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DGQ-20
''DGQ-20'' is a 1996 compilation album by American musician David Grisman, recorded with his group David Grisman Quintet. Spanning the period from 1976 to 1996, this triple-CD set offers 39 songs, 18 of which were not released by Grisman before. Musicians include Tony Rice, Béla Fleck, Sam Bush, Mark O'Connor, Stephane Grappelli and others. The album includes both live and studio performances and contains collaborations with Svend Asmussen, Jethro Burns, Vassar Clements and others. Many genres are blended here, including classic American pop, instrumental jazz, Klezmer, Latin, folk, bluegrass and classical music. Retrieved November 2009. Track listing Disc 1 (1976 - 1981) # Introductions # Cedar Hill (Grisman) # Theme From Capone (Grisman) # Dawg Patch (Grisman) ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawganova
''Dawganova'' is a 1995 all-instrumental album by American musician David Grisman, recorded with his group The David Grisman Quintet. It's a unique collection of Latin rhythms and melodies inspired by the group's newest member, Argentine guitar virtuoso, Enrique Coria. Five Grisman originals are accompanied by classical Latin standards: "El Cumbanchero", "Tico Tico", "Manha de Carnaval" and the Nat "King" Cole classic "Nature Boy". In his Allmusic review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated "Grisman's distinctive blend of bluegrass, folk, jazz, and, in this case, latin music is energetic and very impressive." Allmusic entry for ''Dawganova''.Retrieved November 2009. Track listing All songs by David Grisman unless otherwise noted. # "Dawganova" – 6:50 # "Manha de Carnaval" (Luiz Bonfá) – 7:06 # "Barkley's Bug" – 5:37 # "Nature Boy" (eden ahbez) – 7:49 # "El Cumbanchero" (Rafael Hernández Marín) – 4:38 # "Brazilian Breeze" – 5:55 # "Tico Tico" (Zequinha de Abreu) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawgnation
''Dawgnation'' is an album by the David Grisman Quintet led by mandolinist David Grisman. Track listing Personnel * David Grisman – mandolin, mandola * Enrique Coria – guitar, whistle * Matt Eakle – flute, bass flute * Jim Kerwin – double bass * Joe Craven Joe Craven is an American freestyle folk, world and roots music multi-instrumentalist, singer and educator. He is the Director of RiverTunes Music Camp and a Co-Director of the Wintergrass Youth Academy. He plays a wide variety of string instr ... – percussion, violin, mandolin References {{Authority control 2002 albums David Grisman albums Acoustic Disc albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Grisman Quintet (band)
The David Grisman Quintet is a self-styled alternative bluegrass/acoustic jazz band founded by David Grisman in 1975 in San Francisco, California, US. The quintet draws from genres including Bill Monroe's bluegrass legacy and Django Reinhard's 1930s swing. Since its formation, the Quintet's members have included guitarist Tony Rice and multiinstrumentalists Mark O'Connor, Mike Marshall, Darol Anger and Jon Sholle. The Quintet has performed and recorded with guests such as violinist Stephane Grapelli, and remains active. The National Public Radio program ''Car Talk'' uses the band's instrumental "Dawggy Mountain Breakdown" as its theme music. Discography The following albums have been released by the David Grisman Quintet: *''The David Grisman Quintet'' - 1977 *''Hot Dawg'' - 1978 *''Quintet '80'' - 1980 *''Mondo Mando'' - 1981 *''Dawg '90'' - 1990 *''Dawgwood'' - 1993 *''Dawganova'' - 1995 *''DGQ-20'' - 1996 *''Dawgnation'' - 2002 *''Dawg's Groove ''Dawg's Groove'' is a 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot
''Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot'' is a compilation album by United States, American guitarist Tony Rice, released in 1996. It contains tracks written by Gordon Lightfoot and previously recorded by Rice, plus a previously unreleased track, "Whispers of the North". Track listing All songs by Gordon Lightfoot # "Go My Way" – 2:48 # "Home from the Forest" – 4:17 # "Fine as Fine Can Be" – 3:24 # "Let It Ride" – 2:59 # "I'm Not Sayin'" – 2:15 # "Bitter Green" – 2:43 # "You Are What I Am" – 2:22 # "Shadows" – 3:43 # "Walls" – 1:59 # "Whispers of the North" – 4:17 # "Ten Degrees (Getting Colder)" – 2:18 # "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" – 4:59 # "Early Morning Rain" – 3:04 # "Whisper My Name" – 3:19 # "Sixteen Miles" – 2:45 # "Cold on the Shoulder" – 2:34 # "Song for a Winter's Night" – 3:09 Personnel *Tony Rice – guitar, vocals *Sam Bush – mandolin, violin, background vocals *Norman Blake (American musician), Norman Blake – guitar, mando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tone Poems 2
''Tone Poems 2'' is an album by American mandolinist David Grisman and British guitarist Martin Taylor that was released in 1995 by Grisman's label, Acoustic Music. It is a sequel to '' Tone Poems'', his collaboration with bluegrass guitarist Tony Rice. This is a jazz-oriented recording on which Grisman and Taylor play a variety of vintage, fretted, acoustic instruments. They use 41 guitars, mandolins, mandolas, mandocellos, and tenor guitars. Track listing # " Swanee" (George Gershwin, Irving Caesar) – 4:22 # "Teasin' the Frets" ( Nick Lucas) – 1:53 # " It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 3:15 # "Please" ( Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 3:14 # "Mood Indigo" (Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills) – 3:09 # " Anything Goes" (Cole Porter) – 2:06 # "Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 4:24 # "Lulu's Back In Town" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 2:59 # "Tears" ( Stéphane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt) – 3:10 # " Jeepers Creepers" (Warren, Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vassar Clements
Vassar Carlton Clements (April 25, 1928 – August 16, 2005) was an American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical traditions. Biography Clements was born in Kinard, Florida and grew up in Kissimmee. He taught himself to play the fiddle at age 7, learning "There's an Old Spinning Wheel in the Parlor" as his first song. Soon, he joined with two first cousins, Red and Gerald, to form a local string band. In his early teens Clements met Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys when they came to Florida to visit Clements' stepfather, a friend of fiddler Chubby Wise. Clements was impressed with his playing. In late 1949, Wise left Monroe's group, and the 21 year-old Clements traveled by bus to ask for an audition. When told he would have to return the next day, Clements was crestfallen, lacking the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz composer, pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", " 500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and "Windows" are widely considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis's band in the late 1960s, he participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever. Along with McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, and Keith Jarrett, Corea is considered one of the foremost jazz pianists of the post-John Coltrane era. Corea continued to collaborate frequently while exploring different musical styles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He won 27 Grammy Awards and was nominated more than 60 times. Early life and education Armando Corea was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts on June 12, 1941, to parents Anna (née Zaccone) and Armando J. Corea. He was of southern Italian descent, his father having been born to an immigrant from Albi co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darol Anger
Darol Anger is an American violinist and founding member of The David Grisman Quintet. Career Darol Anger entered popular music at the age of 21 as a founding member of The David Grisman Quintet. Anger played fiddle to David Grisman's mandolin in The David Grisman Quintet's (DGQ) 1977 debut. He co-founded and named the Turtle Island String Quartet with David Balakrishnan in 1985 and performed, composed, and arranged for the chamber jazz group. He frequently collaborates with fellow DGQ alumnus Mike Marshall. Anger met pianist Barbara Higbie in Paris and formed a musical partnership with her. Together they released an early record on Windham Hill, ''Tideline'' (1982). Two years later, they formed a group called The Darol Anger/Barbara Higbie Quintet with Mike Marshall, Todd Phillips, and Andy Narell. This group performed at the 1984 Montreux Jazz Festival. The quintet later took the name Montreux. After two studio releases, the band broke up in 1990, and Anger continued wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Django Reinhardt
Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani nickname Django ( or ), was a Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe and has been hailed as one of its most significant exponents. With violinist Stéphane Grappelli, Reinhardt formed the Paris-based Quintette du Hot Club de France in 1934. The group was among the first to play jazz that featured the guitar as a lead instrument. Reinhardt recorded in France with many visiting American musicians, including Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, and briefly toured the United States with Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1946. He died suddenly of a stroke in 1953 at the age of 43. Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become standards within gypsy jazz, including " Minor Swing", "Daphne", "Belleville", "Djangology", "Swing '42", and "Nuages". Jazz guitarist Frank Vignola says that nearly every major popular-music guitarist in the world has been influe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compilation Album
A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several Performing arts#Performers, performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may be collected together as a greatest hits album or box set. If from several performers, there may be a theme, topic, time period, or genre which links the tracks, or they may have been intended for release as a single work—such as a tribute album. When the tracks are by the same recording artist, the album may be referred to as a retrospective album or an anthology. Content and scope Songs included on a compilation album may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svend Asmussen
Svend Asmussen (28 February 1916 – 7 February 2017) was a Danish jazz violinist, known as "The Fiddling Viking". A Swing style virtuoso, he played and recorded with many of the other jazz musicians, including Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Stephane Grappelli. He played publicly until 2010 when he had a blood clot, his career having spanned eight decades. Life and career Asmussen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, was raised in a musical family, and started taking violin lessons at the age of seven. Aged 16 he first heard recordings by jazz violinist Joe Venuti and began to emulate his style. He started working professionally as a violinist, vibraphonist, and singer at age 17, leaving his formal training behind for good. Early in his career he worked in Denmark and on cruise ships, with artists such as Josephine Baker and Fats Waller. Asmussen later was greatly influenced by Stuff Smith, whom he met in Denmark. Asmussen played with Valdemar Eiberg and Kjeld Bonfils during Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who achieved worldwide fame as founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Lennon's work was characterised by the rebellious nature and acerbic wit of his music, writing and drawings, on film, and in interviews. His songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history. Born in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the Skiffle#Revival in the United Kingdom, skiffle craze as a teenager. In 1956, he formed The Quarrymen, which evolved into the Beatles in 1960. Sometimes called "the smart Beatle", he was initially the group's de facto leader, a role gradually ceded to McCartney. Lennon soon expanded his work into other media by participating in numerous films, including ''How I Won the War'', and authoring ''In His Own Write'' and ''A Spaniard in the Works'', both collection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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