DAVE GRUSIN Vinyl Records and CDs

Aside from rap metal, jazz keyboardist Dave Grusin has just about done it all. He started out as a swinging Hard Bopper, before his long stint as Andy Williams' musical director in 1959 and well before he hit the big time with the soundtrack to The Graduate in '67. Since then, he's kept one foot in movie work and forged a special bond with director Sydney Pollock (his pre-Acid Jazz work on Three Days of the Condor and his all acoustic piano score for The Firm being two notable examples of their partnership). Meanwhile, the other foot kept playing jazz and arranging charts for major acts. Grusin also helped forge the current mainstream instrumental sound by co-founding GRP records, a label that often celebrates rather bland Smooth Jazz, occasionally reissuing key albums from the past, and every so often letting a grand master cut loose. Grusin's film scores have been nominated for numerous Academy Awards. He took an Oscar home for The Milagro Beanfield War.