Jerry Granelli V16

This double album captures two nights of live performances by jazz drummer Jerry Granelli and his dual guitar project V16 recorded at Halifax studio The Sonic Temple during the Atlantic Jazz Festival in 2006. The tunes are presented on this audiophile recording exactly as they were performed live, unedited and in the order played: seven band originals and a James Brown cover played as a lyrical slow blues. The same setlist played both nights allows listeners to compare, contrast and appreciate the improvisational nature of each performance.

Drummer on Vince Guaraldi's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" LP and the TV soundtracks, cited in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the inventors of psychedelic music, pioneer in world-jazz fusion and electro-acoustic percussion in the hippie era, founder/co-director of the music department at Boulder's Naropa Institute in the '70s, longtime associate of Mose Allison, Jane Ira Bloom, Glen Moore, Dave Friedman etc., and with a string of wide-ranging projects under his own name in the last 20 years, Jerry Granelli has been on the scene for so long - as percussionist, teacher and bandleader - that there may be a tendency to take him for granted.