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    Jerry Granelli

    Oct 04, 2020 5 minutes
    BY DAN BILAWSKY

    Those unaware of the bigger picture may look at The Jerry Granelli Trio Plays Vince Guaraldi & Mose Allison, released on the RareNoise imprint this past June, as a pure nostalgia trip. The truth, however, is something more complex. While Granelli, who’ll turn 80 on December 30, has plenty of incredible memories from the time he spent playing drums alongside those titular figures, his eyes remain fixed on the road ahead. Even this particular album, which admittedly succumbs to a degree of sentiment in its embrace of personal history, skirts most foreseeable outcomes. In that respect it mirrors the artistic course that Granelli has traversed over the past three-quarters of a century.

    In hindsight, given Granelli’s DNA and San Franciscan surroundings, one of the only inevitabilities in his life seems to have been his path to percussion. “The drums

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