The making of a musical master
Karl Grossman and Camino Rio play Saint Rocke Saturday night. Photo by Andrew Neuhart The rumba began for Karl Grossman when he stepped outside the Greek Theater one night in 1993 to find that his car had been keyed. It was a dance that would lead him to the feet of a dying old flamenco master and a new lease on his musical life. Grossman had already led a considerable life in music. He grew up as something of a musical prodigy in the South Bay of the 1960s. He first followed in the footsteps of his jazz musician father and played trumpet, beginning in the 4th grade. As a teenager he became an accomplished guitarist. By the time he graduated from Mira Costa – where he was a classmate of jazz recording artist David Benoit – he had picked up the bass and joined a rock n’ roll band, the Bros of Manahatta. The band toured heavy and hard, even through the dark winter months of Alaska, and Grossman acquired the training that only the road can give a young musician. But when it was all said and done, he returned to the guitar, to jazz, and to the South Bay, where 25 years ago he founded his own studio on Valley Drive. Music Focus studio would become one of the formative musical havens in…
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