Jazz Articles about Jerry Ascione

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Ian Wardenski's Quintet returns with a follow-up to Collective Thoughts (IW, 2019). The innovative bandleader and guitarist continues to create a sound that combines the aesthetics of a chamber group with the freedom, spontaneity and improvisation of a small jazz combo. Trust features Mercedes Beckman on alto saxophone, Jerry Ascione, piano, Amy Shook, bass, Frank Russo, drums, and Tamara Tucker, voice. Wardenski furthers his collective sound by combining Tucker's agile wordless vocals with his guitar for a distinctive ...

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Album Review

The Jerry Ascione Big Band: Beautiful Love

Read "Beautiful Love" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
August 1, 2000

Big Band music is alive and well as evidenced on Beautiful love , the debut CD of pianist/composer/arranger Jerry Ascione. Building from the tradition of the big band era defined by Count Basie, Stan Kenton, and Woody Herman, Ascione brings a purely modern aesthetic to the big band genre in his use of carefully conceived voicings and arrangements, as well as utilizing the talents of accomplished veterans like Marvin Stamm and Steve Williams; the former given ample soloing space throughout ...