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Friday, August 28, 2020

Various Artists- GRP Live In Session (1985)

The GRP record label was founded in the late 1970s by keyboardist Dave Grusin and musician and producer Larry Rosen which was primarily focused on jazz fusion and smooth jazz.
The first album released by GRP was "Mountain Dance" by Dave Grusin, and from 1982 on they would begin to publish all their releases on digital CD, being the first worldwide label to do so.
Among many other artists who would record for this label were Dave Valentine, Sadao Watanabe, Tom Scott, David Benoit, Russ Freeman, Billy Cobham, Lee Ritenour, Kevin Eubanks, Chick Corea, Dianne Schuur, John Patitucci or Dave Samuels.
In 1985 the album "Live in Session" was published, a live album that culminated the long tour that some of the label's stars had made in Europe and the United States.
"Live in Session" is an extraordinary document of great interaction of all these artists together on stage, a perfect spontaneity combined with a sensational rapport between all of them.
From Dave Grusin's initial "Mountain Dance" to the final ecstasy with the hit "St Elswhere" to Dave Valentin's "Oasis", Ritenour's guitar tour de force with "The Rit Variations" and "Rio Funk" or Diane Schuur's sensitivity to the mesmerizing "Reverend Lee".

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