Grant Gordy - Peripheral Visions CD

For many guitarists, landing a gig with bluegrass mandolinist David Grisman’s groundbreaking bluegrass/jazz quintet would be the culmination of a career in music. But for Grant Gordy, it was more of a beginning, an apprenticeship in combining bluegrass and jazz that served as a launchpad for his own music. How far he has traveled since then can be heard on Peripheral Visions, his stunning new quartet recording and welcome successor to his eponymous 2010 debut.

Peripheral Visions resembles Grant Gordy in that it also features Dominick Leslie (Hawktail, the Molly Tuttle Band) on mandolin and Alex Hargreaves (Sarah Jarosz, Billy Strings), on violin, along with bassist Aidan O’Donnell, who plays with Grant in Mr Sun. And while Grant’s music is so expansive that it would be impossible to predict the sound of the new album based on the old one, there are certain characteristics of his music that are becoming clearer. For example, there’s an interplay among the instruments that sounded preternatural a dozen years ago, but now seems like the result of years of playing in the contemporary string band scene alongside people like Darol Anger, Danny Barnes, Edgar Meyer, Tony Trischka, and Joe K. Walsh, as well as his virtuosic, empathic... more
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released March 3, 2023

All compositions by Grant Gordy (guitar)

with
Alex Hargreaves (violin)
Dominick Leslie (mandolin)
Aidan O'Donnell (bass)