"JERRY GRANELLI: IN THE MOMENT"


Year: 2002
Running time: 52 min.
Language: English
Director: Colin MacKenzie

Synopsis: Produced by Jan Nathanson & Directed by Colin MacKenzie, Jerry Granelli: In The Moment is a documentary about the musical, spiritual and physical journey of 1960s top San Francisco session drummer Jerry Granelli. Jerry, a Halifax based jazz drummer, grew up in 40s and 50 San Francisco and came of age in the 60s as one of the cities top drummers.

Jerry Granelli has lived a mythic life. He drummed in some of the biggest jazz outfits of the 50s-60s, including Vince Guaraldi Trio and the Denny Zeitlin Trio. Like many of his peers, Granelli could have played it safe and made a comfortable career doing traditional jazz into his old age, but instead he dove into the new worlds of free and psychedelic music that were opening up around him during the hippie era in San Francisco.

In the early 60’s he led one of the first free jazz bands in America. They did a three month opening spot for Lenny Bruce and toured extensively through Europe with the Grateful Dead, playing completely wild and spontaneous sets night after night, often to the scorn of unsuspecting audiences. A few years later he joined Light Sound Dimension (LSD), an outfit that paired marathons of free, amplified jazz with projection painting, effectively launching the first ever psychedelic light and sound event at the San Francisco Art Museum in 1967. LSD was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Since those early years Jerry has played with an impressive list of innovators including Bruce Frisell, Ornette Coleman, Jamie Saft, and Anthony Braxton to name just a few. And at 70 he still travels the world playing and teaching new music.

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