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Ehud Asherie

Born December 20th 1979, he is a mainstay of the New York City jazz scene. He has been studying piano since the age of 7. In 1997 and 1998 he attended the jazz program at the New School University, studying privately with jazz piano player Frank Hewitt. He currently studies with classical piano teacher Jeff Goldstein. For two years he has been playing regularly at the renowned jazz club Smalls with his own trio, the Grant Stewart Quartet and the Neil Miner Quintet. He has also served as a rehearsal pianist for the Village Vanguard Orchestra. Still, at this early stage in his career, he has already performed with such notables as Peter Bernstrin, Joe Cohn, Billy Drummond, Bobby Durham, Frank Gant, Paul Gill, Jimmy Green, Dennis Irwin, Jimmy Lovelace, Joe Magnarelli, Bob Mover, Tim Pleasant, Ben Street and Mark Taylor. Since January 2000 he's part of Trio65 at the Rainbow Grill in New York City along with bass player Joseph Lepore and drummer Tommaso Cappellato. The versatility and musical knowledge of Ehud Asherie are unusual for such a young pianist. His playing is inspired by pianists such as Erroll Garner, Thelonius Monk as well as by classical music. Ehud enriches his full melodic lines and complex rhythmic riffs with elements from his immense trove of musical quotes.


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Album Review

Ehud Asherie Trio: Wild Man Blues

Read "Wild Man Blues" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Ehud Asherie must have an old soul. The pianist's 2016 release, Shuffle Along (Blue Heron Records), explored the music from the 1921 Eubie Blake/Noble Sissle Broadway musical, Wild Man Blues. The disc at hand opens with the title tune, penned by Louis Armstrong and recorded with his Hot Seven in 1927. A relaxed and gorgeous take on “Oh, Lady Be Good" comes to us from the Gershwin brothers, from the 1924 musical of the same name. Asherie is ...

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Ehud Asherie: Shuffle Along

Read "Shuffle Along" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo


Il progetto intrapreso da Ehud Asherie per questo album è ambizioso; re-interpretare il songbook di “Shuffle Along," primo musical di Broadway di matrice afroamericana. Le musiche composte nel 1921 da Eubie Blake brillano di una nuova luce, in tutte le declinazioni filologiche (ragtime, stride) e moderne. Colpisce il sobrio souplesse del pianista israeliano nel rinverdire con garbo e virtuosismo mai ostentato tutta la cascata scintillante di note, insite nelle composite tessiture originarie. Questo CD ne mette in risalto il solismo ...

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Ehud Asherie: Shuffle Along

Read "Shuffle Along" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Israeli-born pianist Ehud Asherie delves deep into a quintessentially American Music on Shuffle Along. The score for the 1921 Broadway musical--tunes that were crafted before the beginning of a true “Popular" recording industry--was groundbreaking. Written by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle, Shuffle Along, with an all-black cast, was the first Broadway production that treated African Americans a serious characters, as something other than caricatures. Asherie draws on his knowledge of ragtime, stride, bebop and modern jazz to to ...

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Ehud Asherie with Harry Allen: Lower East Side

Read "Lower East Side" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


In this day and age, when shock-and-awe maneuvers and new-thing sounds tend to get all the plaudits and press in jazz, it says a lot when a throwback duo date is widely admired by critics and fans alike. Such was the case with pianist Ehud Asherie's Upper West Side (Posi-Tone, 2012), which brought him into contact with like-minded saxophonist Harry Allen and presented a program of old chestnuts that were revived by their expert hands. Now, a year after that ...

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Ehud Asherie and Harry Allen: Lower East Side

Read "Lower East Side" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Pianist Ehud Asherie and tenor saxophonist Harry Allen are established musical partners with a shared fondness for a time when songwriting giants like Irving Berlin and Richard Rodgers were at their creative zeniths. Lower East Side is the pair's second duo outing, following on from Upper West Side (Posi-Tone, 2012), and once again the two demonstrate how this fondness for a bygone era can still produce fresh and joyous music.The journey from Upper West Side to Lower East ...

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Ehud Asherie with Harry Allen: Upper West Side

Read "Upper West Side" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Upper West Side is as fine a duet album as has been made by a pianist with another instrumentalist. This declaration may very possibly include the albums made by Hank Jones with Tommy Flanagan and Oscar Peterson with Dizzy Gillespie. It is a credit to pianist Ehud Asherie that he made this album at such a young age in comparison to the masters who have been mentioned in the same breath, perhaps with seeming blasphemy. However, considering Asherie's instrumental mastery, ...

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Ehud Asherie with Harry Allen: Upper West Side

Read "Upper West Side" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Wherever tenor saxophonist Harry Allen shows up, there is sure to be a major outbreak of Old School. Along with Scott Hamilton, Allen is a keeper of the flame encompassing saxophone practice from Frankie Trumbauer to Lester Young. Pianist Ehud Asherie is cut from the same bolt as Ralph Sutton and Dick Hyman. His previous Posi-Tone recordings, Look Out (2007), Modern Life (2010), and Organic (2010) all demonstrate that Asherie is well-schooled in stride and modern keyboard styles, as well ...

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A Posi-Tone Twofer: Tarbaby and Ehud Asherie (2010)

A Posi-Tone Twofer: Tarbaby and Ehud Asherie (2010)

Source: Something Else!

By Pico What a stellar year it's been for Posi-Tone Records. They've generated record after record of honest-to-goodness mainstream jazz done with taste, style, with exceptional sidemen and flawless production. After reviewing zero releases prior to 2010, we've now given our impressions on a dozen releases, eleven of them 2010 releases. However, Posi-Tone isn't done yet, and recently there came forth a couple more records from this jazz factory that I just can't ignore. These two CD's revisit some artists ...

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Harry Allen and Ehud Asherie at Chautauqua 2010

Harry Allen and Ehud Asherie at Chautauqua 2010

Source: Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman

This very inspired duo—Harry on tenor, Ehud on piano—took the stage early on at Jazz at Chautauqua and left a deep impression. Although their play looks casual, they reach memorable heights — whether they are handling the twists and turns of PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ like a pair of gliding skiers, or turning SOME OTHER SPRING into a rueful ode. Some duos are an exhibition of two very ego-driven selves who happen—sometimes under duress—to occupy the same space. Harry and ...

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Harry Allen Two-Fer! New York State of Mind and Ehud Asherie's Modern Life

Harry Allen Two-Fer! New York State of Mind and Ehud Asherie's Modern Life

Source: Something Else!

By Pico Not long ago we lauded the old school approach of saxophonist Eric Alexander, but even Alexander sounds rather leading edge compared to another tenorman just two years his senior, Harry Allen.The son of a big band drummer, Allen was exposed to jazz literally from the time he was born. After graduating from Rutgers with a music degree, he pursued a career as a tenor saxophonist. But unlike virtually every other saxophonist of his and ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Wild Man Blues

Capri Records
2019

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Shuffle Along

Blue Heron Records
2016

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Lower East Side

Posi-Tone Records
2013

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Upper West Side

Posi-Tone Records
2012

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Modern Life

Posi-Tone Records
2010

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Organic

Posi-Tone Records
2010

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Wild Man Blues

From: Wild Man Blues
By Ehud Asherie

Gypsy Blues

From: Shuffle Along
By Ehud Asherie

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