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Paul Asaro

Expertly blending the elements of such great jazz piano traditions as the Harlem Stride of James. P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Dick Wellstood, and Ralph Sutton, the ragtime of Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake, and the New Orleans styles of Jelly Roll Morton, into his own two-handed creation and adding a unique and highly recognizeable vocal style, Paul Asaro has performed across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He studied music at Illinois Wesleyan University before graduating from Columbia College in Chicago with post-graduate work at Roosevelt University. Paul has since performed extensively as a piano soloist in Jazz and Ragtime festivals, clubs, and theaters in New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Toronto and Montreal, Canada, Milwaukee, Superior and La Cross, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento, California, and Branson, Missouri as well as Switzerland and Hungary. Also well known to bandleaders as a strong and experienced ensemble pianist and accompanist, he has played with Jim Beebe's Chicago Jazz, Connie Jones' Classic Jazz All-Stars in New Orleans, drum great Barrett Deems' Big Band, Stan Kenton alum William Russo's Chicago Jazz Ensemble, and Doug Finke's Independence Hall Jazz Band. Asaro has performed with such jazz luminaries and legends as Marian McPartland, Steve Allen, Leon Redbone, Jon Faddis, Jeff Healy, Jim Galloway, Dan Barrett, Jon-Erik Kellso, Duke Heitger, Brian Ogilvie, and Orange Kellin

The Fat Babies: 18th & Racine

by Hrayr Attarian
February 23, 2014

Early jazz stylists The Fat Babies' second album 18th & Racine is bolder than their first in their choice of material and their delivery of the songs included. Encouraged by the successful execution of their debut Chicago Hot (Delmark 2012) the band presents 14 lesser-known gems and an original composition by their cornetist Andy Schumm. The ...

The Fat Babies: Chicago Hot

by Jerry D'Souza
March 4, 2013

What goes around comes around and time stands still in the future. The Fat Babies shows that, playing tunes from the '20s and '30s with exemplary flair. In this group, nostalgia turns out to be downright delicious.The septet is mellifluous as it unveils the heat and fervor of ragtime in a confluence that packs ...