Pasquale Grasso - Solo Be-Bop! (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Jazz guitar virtuoso Pasquale Grasso and his trio celebrate the release of Be-Bop! at Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Monday, August 22. Performances are at 7:30 and 9:30PM. Joining Grasso are bassist Ari Roland and drummer Keith Balla.
Following the extraordinary success of Grasso’s digital showcase series, which launched in 2019 and includes Solo Standards, Solo Ballads, Solo Holiday, and tributes to jazz royalty Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, the shows will feature the Pasquale Grasso Trio playing tracks from the Sony Music Masterworks release Be-Bop!, a brilliant new tribute to be-bop pioneers Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker – available now.
Be-Bop! kicks off in exhilarating fashion with Dizzy’s quintessential composition, “A Night in Tunisia,” originally composed in 1942 when he was a member of Benny Carter’s band and which marked the beginning of Gillespie’s unique blending of Afro-Cuban rhythms with American jazz. Grasso achieves an astonishing balance of technical wizardry and swing, sounding like two guitarists coming out of the gate on the challenging head on top of the syncopated Latin rhythm. And his fleet-fingered solo break at the 1:03 mark is in the breathtaking tradition of Charlie Parker’s famous alto sax break from his 1946 Dial recording of the tune. Pasquale’s stream of single notes that follows for the next two minutes in his solo is even more astounding, brimming with rare facility and abandon to match his fertile imagination. Roland also turns in an animated bowed bass solo here while Balla engages in some slick trades with the leader near the end of the piece.

TRACKLIST

1. Pasquale Grasso - Chasin' the Bird
2. Pasquale Grasso - Salt Peanuts
3. Pasquale Grasso - Sid's Delight
4. Pasquale Grasso - Time Waits
5. Pasquale Grasso - Manhattan
6. Pasquale Grasso - Monopoly
7. Pasquale Grasso - Stars Over Marakesh
8. Pasquale Grasso - Stella by Starlight
9. Pasquale Grasso - Happy Hour
10. Pasquale Grasso - Sure Thing
11. Pasquale Grasso - Pannonica
12. Pasquale Grasso - Yeheadeadeadee



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