POLYRHYTHMS Third Sunday Jazz Series presents THE STEVE GRISMORE TRIO

On November 17, 2024, POLYRHYTHMS Third Sunday Jazz Series welcomes back the

stylistic grooves of the Steve Grismore Trio. The trio features Steve Grismore – guitar, Drew

Morton – bass, and Justin LeDuc – drums.

Steve Grismore is a prolific performer who has been playing guitar for over 55 years and is one of the most in demand players in eastern Iowa and beyond. He is a versatile guitarist and plays traditional jazz, as well as improvised music with a more avant-garde sensibility. Steve grew up in Iowa and cut his teeth on pop music styles of the 60’s but soon gravitated to jazz sounds of the 70’s through his experiences in high school jazz and rock bands.

Grismore studied jazz performance at the University of Miami his freshman year of college and from there transferred to Arizona State in the mid 70’s. In 1978 Steve moved to Los Angeles and enrolled in the newly formed school, the Guitar Institute of Technology. Upon graduation, Steve returned to Iowa where he joined the R & B band the Rhythm Rockers and started teaching at Coe College in Cedar Rapids. A couple of years later, he returned to school and received his B.M. in Composition and an M.A. in Music Theory from the University of Iowa. Soon after, he became Director of Jazz Studies at The University of Iowa from 1990-93. Steve returned to the University of Iowa in the fall of 2000 as an adjunct professor and retired as a full-time Lecturer in 2021.

Grismore performs with his own trio, the Beaker Brothers, 3 Dawgs and a Bone, and Big Fun. He is also the co-founder and former Musical Director of the nationally recognized Iowa City Jazz Festival.

Steve Grismore will offer a workshop at 3:00 pm, and the musicians will perform in concert

from 5:00-7:00 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Quad Cities (UUCQC)

located at 3707 Eastern Avenue, Davenport, Iowa.

The workshop is free of charge for children and adults. General admission for the concert is $15 (no reserved seating) with free admission for children, K-12 students, and College students (ID required).

Front doors open at 3:00 pm for the workshop followed by a social hour at 4:00 pm.

Performance doors open at 4:30 pm.

Experience an evening of jazz “Live” like it was meant to be enjoyed. Delight in some of the

best jazz and captivating music in the Quad Cities at the Third Sunday Jazz Series on Sunday, November 17, featuring the Steve Grismore Trio.

Polyrhythms Third Sunday Jazz Series is made possible with major support of the SCRA, the RDA, the Singh Family Foundation, as well as Visionary Arts Photography & Media Center, Bowman Accounting, Peeples Heating & Air Conditioning, Cribbs Landscaping, Davis Entertainment Network, radio station KALA, and DJ Mixxin Mel.