Pasquale Grasso - Be-Bop! (2022)
Pasquale Grasso - Be-Bop! (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 43:21 | 230 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Masterworks
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 43:21 | 230 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Masterworks
Following the extraordinary success of guitar virtuoso Pasquale 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, Bud Powell, Sony Music Masterworks is set to release Be-Bop!, a brilliant new tribute to be-bop pioneers Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. This will be the Italian-born Grasso’s sixth album for Masterworks, and will be released on June 17 – preorder here.
Be-Bop! kicks off in exhilarating fashion with today’s release of 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. Finally, catch Grasso’s brief dazzling quote from one of Paganini’s Caprices (the extremely difficult No. 24 in A minor) in the coda. Listen here.
Track List:
1. A Night in Tunisia (5:58)
2. Be-Bop (4:57)
3. Ruby, My Dear (4:26)
4. Shaw 'Nuff (4:02)
5. I'm in a Mess (feat. Samara Joy) (2:54)
6. Cheryl (5:18)
7. Ornithology (3:47)
8. Quasimodo (4:22)
9. Lamento Della Campagnia (3:04)
10. Groovin' High (4:37)
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