Pasquale Grasso - Fervency (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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."

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.

“Mostly what I hear now are guitar players who sound a little bit like me mixed with a little bit of [John Scofield] and a little bit of [Bill Frisell],” he continued. “What’s interesting about Pasquale is that he doesn’t sound anything like that at all. In a way, it is a little bit of a throwback, because his model—which is an incredible model to have—is Bud Powell. He has somehow captured the essence of that language from piano onto guitar in a way that almost nobody has ever addressed. He’s the most significant new guy I’ve heard in many, many years.”

TRACKLIST

1. Pasquale Grasso - Sub City
2. Pasquale Grasso - A Trip with C.C.
3. Pasquale Grasso - Milestones
4. Pasquale Grasso - Cherokee
5. Pasquale Grasso - If You Could See Me Now
6. Pasquale Grasso - Focus
7. Pasquale Grasso - Bean and the Boys
8. Pasquale Grasso - Lady Bird
9. Pasquale Grasso - Bag's Groove
10. Pasquale Grasso - And So I Love You
11. Pasquale Grasso - Little Willie Leaps
12. Pasquale Grasso - Fervency
13. Pasquale Grasso - Jahbero



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