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{"value"=>"<p>Series I documents Grimes' life during and after his time away from music, dating mainly from 1967 to 2018, though some photographs date from earlier. It contains the following divisions: Notebooks and Writings; Papers, Correspondence, and Clippings; Visual Material; Photographs; and Notated Music.</p> <p>Notebooks and Writings include seventy-six notebooks, notepads, and binders from Grimes' time living in Los Angeles. They hold writings ranging from poetry to prose to Bible study and spiritual exploration; some notebooks are written as diary entries mixed with textual analysis while others are more freeform. In addition to the notebooks, there are typed pages of poetry from the early 2000s. Selections from across these notebooks were compiled in Grimes' book of poetry, <span class=\"title\">Signs Along the Road</span>, published in 2008. Also included here is a musical notation notebook from the 1960s that includes notation and writing on some of Grimes' musical pieces.</p> <p>Papers, Correspondence, and Clippings includes material detailing Grimes' personal and professional life. Items include a pocket Bible from Grimes' time in Los Angeles, a certificate commemorating Grimes' graduation from a Bible study course, copies of press release biographies, a detailed live performance itinerary from 2003 to 2018, email correspondence conducted by Margaret Davis-Grimes with record labels regarding the release of Grimes' music, press clippings, and postcards and programs from events honoring Grimes.</p> <p>Visual Material consists of artwork produced by or about Henry Grimes. Included are nine concert posters from performances between 2004 and 2012; sixteen pieces of original artwork produced by Grimes; an oil portrait of Henry Grimes painted by Denis Castellas in 2010; and a screenprinted t-shirt from the 2011 Vision Festival, honoring the violinist Billy Bang, and showing Bang conducting a performance with a clear image of Grimes performing violin in an ensemble.</p> <p>Photographs include publicity shots of Henry Grimes and images from live performances. The majority of photographs are from Grimes' return to performing in 2003, including photographs from one of his early performances at a house in Sherman Oaks, California. Other photographs document the 2007 WKCR recording session with Grimes and Rashied Ali, which includes a photograph of the two of them that was used on the cover of their album <span class=\"title\">Going to the Ritual</span>. Also of note are portraits with his wife, Margaret Davis-Grimes, and a variety of live performance photographs, such as a 2005 Chicago performance with Marshall Allen and Fred Anderson, and the 2014 memorial concert for Roy Campbell, Jr. held at Roulette in Brooklyn. Also present is a portrait of Henry Grimes on the streets of Los Angeles in 2000, a glimpse into his physical state during his ascetic years.</p> <p>Notated music consists mainly of lead sheets for music Grimes was called upon to play for particular performances. These include music of Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Coltrane, Jason Kao Hwang, Roscoe Mitchell, Marc Ribot, and others. The folder of music of Roscoe Mitchell holds both bass parts and full scores for small groups under Mitchell's leadership. Grimes also kept lead sheets for his own music, and maintained a collection of lead sheets by many jazz composers for his own study or for his students, mainly jazz standards from the 1950s to the 1970s. There are also two books: one is an illegal fakebook, <span class=\"title\">Monster Bebop</span>, which has several titles circled in the table of contents, indicating which compositions Grimes was working on. The other, possibly a gift to Grimes, is a short booklet titled <span class=\"title\">African-American Root Patterns: A Gullah Inspired Riddimic Exercise Book</span>, by David Pleasant. See also the notated music notebook in Notebooks and Writings, above.</p>"}