The genre name was coined by his father, the groundbreaking mandolinist David Grisman, in the 1970s. It was under the latter’s tutelage that the musicianship of bluegrass-rooted contemporaries and ...

For more than 40 years, mandolinist and composer David Grisman has been busy creating “dawg” music, a blend of swing, bluegrass, Latin, jazz and gypsy. In doing so he inspired a new genre of acoustic ...

It may not be common knowledge, but for some years a titan of American bluegrass has resided in Seattle’s backyard. David “Dawg” Grisman, a mandolinist and composer whose improvisatory licks have made ...