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Dick Grove
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Richard Dean Grove was an American musician, composer, arranger, and educator. He is best known as the founder of the Dick Grove School of Music. Its students include Michael Jackson, Linda Ronstadt, and Barry Manilow, and its teachers Henry Mancini, Bill Conti, and Lalo Schifrin. Grove was born in Lakeville, Indiana. At the University of Denver he studied music and then taught piano locally. In 1957 he moved to Los Angeles and taught at the Westlake School of Music. Westlake concentrated on the Schillinger System, which served as a basis for the first curricula at Berklee School of Music (which was called the Schillinger House of Music)
The Dave Robbins Big Band: Happy Faces
by Jack Bowers
Even though its renowned leader and trombonist passed away in 2005, and the Dave Robbins Big Band's Happy Faces was recorded some forty years before that, the music on this remarkable album remains as fresh and provocative as today's front-page news. The Indiana-born Robbins, a legend among big-band artists and enthusiasts in Vancouver, British Columbia, and ...
Dick Grove: Big, Bad & Beautiful
Dick Grove wore two hats. There was Grove the educator, who moved to Los Angeles in 1957 and taught at the Westlake School of Music. In 1973, he started the Dick Grove School of Music, enlisting Henry Mancini, Bill Conti and Lalo Schifrin as teachers. How did he manage to pull that off? That brings us ...
Play-A-Long Recording Volume IV Applied Modal Improvisation
By Dick Grove
Label: Reference Recordings
Released: 1976
