Dave Grusin

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David Grusin (born June 26, 1934 in Littleton, Colorado) is a sterling composer, arranger and pianist. He has a tender, humorous and thunderous command of music. This is on display in his compositions, arrangements, and piano tracks. These works, many of which are in films and television, have garnered him numerous awards. He is often labeled as a jazz artist.

Grusin has a filmography of about 100 credits with many awards including an Oscar for best original score for The Milagro Beanfield War, as well as Oscar nominations for The Champ, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Firm, Havana, Heaven Can Wait, and On Golden Pond. He also received a best original song nomination for "It Might Be You" from the film Tootsie. Six of the fourteen cuts on the sound track from movie The Graduate are his. Other films he composed include Three Days of the Condor, The Goonies, Tequila Sunrise, Hope Floats, and Random Hearts.

For television, he was the conductor for The Andy Williams Show (1963-1965) and the composer of the theme songs for such series as Dan August (1970), Maude (1972), Good Times (1974), Baretta (1975), and St. Elsewhere (1982). He also composed music for individual episodes of each of those shows. His other TV credits include It Takes a Thief, The Wild Wild West, and Columbo - Prescription: Murder (1968), He also did the theme song for One Life to Live (1968) from 1984-92

About thirty-five Dave Grusin CD titles are currently available including soundtracks, originals, collections, and homages to jazz greats George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, and Henry Mancini.

Grusin and Larry Rosen co-founded GRP Records in 1982. In 1994, GRP was in charge of MCA's (soon to be renamed Universal Music Group) jazz operations. Founders Grusin and Rosen left in 1995 and were replaced by Tommy LiPuma. In 1997, Grusin and Rosen co-founded N2K Encoded Music(after renamed N-Coded Music).

Dave is the father of music editor Stuart and elder brother of keyboardist Don Grusin.

1 Awards and recognition
2 Discography
3 Filmography
4 Quotes
5 External link

[edit] Awards and recognition

Academy Award Nominee, 1978 "Best Original Score" Heaven Can Wait
Academy Award Nominee, 1979 "Best Original Score" The Champ
Academy Award Nominee, 1981 "Best Original Score" On Golden Pond
Academy Award Nominee, 1982 "Best Original Song" It Might Be You, from Tootsie
Golden Globe Nominee, 1988 "Best Original Score" The Milagro Beanfield War
Academy Award Winner, 1988 "Best Original Score" The Milagro Beanfield War
Academy Award Nominee, 1989 "Best Original Score" The Fabulous Baker Boys
Golden Globe Nominee, 1989 "Best Original Score" The Fabulous Baker Boys
Grammy Award Winner, 1989 "Best Album, Original Background Score for a Motion Picture or Television" The Fabulous Baker Boys
Grammy Award Winner, 1989 "Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals" My Funny Valentine
Academy Award Nominee, 1990 "Best Original Score" Havana
Golden Globe Nominee, 1990 "Best Original Score" Havana
Grammy Award Winner, 1990 "Best Album of Original Instrumantal Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television" The Fabulous Baker Boys
Grammy Award Winner, 1990 "Best Arrangement on an Instrumantal" Suite for The Milagro Beanfield War
Grammy Award Winner, 1991 "Best Arrangement on an Instrumental" Bess You Is My Woman/I Loves You Porgy
Golden Globe Nominee, 1991 "Best Original Score" For The Boys
Academy Award Nominee, 1993 "Best Original Score" The Firm
Grammy Award Winner, 1993 "Best Arrangement on an Instrumental" Mood Indigo
Grammy Award Winner, 1994 "Best Instrumental Arrangement" Three Cowboy Songs
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s), 2002, "Mean Old Man", from the album October Road by James Taylor

[edit] Discography

Subways are for Sleeping - 1962
Piano, Strings, and Moonlight - 1963
Kaleidoscope - 1964
One of A Kind - 1977
Mountain Dance - 1979
Out of the Shadows - 1982
Night LInes - 1983
NY/LA Dream Band - 1984
Harlequin (w/ Lee Ritenour) - 1985
Cinemagic - 1987
Collection - 1988
Sticks and Stones (w/Don Grusin) - 1988
The Fabulous Baker Boys (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1989
Migration - 1989
Havana (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1990
The Gershwin Connection - 1991
The Firm (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1993
Dave Grusin and the GRP All-Star Big Band - 1993
Homage to Duke - 1993
The Orchestral Album - 1994
The Cure (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1995
Two For the Road - 1996
Mulholland Falls (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1996
Dave Grusin Presents - West Side Story - 1997
Random Hearts (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1999
Two Worlds (w/ Lee Ritenour) - 2000
The Very Best of Dave Grusin - 2002
Now Playing:Movie Themes - Solo Piano - 2005

[edit] Filmography

Divorce American Style - 1967
The Graduate - 1967
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - 1968
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out - 1968
Winning - 1969
Tell Them Willie Boy is Here - 1969
Shootout - 1971
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight - 1971
The Friends of Eddie Coyle - 1973
The Midnight Man - 1974
Three Days of the Condor - 1975
Murder by Death - 1976
The Goodbye Girl - 1977
Bobby Deerfield - 1977
Heaven Can wait - 1978
The Electric Horseman - 1979
...And Justice For All - 1979
The Champ - 1979
My Bodyguard - 1980
On Golden Pond - 1981
Absence of Malice - 1981
Reds - 1981
Tootsie - 1982
Author! Author! - 1982
The Little Drummer Girl - 1984
Falling in Love - 1984
Racing With the Moon - 1984
The Goonies - 1985
Lucas - 1985
Ishtar - 1997
The Milagro Beanfield war - 1998
Tequila Sunrise - 1988
The Fabulous Baker Boys - 1989
Havana - 1990
Bonfire of the Vanities - 1990
For the Boys - 1991
The Firm - 1993
The Cure - 1995
Mulholland Falls - 1996

[edit] Quotes

"In my career I've found that "thinking outside the box" works better if I know what's inside the box." In music (as in life) we need to understand our pertinent history...and moving on is so much easier once we know where we've been."