I'm correcting myself on my other comment. I thought Uwe Karcher played Dave Grusin's arrangement, but it was Dave doing all those fabulous piano improvisations!
I absolutely love it when a bridge just "fits". So many times, composers tend to use a bridge as an afterthought. Mr Grusin almost builds this composition around it. Such an amazingly talented songwriter, composer, and musician. Just saw him @ the Jacksonville Jazz Festival. He's an 89-year-old wonder. Thank you for the many years of beautiful music, sir.
I had given up piano in middle school. It wasn't until I heard the soundtrack to The Firm that I realized how much I enjoyed playing, just not the music that my parents wanted me to learn. So, I bought a used piano and started lessons again after not playing for nearly 30 yrs. Two years later I played Ray's Blues in recital and purchased a new Yamaha upright studio. I'm still playing today.
I can't believe this man is 88 years young! Today is July 7, 2022. Mr. Grusin, this song forever will be in the soundtrack of my life of joys and heartbreaks. Thank you for touching my heart and soul with your beautiful music. 🙏🏼❤
CeeCee, Didn't realize Dave G. was 88yrs in 2022. Certainly one of the greatest treasures in American music. Sad how few people probably realize how influential he's been & how big a force behind the scenes of the music world! This now being 2023 means he will be turning 89. Hard to believe I've been listening & loving his style for 50 yrs. That's right. I believe his album Dave Grusin "Discovered Again" on his own "direct-to-disc" label, Sheffield Records dates from 1973 if I'm correct. I and another friend at the time both owned copies & in the 1990s I updated by purchasing the CD re-release. Sheffield had turned out a number of direct disc recordings in the 1970s & into the 80s. Absolutely some of the best sound ever put on a vinyl disc. After the Sheffield project came a new label under which many famous jazz musicians recorded yet how many people know that Mr Grusin is the "G" in "GRP Records"...?
Dave Grusin and a solo, live performance of his best movie theme song, IT MIGHT BE YOU (for "Tootsie" with lyrics by The Bergmans, Marilyn & Alan). One of my guitar heroes, Lee Ritenour, standing stage right, head bowed in awe at his friend's solo performance. That's Ritenour's Gibson ES-335 on the guitar stand next to Dave's Yamaha. But you knew that. There are two pianistic giants who composed great film music -- both described as "jazz pianists" but really, more than that: they are what I call 'spontaneous arrangers' -- a cut above all the others. We lost one of them, Andre Previn age 89 in January of 2019; here's the other one, as great as ever, you may agree!
SHOCKED... i just realized that Dave Grusin, writer of the legendary St. Elsewhere theme, also wrote this song! That moment when you realize that 2 of your all time favorite pieces, that you had never associated with each other, come from the same composer. Thanks for the wonderful upload. Dave knocked this performance out of the park.
Will Ritter, If you can find one, try to get a copy of his Sheffield label album from, I think, 1973. It was re-released in the 90s on CD. One of the best albums in the history of music. I've been listening to it for nearly 50 years. Love it to this day!
Amazing ..!! . Dave's chords in this song are so wonderful... I can't catch it so perfectly, eventhough hearing this performance again, again n again.. 👍👍👍😯😍
I don’t know if this is the correct place (but if not here, then I wonder where?) to reflect in appreciation of Dave Grusin for his spectacularly unique creativity and magnificent musicianship. It has given me unending joy over so many years - I think going all the way back to when, as a boy growing up in Australia, I first heard the theme music to “It Takes A Thief” in the 60s. I believe I fell in love at that very moment; and I know for certain that I have remained faithful ever since; with my wonder, amazement and delight only increasing over the years with each new miracle of yours. Thank you, Dave Grusin
