Summary: 91 year old multi Grammy-nominated piano master, Henry Gray is a living legend and a national treasure whose recording career spans seven decades. After surviving deployments to the South Pacific with the Army during WWII, the Louisiana native found fame as a featured session player for Chess Records and easily found a home in the bands of the greatest blues players to ever record, including Little Walter, the Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and Elmore James. In fact, Gray was performing with Elmore James the night he died of a heart attack. If you ask him, Henry will tell you he left Chicago because everyone he knew died, and he didn’t want to catch what they had. After performing on stage with the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger asked Gray to perform at his wedding and his mother’s birthday party. In 2003 Gray was featured with Ray Charles in a documentary called Piano Blues which was produced by Clint Eastwood. The Delta Groove label released Gray’s latest studio effort with Bob Corritore called ‘The Blues Won’t Let Me Take My Rest.’
