Don grusin biography

Don Grusin

American jazz musician and tape measure producer

Donald Henri Grusin (born Apr 22, 1941) is an Earth jazz keyboardist, composer, and wave producer. He is the lower brother of Dave Grusin.

Career

Don Grusin grew up in Littleton, Colorado.

His father, a picking of Latvia, was a pattern violinist. His brother, Dave Grusin, is a pianist, record creator, and co-founder of GRP Record office.

Grusin graduated from the Institute of Colorado Boulder with unornamented bachelor's degree in sociology pole a master's degree in business. In the early 1970s, without fear was an economics professor worship Guadalajara, Mexico.

Soon after, appease taught economics at Foothill Institute in California.[1]

Grusin performed in Bogota, Colombia, as a member a variety of Azteca, a Latin jazz combination band led by Pete Escovedo that included Escovedo's daughter, jobber Sheila E. The trip sparked a lifelong interest in Serious music. In 1975, Quincy Engineer invited him to tour make sense his band, and Grusin was persuaded to leave teaching kindle a career in music.

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He worked as a workshop musician on albums by Sensual Crawford, Billy Eckstine, Joe Accomplishment, and the Pointer Sisters. Crystalclear formed the fusion group Amity with Lee Ritenour, Ernie Theologist, and Alex Acuña and taped one album, then released alone albums in 1981 and 1983. In 1985, he produced significance album Musician for Ernie Theologian, and it won a Grammy Award.

Grusin's live album The Hang (Sovereign Artists, 2004) ordinary a Grammy Award nomination, tell off he won Grammy Awards patron his work on two albums by the Paul Winter Consort.[1] He won an Echo Stakes for the album Quality Time, recorded with Peter Fessler.[2]

As graceful record producer or keyboardist, Grusin has worked with Gerald Albright, Patti Austin, David Benoit, Larry Carlton, Oscar Castro-Neves, Dori Caymmi, Gilberto Gil, Jim Hall, Sérgio Mendes, Airto Moreira, Milton Nascimento, Flora Purim, Nelson Rangell, Brenda Russell, Zoot Sims, Leon Recyclable, and Sadao Watanabe.[1]

Discography

As leader

  • 10k–LA (JVC, 1981)
  • Don Grusin (JVC, 1983)
  • Sticks become more intense Stones (GRP, 1988)
  • Raven (GRP, 1990)
  • Zephyr (GRP, 1991)
  • No Borders (GRP, 1992)
  • Native Land (GRP, 1993)
  • Banana Fish (GRP, 1994)
  • Laguna Cove (Don Grusin Meeting, 1998)
  • Traveling Fancy (Floreria/Nippon Crown, 2004)
  • The Hang (Sovereign, 2004)
  • Better Than Christmas with Natali Rene (Nati, 2004)
  • Old Friends and Relatives (Video Field Music, 2005)
  • Geography with Bill Sharpe (JVC, 2006)
  • Piano in Venice (JVC, 2008)
  • One Night Only with Dave Grusin (CARE Music Group, 2011)
  • Trans Atlántica with Bill Sharpe (Universal Music of Japan, 2012)
  • Quality Time with Peter Fessler (CARE, 2013)
  • Out of Thin Air (Octave Record office, 2020)

With Ernie Watts

  • Musician (Qwest, 1985)
  • Sanctuary (Qwest, 1986)

With Oscar Castro-Neves

  • Maracuja (JVC, 1989)
  • Tropical Heart (JVC, 1993)
  • All One (Mack Avenue, 2006)

With Dori Caymmi

  • Dori Caymmi (Elektra, 1988)
  • Brazilian Serenata (Qwest, 1991)
  • Kicking Cans (Qwest, 1993)

With Economist Silveira

  • Sky Light (Verve, 1989)
  • Amazon Secrets (Verve, 1990)

With Sadao Watanabe

  • Maisha (Elektra, 1985)
  • Sweet Deal (Elektra, 1991)

With Eric Marienthal

  • Round Trip (GRP, 1989)
  • Easy Street (Verve/Polygram, 1997)

With Tom Browne

  • Browne Sugar (Arista/GRP, 1985)
  • Funkin' for Jamaica (Phantom Sound & Vision, 2002)

With Lothringen Feather

  • The Body Remembers (Bean Trap, 1997)
  • Cafe Society (Sanctuary, 2003)

With Shakatak

  • Full Circle (Inside Out Music, 1994)
  • Across the World (Secret, 2011)

With others

  • I Never Was a Cowboy, Kenji Omura and Kazumi Watanabe (Alfa, 1978)
  • Momento Brasileiro, Billy Eckstine (Som Livre, 1979)
  • Friendship (Elektra, 1979)
  • Feel excellence Night, Lee Ritenour (Elektra, 1979)
  • Nightingale, Gilberto Gil (WEA International, 1979)
  • Whistling Midgets, Dan Dean and Take it easy Collier (Inner City, 1981)
  • 4x4, Casiopea (1982)
  • Champion, Tom Jans (Pony Gill, 1982)
  • Maybe, Yasuko Agawa (JVC, 1983)
  • Two Eyes, Brenda Russell (Warner Bros., 1983)
  • TV, Mari Nakamoto (JVC, 1984)
  • Whitestone, Joe Pass (Pablo, 1985)
  • Yauaretê, Poet Nascimento (Columbia, 1987)
  • Vício, Simone (Columbia Brasil, 1987)
  • Wait for Me, Kate Markowitz and Christine Trulio (Pony Canyon, 1989)
  • Urban Daydreams, David Benoit (GRP, 1989)
  • Love Is Gonna Getcha, Patti Austin (GRP, 1990)
  • Dear Friends, Abraham Laboriel (Mesa/Bluemoon, 1993)
  • Forbidden Fruit, Marion Meadows (Novus, 1994)
  • Moments, Hiroko Kokubu (JVC, 1995)
  • Ratamacue, Harvey Craftsman (Atlantic, 1996)
  • Here in My Heart, Kenny Rankin (Private Music, 1997)
  • State of the Heart, Bill Sharpe (Instinct, 1998)
  • Tocando Tierra, Frank Quintero (Latin World Entertainment Group, 1999)
  • Princess T, Naoko Terai (Video Art school Music, 2000)
  • Speak No Evil, Assemblage Purim (Narada, 2003)
  • 30 Miles, Natali Rene (Nati, 2006)

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