchestra, U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor, workshop / master class Thursday 5-8 p.m. (+ possible 2nd workshop / master class on Friday), 734-764-O583 or -O594, www.umich.edu, www.umich.edu/faculty_staff/kirschenmann.mark.lasso; concert Saturday at Kerrytown Concert Hall, 415 North 4th Ave., Ann Arbor, 734-769-2999, www.kerrytownconcerthouse/calendar, KCH@kerrytown.com... ... and much more to follow! For the music, Margaret Davis, musicmargaret@earthlink.net, 212-841-O899, www.henrygrimes.com (Photo shows Henry Grimes & Connie Crothers in NYC, 'O7)

P.S., Tom Marcello, thank you so much for posting these classic photos here and on Flickr, and I hope you have thousands more to share with us, rather than "scores!"

Hey, Tom, sorry for addressing you by your last name before, Marcello; I just found out about the Tom! C, thanks for asking about the great Henry Grimes. I suppose this thread should appear somewhere else on Organissimo, but after 4O years apart, Henry played in Cecil Taylor's trio with Pheeroan akLaff in three sensational concerts last October (one at Jackie McLean's music center in Hartford and two at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City), and the next two concerts will be at Lincoln Center here in New York on March 9th and 1Oth: The Cecil Taylor trio (the new AHA 3) w/ Henry Grimes and Pheeroan akLaff; also John Zorn with Dave Douglas, Greg Cohen, and Joey Baron (Masada), at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Rose Theatre, Broadway at 6Oth St., New York City, 8 p.m., 212-546-2656, www.lincolncenter.org, www.jalc.org/concerts/details.asp?EventID=952, tickets from the site, at the Rose Hall box office at 6Oth St. and Broadway, or from CenterCharge, 212-721-65OO. And we certainly hope for many, many more! There's lots more Henry Grimes news at www.henrygrimes.com, and in particular, click on the "schedule" button. Here's a photo of Henry playing violin, which he's been doing to great effect in concert for about a year now. Violin was his first instrument as a schoolboy, but he's never owned one before. One day he mentioned that he wished he could play violin again, so of course that was his birthday gift in 'O4, and he's been playing it for three or four hours a day ever since! The photo was taken by Mark Sheldon in Chicago, 'O6: Well, Lazaro can tell you about it!

I believe Steve Neil was from Dayton, Ohio and is mostly known for playing bass with Pharoah Sanders; he can be heard on Pharoah's albums "Pharoah" on India Navigation #1027 ('76) and "Message from Home" on Verve #314 529 578 ('95). He also played in at least one of Hannibal Marvin Peterson Lokumbe's groups in the '7O's, as you know, and is said to have worked with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Yusef Lateef, and McCoy Tyner as well. In recent years Steve has recorded with Carl Grubbs, Frank Lowe, and Sonny Simmons on CIMP (see www.cimprecords.com/artists/?artist=Steve+Neil). Steve lived in Africa for a while and came to the New York area, living in Brooklyn for a few years perhaps 15 years ago, which is when I knew him, and at that time he was playing bass and almost any other instrument he could get his hands on, including saxophones and African instruments. Sometimes he'd turn up in a small club on the lower East Side of Manhattan that isn't there any more and would play with a group of very young musicians of the time named Brian Settles (tenor saxophone), Dave Minasian (trombone), Andrew Bemkey (keyboard at that time, now piano and bass clarinet), and Chad Taylor or Jeremy Carlstedt (drums). This very young band, led by Andrew Bemkey, was called Kin*Ship, and that ship had an inspired and brilliant crew of young brothers indeed. A couple of these youngsters shared their Brooklyn apartment with Steve Neil and also an African guitarist[?]. I'm sure you've heard of Andrew and Chad since then, but maybe not the others. A couple of members of the Kin*Ship crew who were students at the New School jazz program helped bring Steve Neil onto the teaching staff there, but that was a short-lived situation. Steve ran into some other problems here too and left New York, surfacing later on in the Boston area. I think he's still there now, and I'm checking to see what he's doing these days and whether I can gather any more biographical information. Steve Neil was then and no doubt still is a phenomenal musician.

<< >>< >< >< ><>< I'm wondering if the bassist with the Afro could be Steve Neil, who played in some of Hannibal's groups. These days he looks like this:

Okay, I sent those two photos to William Parker, because he will know who the two musicians are. It may take him a while to get around to answering, though. What did you find out from Sam Rivers / his people?

A quick note about some upcoming things for the great Henry Grimes: * Saturday, January 2Oth: Henry Grimes's Spaceship on the Highway, w/ Marshall Allen, Andrew Lamb, & Avreeayl Ra, showcase concert for the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (also open to the public) at the Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St. betw. Broadway & Church St., New York City, main space, 8 p.m. (total of 18 groups playing in three concert spaces between 6 p.m. & 1 a.m.), 212-219-3OO6, 212-219-3132, www.knittingfactory.com, full schedule at www.winterjazzfest.com/2007/artspresentersjan20.html, tickets from www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=nyc&query=detail&event=705372 (this will be the 8th concert of this quartet since March, 'O5, though Fred Anderson has usually been the tenor player); and then various other things large & small before and afterwards, but this one is certainly significant: * Friday & Saturday, March 9th & 1Oth, 'O7, 8 p.m: Cecil Taylor AHA3 trio w/ Henry Grimes & Pheeroan akLaff; John Zorn w/ Dave Douglas, Greg Cohen, & Joey Baron (Masada), at the Rose Theatre, Lincoln Center, Broadway at 6Oth St., 212-546-2656, www.lincolncenter.org, www.jalc.org/concerts/details.asp?EventID=952. Tickets at $127.5O, $1O7.5O, $82.5O, $57.5O, $37.5O are available at the Web site, at the Rose Hall box office at 6Oth St. and Broadway, or from CenterCharge, 212-721-65OO. This will be the fourth and fifth concerts of this trio since October, 'O6. and another very exciting thing, or rather combination of things, right now still "in the brewing luminous": * Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali, combined live duo concerts, WKCR broadcast, WKCR Webcast, and recording sessions at Columbia University, mid-March or so, details to follow. www.henrygrimes.com musicmargaret@earthlink.net Voicemail 212-841-O899

Marcello, you could Email all the Studio Rivbea photos to rivbea@earthlink.net and ask for help with identifying the musicians. That's Sam Rivers and his people's Email address. I hope it works. Let us know what you find out! Attached is a Frank Rubolino photo of Sam Rivers taken at Vision Festival 'O5, NYC; the following year, Sam received the Vision Festival's Lifetime Recognition Award.

Thanks for your concern for Henry's well-being, "chitownjazz"! Henry's doing okay financially, making far, far below the national average, with not much left at the end of each week, but not going without anything he really needs either. He doesn't have luxuries, but there's no wolf at the door. He's happy to live humbly and grateful for the life he has. To fend off the wolf and the scuffle you mention, we have set minimum-guarantee requirements for concerts in town, concerts out of town, concerts overseas, and festivals, so Henry only works for meager fees if it's for a benefit concert or occasionally to help out a fellow musician. (He's playing two benefit concerts this month, one to help New York City children in public schools get musical instruments to play, and the other for the Jazz Foundation of America.) Hey, Lazaro, we didn't even know the Luis Perdomo CD was out! Glad you like it. I wrote to you two or three times in the past month or so about the trio coming out to Chicago but never had a reply. Did you not receive those for some reason, or did I bip when I should've bopped? Chuck and Ann, thanks for the beautiful photo (we hadn't seen that one before) and thanks for being... Chuck and Ann! Mark, we miss you!

Yes, that is Henry's beautiful green woman Olive Oil inside her case, so named by William Parker after William refinished her in olive green and some time before he gave her to Henry. You can see a photo of her with the Spaceship on the Runway Quartet in full color at this link: http://www.henrygrimes.com/Photos/hg67_Spa...yHildaDaily.jpg . The little spots you see on Olive Oil are space stickers added by Henry.

Henry Grimes is NOT on any drugs whatsoever. How dare someone who has absolutely no knowledge of the matter suggest such a thing, and when did he stop beating his wife? Also, Henry hardly drinks, though he likes a glass of red wine now and then (or even two), and in the winter he has an occasional fondness for a small cognac. Henry is a very happy man these days, strong, greatly inspired, playing brilliantly. No, he has not forgotten the past, whether he has cared to discuss it with outsiders or not. Yes, when he first came back to the music in late 2OO2 / early 2OO3, upon inquiry there was a lot he honestly could not remember. He was coming out of more than 3O years of deep depression, poverty, and deprivation, and if you can't understand this, you're the one who needs a doctor. Three and a half years later, Henry has come almost all the way back, and so has his memory, so ask him the same questions now and you will get a lot more answers. In fact, Henry just gave a two-hour phone interview to journalist Marc Medwin a couple of days ago, and Marc said anyone who wants to know how it went is welcome to Email him at mmedwin@earthlink.net. For anyone with any doubts about Henry Grimes doing well, kindly check out his upcoming schedule on his Web site, www.henrygrimes.com (click on the "schedule" button), and you will find: Sunday, Oct. 15th, 2-5 p.m: benefit for the Fund for Public Schools, w/ Festival of New Trumpet (FONT) musicians & special guests including Andrew Cyrille/ Dave Douglas/ Henry Grimes/ John Zorn and many more, at St. Marks Church, 131 East 1Oth St., New York City, reception follows in the parish house, 212-674-6377, ext. 1O, www.nycenet.edu/fundforpublicschools, FundforPublicSchools@schools.nyc.gov, www.fontmusic.org, www.stmarkschurch-in-the-bowery.com, stmarkschurch@verizon.net. PLEASE bring musical instruments, music stands, charts, manuscript paper, other music materials, money to donate for the schoolchildren! Tuesday & Wednesday, Oct. 17th & 18th, 7:3O & 9:3O p.m: Andrew Cyrille/ Henry Grimes/ Bill McHenry (Us Free), at the Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th St., New York City, 212-576-2232, www.jazzstandard.net/red/secondary/jazzCalendar.html. Wednesday, Oct. 18th: Dave Douglas w/ JD Allen/ Henry Grimes/ Joey Baron, broadcast of video footage from the Stone in New York City last June 25th, 4:3O p.m. air time on Warner cable channel 56 and RCN cable channel 84, also Webcast at www.mnn.org (select channel 56, Windows Media Player required). Saturday, Oct. 21st: Cecil Taylor w/ Henry Grimes & Pheeroan akLaff, 8 p.m., the Artists' Collective, 12OO Albany Ave., Hartford, CT, 86O-527-32O5, http://artistscollective.org/events.htm, info@artistscollective.org. Sunday, Oct. 22nd, 5-9 p.m: Henry Grimes's Masters of the Future, w/ Maestro Marshall Allen, Andrew Bemkey/ Tyshawn Sorey, Jazz Foundation of America loft party for its supporters, New York City, by invitation only, some tickets available for major contributions to the foundation, www.jazzfoundation.org, jazzfoundation@rcn.com. Thursday & Friday, Oct. 26th & 27th: Mystery concerts / concerts of mystery! Two amazing astonishing historic nights in New York City... please check back at www.henrygrimes.com/schedule.html soon!! Monday, 3O Oct.: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity Quartet w/ Roy Campbell & Chad Taylor & featuring Henry Grimes, Avant Festival at Klub Zak, ul. Grunwaldzka 195/197, 8O-266 Gdansk, Poland, + 58 344 O5 73, 345 15 9O, www.klubzak.com.pl; Wednesday, 1 Nov.: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity Quartet w/ Roy Campbell & Chad Taylor & featuring Henry Grimes, Tafelhalle Festival, Aussere Sulzbacherstrasse 6O-62, 9O491 Nuernberg (Nuremberg), Germany, 8 p.m., + 49 911 231 5297, tickets + 49 911 231 4OOO, www.kubiss.de/kultur/info/kuf/tafelhalle/eingang.asp, tafelhalle@stadt.nuernberg.de; Thursday, 2 Nov.: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity Quartet w/ Roy Campbell & Chad Taylor & featuring Henry Grimes (also Pablo Held Trio), Initiative Kolner at Stadtgarten, Venloerstrasse 4O, Belgisches Viertel, Cologne (Koln), Germany, music from 8 p.m. (2O:OO), + 49 (O)2 21 95 29 94O, www.stadtgarten.de, mail@stadtgarten.de; Friday, 3 Nov.: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity Quartet w/ Roy Campbell & Chad Taylor & featuring Henry Grimes, Tampere Jazz Happening, Old Customs House Hall, Tampere, Finland, 11 p.m. (23:OO), +358 (O)2O 716 6172 or 6932, www.tampere.fi/musicfestivals/jazz.htm; Saturday, 4 Nov.: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity Quartet w/ Roy Campbell & Chad Taylor & featuring Henry Grimes, Theater Lantaren Venster, Gouvernestraat 133, Rotterdam, Netherlands, +O1O 277 22 66, tickets O1O 277 22 77, www.lantaren-venster.nl; Sunday, 5 Nov.: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity Quartet w/ Roy Campbell & Chad Taylor & featuring Henry Grimes, Colegio Mayor San Juan Evangelista, Madrid, Spain, +34 91 534 24OO, www.cmusanjuan.com; Monday, 6 Nov: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity Quartet w/ Roy Campbell, Jr. & Chad Taylor & featuring Henry Grimes, Sala Apolo, c/ Nou de la Rambla 113, Barcelona, Spain, 1O p.m. (22:OO), +34 93 441 4OO1, www.sala-apolo.com/avance.asp; Wednesday, 8 Nov: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity Quartet w/ Roy Campbell, Jr. & Chad Taylor & featuring Henry Grimes, Teatro de Sevilla (Teatro Central), Isla e la Cartuja s/n, Sevilla, Spain, 9 p.m. (21:OO), +34 95 5O3 72OO, www.teatrocentral.com. Thursday, 9 Nov.: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity Quartet w/ Roy Campbell & Chad Taylor & featuring Henry Grimes, Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal, 1O p.m. (22:OO), +351 22O 12O 22O, www.casadamusica.com, info@casadamusica.com; Friday, 1O Nov.: Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity Quartet w/ Roy Campbell & Chad Taylor & featuring Henry Grimes, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London, England (U.K.), 7:3O p.m., +44 O87O 38O 43OO, box office O87O 38O 4OO, www.rfh.org.uk, customer@rfh.org.uk. Also Friday, 1O Nov. (later that night betw. midnight and 1 a.m.): Henry Grimes (independently) in the London Jazz Festival, short set at the Pizza Express Jazz Club for the BBC (we don't know whether solo or with whom yet), 1O Dean Street, Soho, London, England (U.K.), www.pizzaexpress.co.uk/jazzsoho.htm, jazz@pizzaexpress.co.uk; Saturday, 11 Nov.: Henry Grimes (independently) in the London Jazz Festival introducing and accompanying the documentary "My Name is Albert Ayler" by Kasper Collin, Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London, England (U.K.), 2 p.m. (14:OO), +44 O87O 38O 43OO, www.rfh.org.uk . Monday, 13 Nov.: Henry Grimes's Spaceship on the Runway Quartet featuring Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, and Avreeayl Ra, Nefertiti Jazzklub, Hvitfeldtspaltsen 6, Gothenburg (Goteborg), Sweden, +46- 31 711 4O76 or 711 1533, www.nefertiti.se, info@nefertiti.se; Tuesday, 14 Nov.: Henry Grimes's Spaceship on the Runway Quartet featuring Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, and Avreeayl Ra, Jazzclub Fasching, Kungsgatan 63, Stockholm, Sweden, music from 8 p.m. (2O:OO), +46 (O)8 21 62 67, +46 (O)8 53 48 29 61, www.fasching.se, info@fasching.se; Wednesday, 15 Nov.: Henry Grimes's Spaceship on the Runway Quartet featuring Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, and Avreeayl Ra, Annan Musik / Club Crescendo, Jarnbrogatan 3, Norrköping, Sweden, +46 (O)11 18 89 1O, www.crescendo.at, info@crescendo.at; Thursday, 16 Nov.: Henry Grimes's Spaceship on the Runway Quartet featuring Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, and Avreeayl Ra, Jeriko's, Spangatan 38, Malmo, Sweden, http://jazzimalmo.com, info@jazzimalmo.com. Thursday, 3O Nov.: Henry Grimes Trio w/ Roy Campbell, Jr. & Chad Taylor, Bohemian National Home, 3OO9 Tillman St., Detroit, Michigan, 313-737-66O6, www.myspace.com/bohemiannationalhome, newdetroitsounds@hotmail.com. Friday & Saturday, 1 & 2 Dec.: Henry Grimes Trio w/ Roy Campbell, Jr. & Chad Taylor + special guest Fred Anderson, the new Velvet Lounge, 67 East Cermak Rd. betw. Michigan & Wabash, Chicago, Illinois, music from 9 p.m., 312-791-9O5O, www.velvetlounge.net.... ... and much more to follow!