Tiny Grimes & Coleman Hawkins
The jazz world was reintroduced to the four-string guitar of Tiny Grimes with this recording. Grimes, who worked to great acclaim with the Cats and a Fiddle and Art Tatum, made studio magic with Charlie Parker and Ike Quebec, and enjoyed some commercial success with his Rocking Highlanders, emerged here from a period in Philadelphia with a strong local rhythm section (including pianist Ray Bryant), the tart flute of Musa Kaleem, and the immortal tenor of Coleman Hawkins. The program mixes thr… MORE







