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Posted on 10/29/2008
David Grisman Quintet is now on Fanfound.com Catch The David Grisman Quintet at the Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival on Nov 22nd at the Congress Theater!
"What differences do you see between live and recorded music?" Why don't you see for yourself; Check out David Grisman Quintet live in this great video...
| Name: | David Grisman Quintet |
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| Hometown: | San Fransisco, CA |
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| Label: | Unsigned |
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| Grisman grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey.[1] He started his musical career in 1963 as a member of Even Dozen Jug Band. His nickname, "Dawg" was affectionately assigned by his close friend Jerry Garcia in 1973 (the two met in 1964 at a Bill Monroe show at Sunset Park in West Grove, PA). "Dawg Music" is what he calls his mixture of bluegrass and Django Reinhardt-Stéphane Grappel li-influenced jazz, as highlighted on his 1977 album "Hot Dawg". Stephane Grappelli played on a couple of tracks on the Hot Dawg album and then the 1981 recording "Stephane Grappelli and David Grisman Live". It was Grisman's combination of Reinhardt-era Jazz, bluegrass, folk, Old World Mediterranean string band music, as well as modern Jazz fusion that came to embody "Dawg" music.
Grisman's father had been a professional trombonist at one time, and he had young David take piano lessons at the age of seven. In the early 1950s, Grisman heard the beginnings of rock 'n' roll, and was influenced by pop music and everything he heard. Grisman's father died when he was 10, and David drifted away from the piano. He took it up again when he was about 13 or 14, but then discovered folk music through the Kingston Trio; a group that became popular during the American folk music revival.
David, and three friends from his school, then met folklorist and musician Ralph Rinzler in Passaic, New Jersey, and became greatly influenced by Rinzler's vast knowledge on the subject of traditional music. After that, David knew what he wanted to do with his life; and Greenwich Village in New York City was bustling with folk musicians by this time. In 1963, Grisman was in the Even Dozen Jug Band, and they recorded an album that year on Elektra Records.
Grisman did a Red Allen and Frank Wakefield session for Folkways Records in 1963, but didn't play with Red Allen and the Kentuckians until 1966. Grisman played mandocello on Tom Paxton's album "Morning Again" (Elektra, 1967).
In 1967, Grisman was in a psychedelic rock group called Earth Opera with Peter Rowan. In 1973, Grisman joined Rowan, Vassar Clements, Jerry Garcia and John Kahn to form the bluegrass group Old and in the Way. In 1974, Grisman, Rowan, Greene, and Kahn joined Bill Keith, Clarence White, and John Guerin in the group Muleskinner. In 1974, Grisman was also in The Great American Music Band. Then in 1975, he started his own band; the David Grisman Quintet.
Grisman also played mandocello on Bonnie Raitt's album, Sweet Forgiveness (1977). In 1977, the David Grisman Quintet released their first album.
In addition to performing with the DGQ (David Grisman Quintet), David Grisman also performs with his bluegrass group, the DGBX (David Grisman Bluegrass Experience). Other members of the DGBX are Keith Little on banjo, Chad Manning on fiddle, Jim Nunally on guitar, Samson Grisman on upright bass. |
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