Acclaimed Halifax jazz drummer Jerry Granelli, who provided the smooth and subtle percussion for the beloved 1965 TV special “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” has died. His son, musician J. Anthony ...

Back in 1992, veteran drummer-composer Jerry Granelli went to studios in Seattle and San Francisco with an all-star cast, including trombonist Julian Priester, alto sax great Kenny Garrett, bassist ...

Jerry Granelli will hold a one-week residency at John Zorn's The Stone, January 3-8, 2017. "One reason why people like improvised music is that it's a direct reflection of life, not something we ...

Jerry Granelli — a Canadian jazz drummer and music teacher who performed and recorded with Vince Guaraldi, Charlie Haden, Sly Stone, Ornette Coleman, Pat Metheny, Mose Allison and more — has died.

Drummer Jerry Granelli, best known for recording with pianist Vince Guaraldi on the beloved album “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and remembered in Seattle as a musician who in the 1980s helped shape an ...

One Christmastime in the early 1990s, jazz drummer Jerry Granelli took a whirlwind trip to Los Angeles from Berlin, where he lived part-time as a music teacher. From there, he flew to his hometown of ...

We independently select everything we recommend. Buying through us may earn us a commission, which supports our work. Jazz drummer Jerry Granelli, widely known for his work on A Charlie Brown ...

This is what master drummer Jerry Granelli hears now: a wide variety of left-of-center music that circumvents strict harmonic corralling, thanks to the absence of guitar or piano, and makes good use ...

J. Anthony Granelli says he feels grateful to be able to share in his father's greatest passion — making music. Jerry Granelli, a Nova Scotia jazz legend and music teacher best known for playing drums ...

To his adult children, Jerry Granelli is just dad, and at 80 needs help recovering at home after months in a Halifax hospital. To the rest of the world, famed drummer/composer Jerry Granelli is a jazz ...

Jerry Granelli was a member of the Vince Guaraldi Trio that recorded the iconic 1965 album, A Charlie Brown Christmas. It wasn't until 2013 that the legendary jazz drummer was ready to play music from ...