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  Tiny Grimes
Tiny Grimes is the inventor of Rock and Roll, and 'Tiny's Boogie', recorded at WOR studios in NYC on August 14, 1946, is the very first Rock and Roll recording.
Tiny Grimes was Master of the jazz guitar and the inventor of Rock and Roll.
Born Lloyd Grimes on July 7, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia, he taught himself to play piano, and by 1935 was featured in amateur shows around the Washington DC area.
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 Bob Dylan Who's Who
Tiny Tim had taken his big shopping bag of cosmetics with him because he was staying overnight.
According to Tiny Tim, "When the electric radio first came in, in the '10s and '20s, it was hard for singers to adjust to electricity.
In the 1980's, Tiny Tim experienced a mild resurgence, as he was discovered by a new generation of rock musicians.
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 Tiny Grimes MP3 Downloads - Tiny Grimes Music Downloads - Tiny Grimes Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The veteran swing guitarist Tiny Grimes had relatively few chances to record during the '60s and '70s, particularly for American labels.
Guitarist Tiny Grimes was in a bit of obscurity when he had the opportunity to first record for Prestige in 1958.
The performances are rounded out by two more good blues from Grimes, Benny Goodman\'s "A Smooth One" and a memorable version of "April in Paris" that is executed with a light, swinging touch.
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His "Tiny's Boogie," made at WOR studios in New York on Aug. 14, 1946, is described as the first recorded instance of the genre.
Grimes was interviewed on the eve of a 1987 performance at the Los Angeles Press Club where he appeared with an equally venerable poet of the plectrum, John Collins – a fellow alumnus of the Tatum trio and a familiar figure on L.A. bandstands before his death in 2001.
And Tiny was still playing his chosen guitar -- the same four string model he had when Charlie Christian used to borrow his instrument up in Harlem – instead of the six-stringers employed by the rest of the jazz cohort.
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 Tiny Grimes b (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Grimes and Stewart then became accompanists to Art Tatum.
In the mid-40s Grimes led several small groups, some of which dabbled in early bebop and featured artists such as Charlie Parker.
In striking contrast, Grimes also played rock ‘n’ roll and cocktail lounge jazz to make ends meet.
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 Tiny Grimes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lloyd "Tiny" Grimes was born in 1917 in Newport News, Virginia.
Tiny Grimes is the inventor of "rock and roll".
Listen to "Tiny's Boogie", recorded at WOR studios on August 14, 1946, possibly the very first "rock and roll" recording.
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 Tiny Grimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lloyd "Tiny" Grimes (July 7, 1916 in Newport News, Virginia, USA - March 4, 1989) was an American jazz and RandB guitarist.
After leaving Tatum, Grimes recorded with his own groups in New York and he recorded with a long list of leading musicians, including vocalist Billie Holiday.
Grimes continued to lead his own groups into the later 1970’s and he recorded on Prestige Records in a series of strong blues-based performances with Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, Pepper Adams, Roy Eldridge and other noted players.
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 Tiny Grimes : Blues Groove (Tiny Grimes With Coleman Hawkins) - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Tiny Grimes : Blues Groove (Tiny Grimes With Coleman Hawkins)
True to its title, the focus here is the blues, as played by a group with an encyclopedic mastery of the genre and an equally impressive depth in swing styles.
Leader Tiny Grimes may be playing a four-string guitar, but his Charlie Christian-influenced sound is big, fluid, and expressive.
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 Tiny Grimes : Some Groovy Fours - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
With the exception of a Sonet album from 1977, this was guitarist Tiny Grimes' last recording as a leader.
Grimes is surprisingly still in peak form and is well showcased in a quartet with pianist Lloyd Glenn, bassist Roland Lobligeois and drummer Panama Francis.
Although there are some blues, as usual, Grimes also gets to stretch out "Lester Leaps In" and "I Found a New Baby," which show how strong a swing-based improviser he could be.
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 Tiny Grimes - Verve Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tiny Grimes was one of the earliest jazz electric guitarists to be influenced by Charlie Christian, and he developed his own swinging style.
In September 1944, he led his first record date, using Charlie Parker; highlights include the instrumental "Red Cross" and Grimes' vocal on "Romance Without Finance (Is a Nuisance)." He also recorded for Blue Note in 1946, and then put together an RandB-oriented group, "the Rockin' Highlanders," that featured the tenor of Red Prysock during 1948-1952.
Although maintaining a fairly low profile, Tiny Grimes was active up until his death, playing in an unchanged swing/bop transitional style.
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 Grimes Guitars: Prices
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Grimes guitars carry a limited lifetime warranty on workmanship and materials for the original owner and his/her descendants.
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 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Biography 1950 - 1959   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hawkins catches his first musical break and takes a job as musician and chauffeur with bandleader and veteran jazz guitarist Tiny Grimes who has recorded extensively for Atlantic and Gotham and who is already reknowned for his contribution to the enduring brilliance of the Art Tatum Trio.
Jay "walked up to Tiny and asked for a job" and is hired for Tiny Grimes' Rocking Highlanders on vocals, sax and keyboards, in Jay's own words: "As Tiny's valet, body guard, dog walker, piano player and blues singer and all this for $30 a week!...
Grimes is quick to admit that donning tammies and tartan was a good career move ("the kilts really did it for us, they were the best threads on the scene") but he is soon upstaged by his young vocalist whose stage apparel often resembles something out of an ecclesiastical shop window.
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 Tiny Grimes With Jerome Richardson - Tiny in Swingsville | internet radio on icebergradio.com
Tiny Grimes With Jerome Richardson - Tiny in Swingsville
Tiny Grimes With Jerome Richardson - Tiny in Swingsville
With the strong assistance of Jerome Richardson (who is in top form on flute, tenor, and baritone), pianist Ray Bryant, bassist Wendell Marshall, and drummer Art Taylor, Grimes is heard in excellent form on "Annie Laurie," his "Durn Tootin'," "Ain't Misbehavin'," "Frankie and Johnnie," and a couple of original blues.
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 SJH
Some time in 1951 he was listening to the Tiny Grimes band in a local club.
Grimes' Rockin' Highlanders, dressed in kilts and tam o'shanters, were popular and had recorded extensively for Atlantic and Gotham.
As Tiny's valet, body guard, dog walker, piano player and blues singer and all this for $30 a week!...I'd come out in a Scottish kilt, and I'd have these two small Carnation milk cans hanging off my chest, like tits.
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 Tiny Grimes & Friends - Tiny Grimes & Friends [Collectables] | Z95-3
An interesting collection of early Tiny, working with Cats and The Fiddle on five of the 14 collected tracks on this hodgepodge compilation.
The rest of it is Grimes backing everyone from gospel group The Dixieaires to R&B singers Johnny Davis, Lionel Robinson, J.b.
Summers and George Grant (recorded here for Gotham Records under the pseudonym of Haji Baba), along with an unissued and much wilder take of his own "Call of the Wild." Not the place to start a Tiny Grimes collection, but a nice one to add to the collection along the way.
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 Marv Goldberg's R&B Notebooks - THE CATS AND THE FIDDLE
The first session with Tiny Grimes was held on January 20, 1941.
Grimes then formed the Tiny Grimes Quartet, which relocated to New York to provide backup for Billie Holiday.
It became the Tiny Grimes Quintet with the addition of Charlie “Bird” Parker later in 1944; this group made some recordings for Savoy.
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 R&B, Soul, Doo-Wop - The G-Clefs -> Tiny Grimes (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Highlights from Tiny Grimes' Gotham recordings (issued on Krazy Kat LP's 804, 817 and 821) are brought forth on this 20 track CD.
As the plentiful instrumental cuts show, Tiny was one of the most distinctive and accomplished RandB guitarists, with a forceful horn-like approach similar to T-Bone Walker's but even more inventive and fluid.
Grimes' presence on some of the cuts is questionable at best but he turns in a raucous instrumental and some driving accompaniment on tracks by J.B. Summers and Haji Baba.
www.rootsandrhythm.com.cob-web.org:8888 /roots/RANDB-DOOWOP/randb_g.htm   (1736 words)

  
 Classic Jazz Guitar - Guitarists (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tiny Grimes (1916 – 1989) began his musical career playing drums and piano.
After leaving Tatum, Grimes recorded with his own groups in New York and he recorded with a long list of leading musicians; Ike Quebec, Cozy Cole, Leonard Feather and Buck Clayton, among others.
Tiny Grimes continued to lead his own groups into the later 1970’s and he recorded with Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet and Roy Eldridge.
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 Grimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grimes is a surname, and may refer to
Frank Grimes, fictional character from the animated television show, The Simpsons
Grimes Graves, Neolithic flint mining complex in England
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 Annie Laurie by Tiny Grimes: Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tiny Grimes : Albums : Tiny in Swingsville : Annie Laurie : Reviews
This particular CD (a reissue of the original LP) was the final of his three Prestige albums and it really puts the focus on Grimes' bluish but swinging guitar playing.
With the strong assistance of Jerome Richardson (who is in top form on flute, tenor, and baritone), pianist Ray Bryant, bassist Wendell Marshall, and drummer Art Taylor, Grimes is heard in excellent form on "Annie...
www.mp3.com /tracks/19407/reviews.html   (144 words)

  
 'Tiny Grimes and His Rocking Highlanders, Vol. 2' by Tiny Grimes and his Rocking Highlanders from The Portsmouth Chorus.
2' by Tiny Grimes and his Rocking Highlanders from The Portsmouth Chorus.
Audio CD: Tiny Grimes and his Rocking Highlanders: Tiny Grimes and His Rocking Highlanders, Vol.
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 Atlantic R'n'B (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This is a pretty pedestrian, if, as usual, enjoyable blues shuffle, with, this time around, all of the "important" quintet members (that is, everybody bar the rhythm section) show off their skills, and considering that Grimes was easily the one major star in the combo, that wasn't such a hot idea.
Even the guitar part itself is pretty camouflaged, and somehow it seems that everybody got so taken in by the tune's lazy 'midnight' vibe that they carried the minimalism a bit too far.
This, unlike the Tony Grimes tune of the (nearly) same name, is the same blues number that most people will be familiar with from the Creedence version, although the lyrics are a real messy hodge-podge that Big Joe might have improvised on the spot, I have no idea.
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 Tiny Grimes - AOL Music
Tiny Grimes from the inside cover of Ike Quebec, Blue Note Album 102, 78RPM, 1945.
The biggest names in music, including Mary J. Blige, Katharine McPhee, John Legend and more perform for the kids to benefit the JCPenney Afterschool Fund.
Download, listen and watch Tiny Grimes music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 The United and States Labels Part I (1951-1953)
Guitarist and bandleader Tiny Grimes was born Lloyd Grimes in 1917, in Newport News, Virginia.
The Board minutes of Local 208 of the Musicians Union indicate that Tiny Grimes had a contract to play the Brass Rail, a club in the Loop, for 2 weeks; it was accepted and filed on October 4, 1951.
Allen and Simpkins approached Grimes during this stay in Chicago and got him to sign on the dotted line.
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 Tiny Grimes And Friends CD (Tiny Grimes) - SHOP.COM
Tiny Grimes And Friends CD (Tiny Grimes) - SHOP.COM
Tiny Grimes And Friends Tracks Movin Out Today - (with The Cats The Fiddle), Things Got Tough Again - (with Dixieaires), Long Lean And Lanky - (with Dixieaires), Keep Me With You - (with Dixieaires), Im In Love With You Baby - (previously...
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 Tiny Grimes - Annie Laurie LYRICS (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tiny Grimes - Annie Laurie LYRICS (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)
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 TWO BONES & A PICK Jumps, Swings, and Rocks the Blues - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ...
Guitarist Dave Haley's fluid, energetic and tasteful playing always shines whether he's interpreting the jazzy jump of Tiny Grimes or coming up with Cobra Records tones...
From the opener, subtitled "Groovin' Like Grimes", you have an idea where this musical white water raft expedition is headed, strictly class 5 rapids.
On this effort, along with customary nods to the Memphis and Chicago Masters, "Dangerous" Dave Haley pays tasteful tributes to swing champions Tiny Grimes, Bill Jennings, and the Great Billy Butler.
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 The Roger Kellaway Trio: Heroes - PopMatters Music Review (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The format was useful in clubs where drums and horns weren’t allowed, and—as is liable to be forgotten—its beginnings in the late 1930s coincided with the arrival of and manufacturer-driven fad for the electric guitar.
Soon there was the King Cole Trio, which lasted through the early fame of its pianist’s singing, and as an even greater jazz pianist Art Tatum joined forces with Slam Stewart and Tiny Grimes, in a format with popular attractions.
In a recent BBC Radio 3 feature on Cole, Brian Priestley attributed the trio format to him, and even the block chords style taken up by George Shearing—who himself knows better and refers to its real founder, Milt Buckner.
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 Tiny Grimes : Tiny Grimes And His Rockin' Highlanders, Volume 1 - Audio CDs - Collectables Records : Oldies.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tiny Grimes : Tiny Grimes And His Rockin' Highlanders, Volume 1 - Audio CDs - Collectables Records : Oldies.com
Tiny Grimes And His Rockin' Highlanders, Volume 2 by Tiny Grimes (Audio CD) ~ $2.98
Here one of the most electric of electric guitar players joins forces with Screamin' Jay Hawkins, one of rock and soul's most theatrical figures and outrageous performers.
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 Tiny Grimes : Profoundly Blue - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tiny Grimes : Profoundly Blue - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
This enjoyable outing for Muse features Grimes in a sextet with tenor saxophonist Houston Person and pianist Harold Mabern; these versions of "Profoundly Blue" and "Tiny's Exercise" are among the highpoints.
Grimes also takes an effective vocal on the blues "Backslider" although the use of electric bass and congas makes the music seem a bit dated in spots.
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