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Henry Grimes

double bass, violin · 1935–2020 · Philadelphia

Bassist who worked with Mingus, Sonny Rollins and Cecil Taylor before becoming a major voice of 1960s free jazz. After several decades away, he was believed dead; rediscovered in 2002, he played in about thirty countries until 2018.

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