Three of the greatest upright bassists on the planet meet! Juini Booth / Henry Grimes / William Parker: Tree Genies will weave dream spells with double-basses, nose flute, kora, violin, percussion, wind chimes, ancient chants, poetry and more, from deep within the mystical, purifying Tree Genie world, in the 4th annual Nublu Jazz Festival, at Nublu, 62 Avenue C betw. 4th & 5th St's, Manhattan, 212-979-9925, www.ticketfly.com, www.nublu.net, http://nublujazzfestival.com/, [email protected]. This is a bass summit of three masters, all three living in New York City and traveling the world playing their healing, entrancing music, at the very height of their powers. They are architects of liberation music who salute and honor one another and rejoice in their artistic brotherhood, even as they continue to open the way to a greater future. This is a stunning bass collaborative event guaranteed to delight the mind, body, and soul. Yes, history is still in the making! ...
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Three of the greatest upright bassists on the planet meet! Juini Booth / Henry Grimes / William Parker: Tree Genies will weave dream spells with double-basses, nose flute, kora, violin, percussion, wind chimes, ancient chants, poetry and more, from deep within the mystical, purifying Tree Genie world, in the 4th annual Nublu Jazz Festival, at Nublu, 62 Avenue C betw. 4th & 5th St's, Manhattan, 212-979-9925, www.ticketfly.com, www.nublu.net, http://nublujazzfestival.com/, [email protected]. This is a bass summit of three masters, all three living in New York City and traveling the world playing their healing, entrancing music, at the very height of their powers. They are architects of liberation music who salute and honor one another and rejoice in their artistic brotherhood, even as they continue to open the way to a greater future. This is a stunning bass collaborative event guaranteed to delight the mind, body, and soul. Yes, history is still in the making!
Playing professionally since age 16, JUINI BOOTH (acoustic and electric bass) has expanded the range of the contrabass into a refined personal language of intense acoustic awareness and spatiality of sound. Firmly rooted in the forefront of the American jazz tradition, which he has helped to shape, his music also integrates influences from world music, emerging beyond the boundaries of categories to express the poetics of universal humanity. His compositions reflect a masterful use of simple melodic themes developed through unexpected harmonies, and unusual tonal qualities and time relationships, inviting the listener to a new level of musical perception. Juini Booth has performed, recorded and toured for over 45 years with many great jazz musicians, including Albert Ayler, Gary Bartz, Art Blakey, Betty Carter, Buck Clayton, Charles Gayle, Eddie Harris, Coleman Hawkins, Freddie Hubbard, Gus Johnson, Elvin Jones, Shelley Manne, Lawrence "Butch" Morris, Sun Ra, Buddy Tate, McCoy Tyner, Randy Weston, Tony Williams, Larry Young, and many more. Juini received the Mingus-Zimmerman Award, sponsored by the International Society of Bassists for Most Imaginative Performance in the Free Choice Category. He was Music Curator at Hallwalls in Buffalo, New York (1981-82) and at Niagara Arts Council (NAC) in St. Catherine's, Ontario (1991). An NEA composer grant (CAPS) and Meet the Composer have supported his compositional work. Juini is currently focusing on composing new works for contrabass, as well as working on collaborative projects with artists in other disciplines, and teaching and recording. http://www.juinibooth.com/.
HENRY GRIMES (double-bass, violin) is one of the supreme architects of jazz and avant-jazz music, a brilliant innovator who played, toured, and / or recorded in the 1960s with Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Murray, Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, and many more -- and then went through 35 years of very hard times without an instrument to play. He made a triumphant return to the music world in 2003, aided greatly by William Parker, and has been surpassing himself and all expectations ever since, playing more than 500 concerts, teaching, and recording in 29 countries, with (among others) Marshall Allen, Marilyn Crispell, Edward “Kidd” Jordan, Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray, William Parker, Marc Ribot, Wadada Leo Smith, and again, Cecil Taylor. Mr. Grimes made his professional debut on a second instrument, the violin, with Cecil Taylor at Lincoln Center in 2007, and Henry's first published volume of poetry, "Signs Along the Road," appeared in print the following year. For William Parker's new book, "Voices in the First Person," Henry Grimes wrote this poem: "Musicians in our world today / inhabit the void / creating the habitat of music / within the place of sound and aesthetic / informed in rhyme and reason. / In the avant-garde / here at home / they travel into new beginnings / rustic modern myths of lands / and modes of ritual. / They travel to dominions / of sound vibrations / through every map and time / and lore / and the world has whispered / sacred secrets in their ears. / And so must we make music / to lift the song of human kind." [© Henry Grimes]. http://henrygrimes.com/.
WILLIAM PARKER (double-bass, shakuhachi, ngoni, gembri, and more) has written: "It is the role of the artist to incite political, social, and spiritual revolution, to awaken us from our sleep, and never let us forget our obligations as human beings, to light the fire of human compassion. Sounds that enlighten are infinite. We can put no limit to joy, or on our capacity for love." William is a master musician, improviser, composer, bandleader, poet, and philosopher. He was born in the Bronx in 1952, experienced an epiphany at the age of 12 when he heard Henry Grimes play, proceeded to study bass with Art Davis, Richard Davis, Jimmy Garrison, Milt Hinton, and Wilbur Ware, and entered the music scene in 1971, playing in New York City at Studio We, Studio Rivbea, Hilly’s on The Bowery, and The Baby Grand with many great musicians of the jazz avant-garde, including Rashied Ali, Donald Ayler, Don Cherry, Bill Dixon, Billy Higgins, Sunny Murray, and for 11 continuous years, Cecil Taylor. William Parker tours the world incessantly and has taught countless music workshops in places far and near, including Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, and the lower East Side of Manhattan. William is also the author of several books, including the Sound Journal, Document Humanum, Music and the Shadow People, and The Mayor of Punkville. These days, he leads a half-dozen groups of various sizes and formations. In the new millennium, there is growing appreciation of William's massive gifts both as a musician and as a spiritual leader. http://williamparker.net/.
Take the F train to 2nd Ave., use 1st Ave. exit, and walk east to Ave. C and north four blocks, or take the M-9 or M-21 bus along Houston St. and Ave. C. For help with directions and public transportation to get to NYC events, please go to http://tripplanner.mta.info/MyTrip/ui_web/customplanner/tripplanner.aspx, or call 511 or 718-330-1234.
Please join us, and we will rejoice together! And we thank Nublu for hosting us.
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