From Henry Grimes:
Saturday, October 2Oth: Henry Grimes (acoustic bass, violin, poetry) & Senegalese musicians, Le Grand Dakar Senegalese restaurant, 285 Grand Ave. betw. Lafayette Ave. & Clifton Place, Brooklyn, NY, sets at 8 and 1O p.m., $2O cover ($1O for students and elders) $1O food or drink min., delicious Senegalese cuisine, 718-398-89OO (please call for reservations in the music room), http://www.granddakar.com, info@dakarcafe.net. “A†train to Hoyt / Schermerhorn and change to “G†train to Classon Ave. (3 stops), or “C†train to Clinton-Washington.
Saturday, October 27th-Friday, November 2nd: Henry Grimes’s Sublime Communication: Henry Grimes (double-bass, violin, voice) with Andrew Lamb (saxophones, clarinets, flute) & Newman Taylor Baker (drums, percussion), tour in the Azores and Portugal:
Saturday, October 27th: Festival Internacional de Jazz de Ponta Delgada, Teatro Micaelense, Largo Sao Joao, 95OO Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal, 351 296 3O8 34O, http://www.teatromicaelense.pt, teatro@teatromicaelense.pt;
Wednesday, October 31st: Galeria Ze dos Bois, Rua da Barroca 59, Bairro Alto, Lisbon, Portugal, 351 21 343 O2O5, http://www.zedosbois.org/zdbmuzique/index.htm, zdb@zedosbois.org;
Thursday, November 1st: Forum Cultural Jose Manuel Figueiredo, Rua Jose Vincente, 2835-116 Baixa da Banheira, Moita, Portugal, 351 21 O88 89 OO, 351 21 O81 7O 16, http://www.cm-moita.pt/cmm/index.php, http://www.cm-moita.pt/cmm/forumbb/programa.pdf, forum.cultural.jmf@mail.cm-moita.pt (tickets to be picked up no later than 48 hours in advance); and
Friday, November 2nd: Encontros Internacionais de Jazz de Coimbra, at Salao Brazil, Largo do Poco, 3 (na Baixa de Coimbra), Portugal, 351 23 982 4217, http://salaobrazil.blogspot.com, salaobrazil@gmail.com.
Tuesday, November 13th in Paris, France, and 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, with Tony Bevan (bass, tenor, & soprano saxophones), John Edwards (double-bass), Bobby Few (piano), Henry Grimes (double-bass, violin), Khan Jamal (vibraphone, marimba), Sabir Mateen (tenor and alto saxophones), Grachan Moncur, III (trombone), Odean Pope (tenor saxophone), Richard Raux (tenor and soprano saxophone), Sonny Simmons (alto saxophone), Monnette Sudler (guitar), information http://www.opderschmelz.lu, http://www.ptd.lu/stn.htm, http://www.dudelange.lu, http://www.dudelange.lu/culture, pthiltges@ptd.lu, info@pdt.lu, danielle.igniti@dudelange.lu, advance tickets from http://www.e-ticket.lu, http://www.luxembourgticket.lu, http://www.mocom.lu:
Tuesday, November 13th: musicians arrive in Paris, France and spend the night;
Wednesday, November 14th: documentary filming of bus travel from Paris to Dudelange and first rehearsal of the orchestra;
Thursday & Friday, November 15th & 16th: documentary filming of orchestra rehearsals;
Saturday, November 17th: grand finale concert at Centre Culturel Regional, filmed for the documentary;
Sunday, November 18th: documentary filming of return of the musicians to Paris by bus.
Also Sunday, November 18th: Henry Grimes (double-bass, violin) & Sabir Mateen (saxophones, flutes, clarinets) Quartet featuring Rasul Siddik (trumpets) & John Betsch (drums), Sunset Club, 6O Rue des Lombards, Paris, France, part of the club’s 25th anniversary celebration, 9 p.m., 33 (O)1 4O 26 84 41, info@sunset-sunside.com, http://www.sunset-sunside.com.
Paul Dunmall (sorry, photographer unknown);
Mark Sanders, photo by Andy NewcombeWednesday, November 21st: Henry Grimes w/ Paul Dunmall and Mark Sanders, presented by Leeds Jazz at the Wardrobe, 6 St. Peter’s Square, Leeds LS9 8AH, England (U.K.), 44 (O)1 13 383 88OO, http://www.thewardrobe.co.uk, http://www.leedsjazz.org.uk/tickets.html, music@thewardrobe.co.uk, dave.gadd7@ntlworld.com, tickets also available from Jumbo Records, St. John’s Center, Leeds, 44 (O)1 13 245 557O.
Roger Turner (sorry, photographer unknown)
Thursday and Friday, November 22nd & 23rd: Henry Grimes with Paul Dunmall & Roger Turner, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, England (U.K.), http://www.glos.ac.uk/departments/externalrelations/wpu/comdev.cfm, http://www.glos.ac.uk/faculties/mac/whatson/index.cfm, swilding@glos.ac.uk, Henry speaking at the University on Thursday, trio concert at Xposed Club on Friday, Pittsville Studios, Media Atrium Bldg., Albert Road, 44 O1 242 714 94O, http://myspace.com/thexposedclub…
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