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Jerry Granelli

Jerry Granelli

Jerry Granelli has been played on NTS in shows including Patrick Forge, featured first on 19 September 2016. Songs played include I'm Nobody, Aslan and Love Song For U.

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.

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Jerry Granelli

Jerry Granelli has been played on NTS in shows including Patrick Forge, featured first on 19 September 2016. Songs played include I'm Nobody, Aslan and Love Song For U.

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.

Original source: Last.fm

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I'm Nobody
Jay Clayton, Jerry Granelli
JMT Productions1986
Aslan
Jerry Granelli
Excalibur Inc.1978
Love Song For U
Jerry Granelli
Divorce2010