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Produced by Jan Nathanson & Directed by Colin MacKenzie Jerry Granelli- In The Moment is a documentary about the musical, spiritual and physical journey of 1960s top San Francisco session drummer Jerry Granelli. Jerry, a Halifax based jazz drummer, grew up in 40s and 50 San Francisco and came of age in the 60s as one of the cities top drummers. Jerry Granelli has traveled from the Italian neighborhoods in 19 40s San Francisco, to the founding of a Buddhist University in Boulder Colorado, then a cutting edge music professor in Seattle Washington, and finally following his Buddhist teacher to Halifax, Nova Scotia. All the while Granelli has been pushing to its limit the definition of music and musicianship. Deep Beats is a documentary about what it is to be a student and what it is to be a teacher and what it is to be a musician. A musical quest that at the age of sixty, Jerry refuses to give up.
