Thank you very much Alex. It's very painful for me to see someone I walked and talked with, plus even heard his music before Blue Note ever heard of him. I heard his music in a fashion that few people ever get to hear any musician, and that's when he's not playing for any audience, but just for himself.
Actually, some of this music is not so different from what I heard, except that the music I heard wasn't written anywhere other than on his mind, and his heart. Grant's music is so honest; it's coming straight from his soul.
Seeing and hearing him is still painful; Grant was a man's man, what you see is what you get; St. Louis is not the softest or easiest city to live in, and that's where he grew up.
This music really touches me, it's as honest as music can get.