Over the span of his career, he collaborated with musicians including Lee Morgan, Clarence Sharpe, Reggie Workman, and Alex Cline.
[3][4] Born in New York City on November 14, 1937, Grossman grew up in Mississippi and Georgia during his early life.
[1] He began his professional career as a jazz pianist while a high school student in Philadelphia in the mid 1950s.
[4][1] During the latter half of the 1950s he was an active part of the post-bop jazz scene in that city, playing with musicians like trumpeter Lee Morgan; double bassists Jimmy Garrison, Henry Grimes, and Reggie Workman; and saxophonist Odean Pope to name a few.
[1] From 1989 until his death in Los Angeles on October 2, 1992 he taught improvised music and jazz on the faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture.