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Posted on Nov 18, 2009 in Reviews | Comments Off
Grisman’s band swings at Stewart The News and Observer Owen Cordle During the past 10 years, David Grisman has been a one-man crusade for the jazz mandolin. Besides his virtuosity, he also has a compelling sense of ensemble, as his quartet’s performance Saturday night at Stewart Theater showed. The quartet itself is Mr. Grisman’s instrument as...
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Posted on Nov 17, 2009 in Reviews | Comments Off
Gordon Lewis To kick off its ’88-’89 season, Pinecone presented mandolinist David Grisman and his quartet. Grisman has been largely responsible for carving out a place for mandolin in jazz (along with such other talented musicians as Jethro Burns and Tiny Moore), legitimizing complex improvisation on the small stringed Instrument. He created...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2009 in Reviews | Comments Off
Gordon Lewis To kick off its ’88-’89 season, Pinecone presented mandolinist David Grisman and his quartet. Grisman has been largely responsible for carving out a place for mandolin in jazz (along with such other talented musicians as Jethro Burns and Tiny Moore), legitimizing complex improvisation on the small stringed Instrument. He created...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2009 in Reviews | Comments Off
Eliza Welch Mulvaney David Grisman’s band has been through several incarnations in the 11 years since his first group album, The David Grisman Quintet. With each change in personnel, David has met the challenge of making the best use available talent in his arrangements and compositions, The current Quartet provides him with considerable talent indeed:...
Read MoreBiting Cold doesn't faze Grapelli, Grisman
Posted on Nov 15, 2009 in Reviews | Comments Off
By William Johnson Times Tribune staff SARATOGA – At the opening concert of the Paul Masson Summer Series Thursday, master jazz Violinist Stephane Grappelli was delightful, but mandolinist David Grisman was sensational. Grappelli, the 78-year old Parisian, was as lyrical and nimble-fingered as ever, playing the great standards of George Gershwin, Cole...
Read MoreMandolin player mixes jazz, bluegrass
Posted on Nov 15, 2009 in Reviews | Comments Off
By Peter Corbett His innovative synthesis of jazz and bluegrass may never make it big on Top 40 radio, but mandolinist David Grisman has made his mark and expanded the limits of both genres of American music. In 1974, Grisman took bluegrass music a two-step further when be produced the Old and in the Way album, which is one of the largest selling bluegrass...
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Posted on Nov 14, 2009 in Reviews | Comments Off
Here is an amazing article in Modern Drummer that George Marsh wrote detailing his experiences working with David Grisman and the Quartet when we first started to get together. It’s a fascinating read and shows George’s incredible attention to detail, musicality, and thoughtfulness. He talks about how changing the dynamic level on his drums created...
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Posted on Nov 13, 2009 in Reviews | Comments Off
DAVID GRISMAN’S QUINTET TOOK THE STAGE IN 1976, AND STRINGED MUSIC HASN’T BEEN THE SAME SINCE By Mark Whittington Mercury News The revolution began quietly. No shouting. Just two mandolins, a fiddle, a guitar, a double bass. No singing. Then, wild applause. Music would never be quite the same. The start of this “new acoustic revolution”...
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Posted on Nov 12, 2009 in Reviews | Comments Off
Grisman’s band swings at Stewart The News and Observer Owen Cordle During the past 10 years, David Grisman has been a one-man crusade for the jazz mandolin. Besides his virtuosity, he also has a compelling sense of ensemble, as his quartet’s performance Saturday night at Stewart Theater showed. The quartet itself is Mr. Grisman’s instrument as...
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