DON GRUSIN
Pop/Art Song/Folk / Post Bop / Post-Fusion Contemporary • United States
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Born in Colorado and influenced mightily by his immigrant father from Latvia, Don grew up in Colorado as a wannabe cowboy, played sports in school, and always had music as something to fall back on – if you grew up in the Grusin household, you had to practice piano. Don started when he was 6, and his musical influences came from square-dancing to country-western bands at the grange; from pianists Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans and Vladimir Horowitz; to his dad’s strolling through the house playing 2nd violin parts of Bartok string quartets.
Also of influence was their small town R&B radio station where Don digested the music of the great soul and funk bands and singers. This is how Don’s interest in African and Latin American music was born. Adding to this was his older brother Dave, who pointed him, unwittingly really, to the great jazz players of the
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Don Grusin
Pop/Art Song/Folk
1981
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10k-La
Pop/Art Song/Folk
1984
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Raven
Pop/Art Song/Folk
1990
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Zephyr
Pop/Art Song/Folk
1991
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No Borders
Pop/Art Song/Folk
1992
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The Hang
Pop/Art Song/Folk
2004
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