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Jerry Granelli
12+ albums
jazzFusionjazz fusionpercussionbluesrock
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Jerry Granelli (* 30. December 1940 in San Francisco; † 20. July 2021 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) a Halifax-based percussionist-composer, grew up in San Francisco where he studied with Joe Morello and drummed for pianists Denny Zeitlin and Vince Guaraldi (he's on A Charlie Brown Christmas - on Fantasy Records and the Charlie Brown TV soundtracks). He pioneered world jazz fusion and electro-acoustic percussion during the 60's hippie era, established the music department at the Naropa Institute in Boulder in '76, and has had a continuous teaching career since then in Boulder, Seattle, Halifax and Berlin. In the early '80s he performed and recorded in a trio with Ralph Towner and Gary Peacock for ECM. He has recorded as a leader for Evidence, Intuition, ITM, Koch, Love Slave and other labels, and performed and recorded with longtime musical associates Mose Allison, Jay Clayton, Jane Ira Bloom, Glen Moore, Anthony Cox, Dave Friedman, and Jamie Saft, as well as projects with Bill Frisell, Robben Ford, Julian Priester, Charlie Haden, Kenny Garrett, and Buck 65. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
albums
News From The Street
Sandhills Reunion
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A Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing (feat. Kenny Garrett, Julian Priester, Bill Frisell, Robben Ford & Anthony Cox)
The V16 Project
A Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing
Music Has Its Way With Me
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Dance Hall (feat. Robben Ford, Bill Frisell, and J. Anthony Granelli)
Dance Hall
Broken Circle
1313
Crowd Theory
Vancouver '08