Jazz Articles about Alan Pasqua

Peter Erskine / Bob Mintzer / Darek Oles / Alan Pasqua: Standards 2, Movie Music

by Dan McClenaghan
January 31, 2011

Composers of movie soundtracks have crafted some of the most enduring tunes for jazz treatment. Names like Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, Krzysztof Komeda, and Ennio Maricone show up in the credits of innumerable albums, with tunes that shape moods and atmospheres, and supply jazz artists with engaging melodies galore.Drummer Peter Erskine has collected a crack quartet which has, in turn, collected ten tunes from various movie soundtracks for a near perfect jazz outing, one with that swings with ...

Peter Erskine / Bob Mintzer / Darek Oles / Alan Pasqua: Standards 2, Movie Music

by John Kelman
October 31, 2010

Sometimes, the most powerful statements are those delivered directly: gentle, yet forceful in their complete commitment, and without the trappings of excess.With the sudden, unexpected passing in 2008 of Dave Carpenter--the talented and busy West Coast bassist who had played with everyone from Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson and Woody Herman to Scott Henderson, Allan Holdsworth and Lee Ritenour--drummer Peter Erskine and pianist Alan Pasqua had to find a new bassist for their longstanding trio, last heard on Standards ...

Alan Pasqua / Dave Carpenter / Peter Erskine: Standards

by Michael P. Gladstone
May 4, 2008

This jazz trio recording consists of pianist Alan Pasqua, bassist Dave Carpenter and drummer Peter Erskine. An ongoing cooperative trio with two other releases to its credit--2000's Live at Rocco and 2002's Badlands, both released on Erkine's Fuzzy Music label, this largely intimate session was recorded with only two KMF stand-up tube microphones.

The task of selecting standards relies upon a choice largely from the Great American Songbook, with the addition of two jazz tunes--Dizzy Gillespie's “Con Alma" ...

Alan Pasqua: Lifetime's Aglow, A (non) Antisocial Interaction

by Phil DiPietro
February 18, 2008

Any discussion of Alan Pasqua must start with at the scintillating beginning of his official discography. His first recorded performance featured the then 23-year-old wunderkind of Fender Rhodes on The New Tony Williams Lifetime's Believe It (Columbia, 1975). His first sounds committed to wax were texturized Rhodes thickening “Snake Oil," then shadowing its serpentine melody as stated by Allan Holdsworth, a guitarist seemingly stolen from the future by the unit's provocative leader, the now-legendary Williams. At that time, the drummer ...

Alan Pasqua: The Antisocial Club

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 28, 2008

Negli ultimi quarant’anni i nipotini del Miles Davis elettrico, l’istrionico manipolatore di suoni e di grooves tanto osteggiato all’epoca quanto rivalutato col trascorrere del tempo, si sono succeduti con velocità impressionante e con altrettanta velocità hanno vissuto la gloria di una notte. The Antisocial Club di Alan Pasqua sembra avere tutte le carte in regola per staccarsi decisamente dalla media e risultare in assoluto una delle cose migliori nel genere citato. La storia musicale di Pasqua e il suo eclettismo ...

Alan Pasqua: The Antisocial Club

by John Kelman
November 15, 2007

Alan Pasqua first emerged as keyboardist for legendary drummer Tony Williams' mid-1970s New Lifetime and has been a busy session player ever since, with a solo career focused largely on acoustic music, including the elegant My New Old Friend (Cryptogramophone, 2005). Still, the outstanding DVD, Allan Holdsworth and Alan Pasqua featuring Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Haslip (Altitude Digital, 2007), proved Pasqua still has the energy and chops for pedal-to-the-metal fusion. The Antisocial Club continues his revived interest in fusion with ...

Alan Pasqua: The Antisocial Club

by Troy Collins
October 29, 2007

Keyboardist Alan Pasqua has studied with pianists Jaki Byard and George Russell, and toured with artists as diverse as Stan Kenton to Tony Williams. Studio sessions with Eddie Money, Bob Dylan, Carlos Santana, Rick Springfield, Pat Benetar, Sammy Hagar and Whitesnake have also helped pay the bills. A versatile musician, Pasqua brings a highly melodic sensibility to the proceedings no matter the style or genre.

Pasqua's 1970s stint in Tony Williams' New Lifetime, alongside guitarist Allan Holdsworth, helped ...