Henry Grimes, the multi-instrumentalist whose career in jazz music spanned more than 60 years, has died of complications related to the coronavirus.
He was 84. His wife Margaret Davis Grimes confirmed the news to the Jazz Foundation of America, WBGO reports. In the 1950s, the bassist performed alongside jazz greats including Sonny Rollins, Don Cherry, Billy Higgins, and Cecil Taylor.
Through the ’60s, he dabbled in the avant garde, performing with he late McCoy Tyner, Albert Ayler and others. The late ’60s also brought financial turmoil for Grimes, who would have to sell his pawn his double bass for cash, Pitchfork reports.
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