Artist	Song
Albert Ayler	Saints
Don Cherry	Awake Nu
Sunny Murray	The Lie
Cecil Taylor	Enter Evening
Archie Shepp	Malcolm, Malcolm, Semper Malcolm
Henry Grimes Trio	Walk On
Pharoah Sanders	Japan
Frank Wright Trio	The Earth
Marzette Watts and Company	Ia
Steve Lacy - Roswell Rudd	Brilliant Corners
Henry Grimes-David Murray-Hamid Drake	Flowers for Albert
Henry Grimes	solo (excerpt)

Comment:

Henry Grimes plays bass on these tracks. After a long while away from music (30+ years) Grimes was found living in LA. William Parker gave him a bass and Henry Grimes reemerged in the world of improvised music. I feel like a loser for not having any of the Gerry Mulligan or Lee Konitz or Chet Baker that Grimes plays on, but how would it fit into this mix? Weirdly. I'll have to go on a spree of some kind and then assemble the 'straight-ahead' Grimes comp. I had the Pleasure of seeing Mr. Grimes on Friday night at the HotHouse in Chicago with Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson and Avreeayl Ra. Words escape me, I couldn't be happier that Marshall Marrotte tracked Henry down in LA and re-introduced him to the world. The bass solo I excerpetd at the end of this mix is available on his website, www.henrygrimes.com and the record with Murray and Drake is on Ayler records. If you have the chance, go hear this master of modern music. Monk said that when his band was on, they "lifted the bandstand." Steve Lacy was fond of this quote, and he brings it up in the liner notes to the School Days album I took Brilliant Corners from. Henry Grimes and Marshall Allen lifted the bandstand on Friday and

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