Isnt she lovely - NZSM Guitar Ensemble directed by Nick Granville

First in a series of three videos showing the New Zealand School of Music Jazz Guitar ensemble, directed by Nick Granville. The tune was written by the great Stevie Wonder, as a dedication to his daughter. If you enjoy please share this video. Also, please remember these guys are students so be kind. Many thanks to Richard Caigou for giving up his Saturday to do this and to the great musicians involved.
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Guitarist, session musician, educator and composer Nick Granville has worked with artists as diverse as Chris De Burgh, Ronan Keating, Delta Goodrem, Steve Smith, Mike Stern, Joey Defrancesco, Eric Marienthal, Kurt Elling and with the band on New Zealand's "Dancing with the Stars". Nick leads his own groups that play regularly including at the major jazz festivals in NZ and he is a founding member of the Wellington Jazz Orchestra. He has released five CD's as a band leader and has played on many records, film scores, TV programs and radio. He has taught and taken workshops at the New Zealand School of Music, Goodtime Music Academy, Musicworks stores, Christchurch Jazz school (CPIT), Otago University, Auckland University and at jazz festivals all around NZ. Nick has performed around the world and recorded in the best recording studios (including Capitol recording studio A in Los Angeles). He hold a masters degree with first class honours in jazz performance from the University of Auckland.

[@heatheramos9361]

Great you young students,,,have shared this around our Northern Jazz Society and various places...well done!!

[@NickGranville]

Thanks Heather! Appreciate the sharing of this. Cheers

[@barockman1798]

Great Great playing!

[@NickGranville]

Thanks

[@stevedouglas7375]

What a wonderful idea to put these students together for a video performance. This helps them stretch and grow as players, not to mention it's recorded for posterity sake. One day they'll look back on this fondly. Thank you Nick for thinking of doing this and for sharing it with us. Very, very nice!

[@NickGranville]

Steve Douglas thanks! You nailed it, that was exactly my intention. Cheers NG

[@stevedouglas7375]

Thanks Nick. Cheers Steve.

[@arey4054]

So cool!!!! I’m in music school and we have a guitar orchestra where we play pieces with 30 acoustic guitars but I hope that someday we do something like this!

[@NickGranville]

Thanks so much for your comment! All the best for your studies

[@rabendranath]

Lovely rendition and direction, good job man!!

[@NickGranville]

rabendranath thanks

[@Selvikus]

Nice one man! Glad to see that music knows no borders. Anyways if you can get these young talents to do another one of these, do you reckon you can do an Invaders song? All things aside great work, looking to hear more of these.

[@NickGranville]

Thanks! I'm no longer teaching at this Uni so it'll be up to the current band director to do any future videos. I've thought about doing some multi-track stuff (eg 5x of me!). So might get round to that one day. Cheers

[@Napierlad1]

Nice one Nick.

[@NickGranville]

Napierlad1 thanks!

[@iasoccerdad]

Very nice! 😎🎸🎹🥁🎶

[@NickGranville]

Rick Berry thanks!

[@leomcmenamin2847]

Awesome!

[@NickGranville]

Leo McMenamin thanks!

[@TheAlbiCollier]

Wow awesome what year are these maestros?

[@NickGranville]

A mix but Mostly 1st years. I don’t teach there anymore but enjoyed working with this lot

[@joesimmonds2849]

Nicely done!

[@NickGranville]

Joe Simmonds thanks man! 👍😊

[@joel-hp6pn]

They love sunburst finishes lol, great playing tho

[@NickGranville]

ha, thanks!

[@airplanekiwi6019]

sounds great

[@NickGranville]

Nihal Patel thanks man!

[@sailakshmisuryaramanan1896]

Wonderful ☺️

[@NickGranville]

Sai Lakshmi Surya Ramanan thanks so much! 😊👍

[@abruenin236]

More please

[@NickGranville]

Thanks. I've uploaded three videos from this group. Check my channel for the other 2. Cheers

[@abruenin236]

@@NickGranville Great, I have subscribed to your channel, really like the music.

[@NickGranville]

Arne Brüning thanks!

[@williamwilson3774]

Gabe 😍😍😍

[@Jro713_]

Sheet music by any chance?

[@NickGranville]

I’ve considered publishing it but due to copyright being so strict on this stuff I’m not sure it’s worth doing

[@Jro713_]

@@NickGranville So that means you can't directly send it to me only, correct?

[@NickGranville]

@@Jro713_ maybe I can. I’m not sure if that still constitutes copyright infringement / publishing issues as Technically you haven’t paid for it. I guess it constitutes educational use (I assume that’s what you want it for? Message me via my website

[@Jro713_]

@@NickGranville Yeah I'm in highschool and I want to learn a new piece this year that stands out so I'm going to reach out.

[@NickGranville]

@@Jro713_ cool. Thanks. I’ll have a look and see what I have of the music for this (it was a long time ago so can’t remember what we used).

[@humanitygold2024]

I thought the first soloist was dovydas

[@NickGranville]

HuManity GOLD dunno who that is?

[@craigs19721972]

Kiwi Blues scale ..so safe and boring . Guitar so in tune..not.

[@NickGranville]

Craig Sinclair do you care to show how it’s done then? Also, what were you hoping to achieve by making this comment? Did it make you feel better to put down others? Maybe, just maybe, consider keeping your thoughts to yourself next time...

[@b_d_vn9651]

@@NickGranville somebody is jealous because they can never do what you do.😁

[@NickGranville]

B_d_v N thanks! These students kick his butt too. That’s gotta hurt