Pasquale Grasso "Solo Masterpieces" Record Release at Cafe Bohemia

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“The best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire life is floating around now, Pasquale Grasso,” - Pat Metheny, Vintage Guitar Magazine

Born in Italy and now based in New York City, the 30-year- old guitarist has developed an astounding technique and concept informed not by jazz guitarists so much as by bebop pioneers like Powell, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and the classical-guitar tradition. His new digital-only EP series, available beginning in June from Sony Masterworks, showcases Grasso in the solo-guitar format, where his intensive studies of both mid-century jazz and classical meld into a signature mastery that is, remarkably, at once unprecedented and evocative.