DAVID GRISMAN

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David Grisman (born March 23, 1945 in Hackensack, New Jersey) is an American bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc record label to help spread acoustic and instrumental music.

Grisman grew up in a Conservative Jewish household in Hackensack, New Jersey. He started his musical career in 1963 as a member of 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
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DAVID GRISMAN The David Grisman Quintet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The David Grisman Quintet
Swing 1977
DAVID GRISMAN Hot Dawg album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Hot Dawg
Swing 1979
DAVID GRISMAN Quintet '80 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Quintet '80
Swing 1980
DAVID GRISMAN Mondo Mando album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mondo Mando
Swing 1981
DAVID GRISMAN Dawg Jazz/Dawg Grass album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Dawg Jazz/Dawg Grass
Swing 1983
DAVID GRISMAN Acousticity album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Acousticity
Swing 1984
DAVID GRISMAN Svingin' with Svend album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Svingin' with Svend
Swing 1987
DAVID GRISMAN Dawg '90 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dawg '90
Swing 1991
DAVID GRISMAN Tone Poems - The Sound Of Great Vintage Guitars & Mandolins album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tone Poems - The Sound Of Great Vintage Guitars & Mandolins
Swing 1994
DAVID GRISMAN Tone Poems II - Th Sounds Of The Great Jazz Guitars, Mandolins, Mandolas & Mandocellos album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tone Poems II - Th Sounds Of The Great Jazz Guitars, Mandolins, Mandolas & Mandocellos
Swing 1995
DAVID GRISMAN Dawganova album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dawganova
Latin Jazz 1995
DAVID GRISMAN Dawg Duos album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dawg Duos
World Fusion 1999
DAVID GRISMAN David Grisman & Tony Rice : Tone Poems 3 - The Sounds of the Great Slide & Resophonic Instruments album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
David Grisman & Tony Rice : Tone Poems 3 - The Sounds of the Great Slide & Resophonic Instruments
Swing 2000
DAVID GRISMAN New River album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
New River
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2001
DAVID GRISMAN Dawg's Groove album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dawg's Groove
Swing 2006
DAVID GRISMAN Muddy Roads: Old-time Music of Clarence Ashley & Doc Watson album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Muddy Roads: Old-time Music of Clarence Ashley & Doc Watson
World Fusion 2013

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DAVID GRISMAN Jerry Garcia & David Grisman : So What album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jerry Garcia & David Grisman : So What
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1998
DAVID GRISMAN Live at Wigmore Hall 4/21/96 (with Martin Taylor) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live at Wigmore Hall 4/21/96 (with Martin Taylor)
Swing 2011
DAVID GRISMAN David Grisman Quintet : 25th Year Reunion Concert album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
David Grisman Quintet : 25th Year Reunion Concert
Swing 2011
DAVID GRISMAN David Grisman & Del McCoury : Del & Dawg Live! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
David Grisman & Del McCoury : Del & Dawg Live!
World Fusion 2016
DAVID GRISMAN The Original David Grisman Quintet Live in Dawg’s Living Room album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Original David Grisman Quintet Live in Dawg’s Living Room
World Fusion 2022

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