Take Pat Metheny, who described the Italian-born/NYC-based guitarist as “the best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire ...

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 ...

Bright lights, big city, great music — that’s New York for you. It’s one of the global epicenters for jazz and jazz musicians. Why else would guitarist Pasquale Grasso up and leave his home country of ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Acclaimed guitarist Pasquale Grasso will give a free performance and master class Friday at Youngstown State University. The Italian musician has been called “the best guitar player I’ve ...

Below you'll find the details on all jazz programming at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater running November 4th - November 17th. Downstairs at Birdland Theater catch A Portrait of June Cavlan, ...

An encounter with the album “Solo Bud Powell” will alert you to two things. First, Pasquale Grasso can play the guitar like ringing a bell. Second, Bud Powell, in addition to revolutionizing modern ...

The Italian-born guitarist Pasquale Grasso is set to perform alongside vocalist Samara Joy with his Quartet: Ben Patterson on piano, Ari Rolland on bass, and Keith Balla on drums, opening the 27th ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Birdland has announced details on all jazz programming at Birdland Jazz Club and ...

There’s something to be said when, in 2022, a guitarist born in 1988 in southern Italy releases a bass-and-drums trio recording titled “Be-Bop” (Sony Masterworks), housing 10 selections consisting ...

It is often said—rather nastily—that nobody can name five famous Belgians. Jazz fans can certainly name one: harmonicist Toots Thielemans. Thielemans, who in 2014 announced his retirement at the age ...

The Miller Center for the Arts will be magically transformed into New York’s famous Birdland Jazz Club when Boscov’s Berks Jazz Fest presents Frank Vignola’s Birdland Guitar Night on Friday at 6 p.m.

In the world of jazz and jazz-influenced popular music, guitar players have one major thing in common with male singers: The overwhelming majority of both seem to be either Italian American or African ...