“Cedar Hill” is a composition by the mandolinist David Grisman, the opening track of his album “Mondo Mando,” released in 1981. By that time Grisman had developed his own genre-blending instrumental style — an acoustic music drawing on bluegrass, swing, and jazz that came to be known as “Dawg music.”
The tune is an all-instrumental piece in that Dawg idiom, built for an ensemble of acoustic strings. “Mondo Mando” gathered an array of leading acoustic players, and “Cedar Hill” opens the record with the bright, intricate interplay that defines Grisman’s writing.
This recording features Grisman himself on mandolin, leading the ensemble he assembled for “Mondo Mando.”
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