He is perhaps best known for “Dawg Music,” his own creation, a blend of bluegrass and Gypsy Jazz, the style popularized by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. David Grisman has been around a few ...
Describing David Grisman means figuring out how to explain how he combines bluegrass, klezmer, jam bands, and jazz. But that’s what the virtuoso mandolin player has done in a 50-year career during ...
His hair is white and his step is slow, but 80-year-old violinist Stephane Grappelli played with the exuberance of a young man Friday night at George`s on West Kinzie Street. Grappelli, who is to the ...
"I never wanted to have a record company," says David Grisman, the Northern California mandolinist extraordinaire and pioneer of the instrumental bluegrass/folk/jazz blend known as new acoustic music.
Back when the United States was busy celebrating its 200th birthday, David Grisman introduced a new, quintessentially American sound on the eponymous 1976 album “David Grisman Quintet.” The mandolin ...
David Grisman calls his music “Dawg” music which happens to be his nickname of 35 years — back then he looked like a shaggy dog apparently — and just as good a label as any. Grisman, 63, the mandolin ...
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Master mandolinist David Grisman of Petaluma, known for his work with Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead and many others, will perform next summer and fall at the new City Winery restaurant and concert ...