Date:
Monday, March 30
Time:
7:00 PM
Advance Ticket:
$40.79
Advance Member Ticket:
$36.75
Door Ticket:
$42.00
Student Ticket:
$21.00
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Kuumbwa Jazz Presents

Pasquale Grasso Trio

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6:00 PM
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It was the kind of endorsement most rising guitarists can only dream of, and then some. In his interview for Vintage Guitar magazine’s February 2016 cover story, Pat Metheny was asked to name some younger musicians who’d impressed him. “The best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire life is floating around now, Pasquale Grasso,” said the jazz-guitar icon and NEA Jazz Master. “This guy is doing something so amazingly musical and so difficult.”

Many serious guitar heads have been hip to Grasso for a while now and are aware of his jaw-dropping online performance videos, his beautiful custom instrument — built in France by Trenier Guitars — and his early career triumphs. In 2015, he won the Wes Montgomery International Jazz Guitar Competition in New York City and performed with guitar legend Pat Martino’s organ trio. And as part of the NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert, Grasso participated in a special performance to honor Metheny, alongside his guitar-wunderkind peers Dan Wilson, Camila Meza, Gilad Hekselman, and Nir Felder.

These days, Grasso teaches and maintains a packed gig schedule around New York, including frequent solo performances at the popular Greenwich Village haunt Mezzrow, where a regular Monday-night gig allowed him to develop his solo-arranging skillset. Not that Grasso thinks his work is done. “All [of the musicians I love are] inspiration for me to get new ideas and form my style, because it’s still growing,” he says. “And it’s gonna be growing until the day I die.”

Pasquale Grasso Website
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