Dave Grusin

Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin: Brasil

by Edward Blanco
August 18, 2024

Friends and musical partners since the '70s, guitarist Lee Ritenour and pianist Dave Grusin continue their collaboration on Brasil, thanks to Ritenour's Brazilian wife Carmen, who was influential in recommending the project, and to the many outstanding Brazilian players who grace the album. Though the repertoire contains two Ritenour originals and one from Grusin, the producers draw on such Brazilian composers as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Milton Nascimento, Celso Fonseca and Ivan Lins for the majority of the songs, which were ...

Dave Grusin

by Joseph Vella
June 4, 2021

Tom and his longtime friend Dave Grusin sit down and discuss the remarkable (and historic) career of the composer, arranger, producer, pianist and co-founder of GRP Records. From Dave's early career with Andy Williams to scoring The Graduate and Heaven Can Wait to building a hugely successful record label to being the subject of a documentary and more. ...

Dave Grusin: Now Playing: Movie Themes - Solo Piano

by David Rickert
September 11, 2004

Successful film music is designed to enhance rather than dominate a scene, and thus many soundtrack albums, when removed from the context of the movie, are little more than nice background music. However, Grusin, a talented and well-known composer of film scores, has created new interpretation of some of the themes from his past work, many of which stand quite well on their own.

Although Grusin has jazz chops, many of his works borrow ideas from other genres, ...

Dave Grusin: Now Playing

by Mark Sabbatini
July 22, 2004

Pianist Dave Grusin built much of his reputation composing and playing scores for movies like On Golden Pond during the 1970s and '80s. His latest album is, depending on your point of view, either a trip down memory lane or another round of milking the cash cow.

Now Playing features fifteen solo performances of scores by Grusin, who in his linear notes refers to the challenges of arranging the pieces since they were generally written for orchestras. ...

Dave Grusin: West Side Story

by Jim Santella
January 1, 1998

It's been forty years already since West Side Story premiered on Broadway in New York City; since then, jazz luminaries such as Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, and Dave Liebman have released recorded collections of Leonard Bernstein's exciting music from that score. Individual songs from the musical, such as “Somewhere," “Maria," and “Tonight," have become standards in everybody's book. For Dave Grusin's look at the familiar theater score, he's brought together a core rhythm section that includes John Patitucci ...

Dave Grusin: Two for the Road

by Dave Hughes
November 1, 1997

What can you say about Dave Grusin that hasn't already been said? He's quite simply one of the most universally talented musicians alive today. He's done it all: pianist, composer, arranger, producer, label owner, soundtrack scorer. Unfortunately, with all his other commitments and undertakings, Dave Grusin albums have become fewer and farther between.

This new one is worth the wait! In keeping with the format of two previous albums, this one is a tribute album to Henry Mancini. (The previous ...

Dave Grusin: Two For The Road

by Douglas Payne
July 1, 1997

Jazz has always loved the music of Henry Mancini and, lately, quite a few albums have been released in tribute to the late film composer. But this one makes sense: a film composer with a vivid imagination and a deep respect for jazz gets interpreted by a jazz player who himself has scored many films over the last 30 years. Grusin, in his third of recent tribute discs (Duke Ellington and George Gershwin were the others), is very well suited ...

Lee Ritenhaur and Dave Grusin: Brasil

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 23, 2024

Just as sunshine pop offered a counterweight to psychedelic hard rock in the late 1960s, soft jazz evolved in the 1970s as a lighter FM alternative to the mystical psychedelic jazz fusion movement. Two artists who helped pioneer soft jazz were guitarist Lee Ritenour and keyboardist Dave Grusin. Mind you, these categories weren't exclusive. There was plenty of crossover by musicians between the two genres. Now Ritenour and Grusin have teamed up on the newly released Brasil (Candid). Recorded in ...
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GRP Record Label Artists Pay Tribute To Its Founder Dave Grusin At New Jersey Performing Arts Center, November 17th

Source: AMT Public Relations
October 24, 2023

As part of NJPAC's TD James Moody Festival sponsored by TD Bank “Dave Grusin’s 40-year career in the music business has led him down many paths, and all have been successful for this gifted musician, composer, arranger, recording executive, and cowboy.” —Jazz Times The prolific composer Dave Grusin has over 3,000 credits as composer, producer, arranger, conductor, and performer. He has one Academy Award with eight nominations, 10 Grammy Awards with 30 nominations, and four Golden Globe nominations. Audiences will ...
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Dave Grusin "Mulholland Falls"

Source: Sound Insights by Doug Payne
June 5, 2011

While Dave Grusin has crafted many a musically memorable soundtrack, highlights of which probably include The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (1968), The Yakuza (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), On Golden Pond (1981) and Tootsie (1982), he is probably a more remarkable and more remarkably unheralded sound colorist, expertly matching music so seamlessly to an image as to be ambient sound. It's like a breeze blowing through a room, or the aural aura of unspoken emotion wafting through ...
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An Evening with Dave Grusin

Source: Sound Insights by Doug Payne
May 2, 2011

The music of the great composer, pianist, conductor and arranger Dave Grusin has graced many a jazz album and film/TV soundtrack. And along the way Grusin has scored some particularly notable and memorable music that matter to both genres. Indeed it's difficult to delight in either jazz or film this day in age without appreciating a fraction of the great work Dave Grusin has contributed to both factions, if one considers them separately—though I tend to subscribe to Duke Ellington's ...
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Groundbreaking iPad Music App, An Evening with Dave Grusin, Now Available

Source: Cathy Nevins
April 26, 2011

ROBA Interactive's Groundbreaking Debut iPad Music App “An Evening with Dave Grusin" Now Available

Multi-Media Experience Takes You Deep Into this Landmark Concert Event

ROBA Interactive's first iPad App, An Evening with Dave Grusin, is now available in the iTunes App Store. The groundbreaking multi-media app, conceived and produced by ROBA, contains hours of behind-the-scenes interviews, music and video clips from the historic December 2009 concert performance of multi-Grammy and Oscar-winning jazz recording artist, pianist, composer, and arranger Dave Grusin ...
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Dave Grusin "A Dry White Season"

Source: Sound Insights by Doug Payne
February 3, 2011

More than twenty years following the release of the 1989 film A Dry White Season and on the 21st anniversary of the release of political prisoner Nelson Mandela—which signaled the end of South African Apartheid—the film-music specialists, Kritzerland, have issued the first-ever soundtrack to the riveting 1989 film that starred Donald Sutherland, Susan Sarandon and Marlon Brando (in a terrifically understated performance that was his first film appearance since 1980's The Formula). This film, along with many musical outpourings from ...
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The Columbus Jazz Orchestra and Dave Grusin Spend a Night at the Movies Featuring the Music of Henry Mancini

Source: Michael Ricci
December 8, 2010

The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) is getting ready to roll out the red carpet for the Columbus Jazz Orchestra's next installment of the Great American Songbook season with Grammy Award-winning film composer Dave Grusin. From Mancini favorites “The Pink Panther Theme" and “Baby Elephant Walk" to movie classics like “Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and “As Time Goes By," A Night at the Movies (January 14-15) will revisit some of the most memorable movie music ever written. When legendary ...
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Live Webcast- Dave Grusin and Lee Ritenour perform songs from Two Worlds on 9/28

Source: All About Jazz

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