Mini-reviews of recent CD releases:David Grisman Quintet, Dawgs Groove and David Grisman Bluegrass Experience, DGBXproduced by Grisman(Acoustic Disc)Thirty years ago, mandolinist David Grisman grabbed ...

Mandolinist David Grisman has spent the past three decades playing what he calls “dawg” music, which is essentially a mix swing, bluegrass, Latin, jazz and gypsy. While the line-up of his band has ...

David Grisman calls it a “confluence of events” that dragged him into the recording business in 1989. Grisman, who had led the accomplished, influential David Grisman Quintet since the mid-’70s, was ...

With his imposing rabbinical beard and dark flashing eyes, David Grisman resembles a Renaissance rendering of an Old Testament patriarch. Which isn’t to say that he affects a biblical persona. The ...

The David Grisman Quintet performs Friday, June 22 at the Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, located at Bartley Ranch in Reno For more than 40 years, mandolinist and composer Grisman has been busy ...

David Grisman needs no introduction to fans of bluegrass and folk music. The virtuoso mandolin player has been keeping the flame of acoustic music alive for 50 years now, sharing his talents with ...

With his imposing rabbinical beard and dark flashing eyes, David Grisman resembles a Renaissance rendering of an Old Testament patriarch. Which isn’t to say that he affects a biblical persona. The ...

The David Grisman Quintet, as any hippie/jazzbo hybrid can tell you, plays dawg music. That s a heady blend of bluegrass, swing, Django-inspired gypsy jazz and assorted Latin flavors. For the ...

If you're going to improvise on string-band instruments, you eventually reach a point where you have to leave the standard chord changes and choppy rhythms of bluegrass behind and leap into the world ...

When a player is as obscenely skilled as mandolinist David Grisman, the risk is that the music will be so technically proficient that the performance will slip into auto-snore mode. Chances are high ...

The current David Grisman Quintet bears only a passing resemblance to its all-strings original line-up, with flute and drums in place of fiddle and second mandolin.Grisman has also focused his gaze ...