Dave Grusin

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Robert David Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an American composer, arranger, producer, and pianist.

He has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy Award and ten Grammy Awards.

He has had a prolific recording career as an artist, arranger, producer and executive producer.

He is the co-founder of GRP Records.

Early life

Grusin was born in Littleton, Colorado, to Henri and Rosabelle (née de Poyster) Grusin. His mother was a pianist and his father was a violinist from Riga, Latvia. Grusin has one Jewish parent.

Grusin studied music at the University of Colorado at Boulder and received his degree in 1956. Grusin's teachers included Cecil Effinger and Wayne Scott, pianist, arranger and professor of jazz.

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Career

Grusin's first single, "Subways Are for Sleeping," was his first film score for Divorce American Style in 1962. Additional studies were published later, including The Graduate (1967), Winning (1969), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), and Three Days of the Condor (1975).

Grusin formed GRP Records in 1978 with his business partner Larry Rosen and began to produce some of the first commercial digital recordings. Grusin was the composer of On Golden Pond (1981), Tootsie (1982), and The Goonies (1985). For The Milagro Beanfield War, he received the Oscar for best original score in 1988. Grusin created the musical signatures for the 1984 TriStar Pictures logo and the 1993 Columbia Pictures Television logo.

Grusin came in No. 5 in 1998, and he ranked No. 1 in the United States. There are 5 and No. 8 on Billboard's Top ten Jazz Artists, at mid-year and at year's end, respectively based on album sales, "Dave Grusin Presents West Side Story."

Grusin concentrated on creating classical and jazz compositions, touring and recording with colleagues, including jazz singer and lyricist Lorraine Feather and guitarist Lee Ritenour from 2000 to 2011. In 1985, Harlequin's album received a Grammy Award. Both Worlds and Amparo, their classical crossover albums, were nominated for Grammys.

Grusin has a filmography of about 100 titles. His numerous accolades include an Oscar for best original score for The Milagro Beanfield War, as well as Oscar nominations for The Champ, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Havana, Heaven Can Wait, and On Golden Pond. From the film Tootsie, he received a Best Original Song award for his song "It Might Be You." His is six of the fourteen cuts on The Graduate's soundtrack. Grusin has written several film scores, including Where Were They Went Out, Three Days of the Condor, Three Days of the Condor, The Goons, Tequila Sunrise, Hope Floats, Random Hearts, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Mulholland Falls, and The Firm. He conceived the original opening fanfare for film studio TriStar Pictures.

Grusin made theme music for the television shows Good Morning World (1967), It Takes a Thief (1968), The Name of the Game (1968), Dan August (1972), Baretta (1976), St. Antoine (1976), The Sandy Duncan Show (1972), The Sandy Duncan Show (1971-1972). Elsewhere (1982) and Tres Generaciones (1987), a Mexican television company. He produced songs for individual episodes of each of those shows. The Wild West (1966), The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Grusin's other television appearances include The Wild West (1966). (1966) and Columbo (1968): Prescription (corruption): Murder (1968). During the 1984-1985 seasons, he wrote and performed the theme song for One Life to Live (1968). Grusin wrote the music for the "This Is America, Charlie Brown episode "The Smithsonian and the Presidency," as well as two of the episode's "Breadline Blues" (the latter two were covered by Kenny G) on the tribute album Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown.

GRP was in charge of MCA's jazz operations in 1994. Founders Grusin and Rosen left in 1995 and were replaced by Tommy LiPuma. Grusin and Rosen founded N2K Encoded Music in 1997, which was renamed N-Coded Music.

In 1988 and 1989, Grusin received honorary doctorates from Berklee College of Music, as well as University of Colorado, College of Music. Grusin was initiated at the University of Colorado in 1991 and was accepted into the Beta Chi Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

Personal Life

Dave Grusin has been married to Nan Newton for many years, and he has three children, Scott Grusin, Michael Grusin, and Stuart Grusin. He is also the stepfather of Nan's teenage daughter, Annie Vought. Grusin is the star of a new Netflix documentary titled "Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time" in 2018.

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