Way Out West Concert Series - Nick Grinder Group at Rendon Hall

CJC's Way Out West Concert Series provides composer-performers from the Bay Area and beyond with a Tuesday evening showcase for forward-looking original work in jazz and related genres. Join us weekly in Rendon Hall for Way Out West! Farallon Album Release: A sampling of the original pieces from the newly released record ""Farallon,"" as well more other original music by Nick Grinder. Nick Grinder is a trombonist and composer currently living in New York City. He was born and raised in San Francisco and Novato, CA, where he attended the Marin School of the Arts and participated in SFJAZZ and Jazz School programs as a high school student...

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CJC's Way Out West Concert Series provides composer-performers from the Bay Area and beyond with a Tuesday evening showcase for forward-looking original work in jazz and related genres. Join us weekly in Rendon Hall for Way Out West! Farallon Album Release: A sampling of the original pieces from the newly released record ""Farallon,"" as well more other original music by Nick Grinder. Nick Grinder is a trombonist and composer currently living in New York City. He was born and raised in San Francisco and Novato, CA, where he attended the Marin School of the Arts and participated in SFJAZZ and Jazz School programs as a high school student. Nick currently works as a sideman and leader in a number of diverse projects in New York City, and has appeared at venues such as Small's, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, The Jazz Gallery, The Jazz Standard, Rose Hall, North Sea Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Jazz at Doha, and many other venues. He has performed in the big bands of Alan Ferber, Darcy James Argue, Arturo O'Farrill, John Daversa, Bobby Sanabria, and the Mambo Legends Orchestra, as well as with Wycliffe Gordon, Jimmy Owens, Ralph Alessi, Donny McCaslin, Marcus Printup and many others. He is also very active in both the commercial world, where he has subbed in the pit orchestras of over a dozen Broadway shows, and has performed and/or recorded with artists such as Lorde, Lin-Manuel Miranda, DMX, St Vincent, Patti LaBelle, Deltron 3030, and many others. Nick released Ten Minutes, his first album of original compositions in 2014, and Farallon, his second, will be released February 2019 on Outside-In music.

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