Hot Dawg!
Hot Dawg!
Originally shared by Randy Culler
David "Dawg" Grisman is 73 years old today
commentary from Frank Beacham
A bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music, Grisman started the Acoustic Disc record label in the early 1990s to help spread acoustic and instrumental music.
Growing up in a Conservative Jewish household in Hackensack, New Jersey, Grisman started his musical career in 1963 as a member of the 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, Pennsylvania).
"Dawg Music" is what he calls his mixture of bluegrass and Django Reinhardt/Stéphane Grappelli-influenced jazz, as highlighted on his album, Hot Dawg (recorded Oct. 1978, released 1979).
Stephane Grappelli played on a couple of tracks on Hot Dawg 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 had young David begin 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. Following his father's death, when David was 10, he drifted away from the piano.
He took it up again when he was about 13 or 14, soon discovering 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 about traditional music.
During this period, Greenwich Village in New York City was already bustling with folk musicians, and David realized what he wanted to do with his life. In 1963, Grisman played in the Even Dozen Jug Band, who 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 perform with Red Allen and the Kentuckians until 1966.
Also in 1966, Grisman recorded Early Dawg, a live recording from a show in New York that featured the talents of Del McCoury on guitar and vocals and Jerry McCoury on bass. The album was not released until 1980. Grisman then 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.
It was while with this group that Garcia gave him his nickname, after a dog he saw behind Grisman while they were driving in Stinson Beach.
In 1974, Grisman, Rowan and Richard Greene joined Bill Keith, and the late Clarence White, 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 (DGQ), which released its first album in 1977.
Grisman also played mandocello on Bonnie Raitt's album, Sweet Forgiveness (1977). In addition to performing with the Quintet, 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 and Samson Grisman on upright bass. He has also recorded an album and toured as a duo with John Sebastian.
Here, Grisman joins Tony Rice, Mark O'Connor and Rob Wasserman
https://youtu.be/x05z27blg80
Originally shared by Randy Culler
David "Dawg" Grisman is 73 years old today
commentary from Frank Beacham
A bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music, Grisman started the Acoustic Disc record label in the early 1990s to help spread acoustic and instrumental music.
Growing up in a Conservative Jewish household in Hackensack, New Jersey, Grisman started his musical career in 1963 as a member of the 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, Pennsylvania).
"Dawg Music" is what he calls his mixture of bluegrass and Django Reinhardt/Stéphane Grappelli-influenced jazz, as highlighted on his album, Hot Dawg (recorded Oct. 1978, released 1979).
Stephane Grappelli played on a couple of tracks on Hot Dawg 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 had young David begin 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. Following his father's death, when David was 10, he drifted away from the piano.
He took it up again when he was about 13 or 14, soon discovering 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 about traditional music.
During this period, Greenwich Village in New York City was already bustling with folk musicians, and David realized what he wanted to do with his life. In 1963, Grisman played in the Even Dozen Jug Band, who 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 perform with Red Allen and the Kentuckians until 1966.
Also in 1966, Grisman recorded Early Dawg, a live recording from a show in New York that featured the talents of Del McCoury on guitar and vocals and Jerry McCoury on bass. The album was not released until 1980. Grisman then 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.
It was while with this group that Garcia gave him his nickname, after a dog he saw behind Grisman while they were driving in Stinson Beach.
In 1974, Grisman, Rowan and Richard Greene joined Bill Keith, and the late Clarence White, 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 (DGQ), which released its first album in 1977.
Grisman also played mandocello on Bonnie Raitt's album, Sweet Forgiveness (1977). In addition to performing with the Quintet, 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 and Samson Grisman on upright bass. He has also recorded an album and toured as a duo with John Sebastian.
Here, Grisman joins Tony Rice, Mark O'Connor and Rob Wasserman
https://youtu.be/x05z27blg80
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