Grant Gordy’s Self Titled Debut Album“Along with master flatpicker Tony Rice, David “Dawg” Grisman pioneered a style known as “dawg music,” blending Django Reinhardt/Hot Club jazz with bluegrass. Grant Gordy is Grisman’s current guitarist, and here, Gordy steps out on his own with a solo album. Do we really need another album of dawg music from one of Grisman’s followers? Yes, we do, and here’s why. Most of the players who have latched onto Grisman’s style have drawn heavily from the Django side of things. Few take bebop or post-bop seriously at all. Grant Gordy does. He draws as much from the style of jazz developed by Miles Davis’ second quintet (the one with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams) as he does from gypsy jazz. The result is that his fluid and elegant flatpicking is unpredictable, even to the most jaded worshipper of David Grier. Sure, there are hints of Django, and Gordy is obviously a big fan of Tony Rice and David Grier, but once you hear him, you will know that you are listening to someone new.” -Amazon.com listener review |
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Additional Albums Featuring Grant
- Interstate Cowboy: “There’s a Road” (2007)
- Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko: “Africa to Appalachia” (2008)
- Dominick Leslie and Sandra Wong: “Sunny Side Up” (2010)
- Alex Hargreaves: “Prelude” (2010)
- Jayme Stone: “Room of Wonders” (2010)
- David Grisman Quintet: “DGQ Live at Bonnaroo” (DVD, 2010)
- Kyle James Hauser: “Oh Oh” (2011)
- David Grisman Quintet: “Live at the Count Basie Theater” (2011)
- Jake Schepps: “An Evening in the Village: the Music of Béla Bartók” (2011)
- Billy Cardine: “Six String Swing” (2012)
- Taarka: “Seed Gathering for a Winter Garden” (2012)
- Emy Phelps: “Look Up, Look Down” (2012)
- Miranda Sykes and Rex Preson: “Sing a Full Song” (2013)