Alan Pasqua

Here is a new interview I did with Ray Padgett discussing my time and musical history with Bob Dylan…

Alan Pasqua

Day Dream

(Gretabelle Music)

By Frank Alkyer, March 2021 / Downbeat

As I’ve said before in this column, I’m a sucker for solo piano recordings, and Alan Pasqua’s Day Dream hits home. Pasqua, a collaborator with a broad swath of pop and jazz royalty—from Tony Williams, Bob Dylan and John Fogerty to Allan Holdsworth, Carlos Santana and Michael Bublé—recorded this highly personal collection of his favorite tunes during COVID-19 lockdown. He released it on his own Gretabelle Music last November, but the set is just now getting out to the public. It’s the kind of DIY delay that the pandemic has wrought throughout the music world.

That said, this batch of chestnuts is worth the wait. Pasqua demonstrates amazing touch and technique on the 10 tunes recorded for this document. His medley of “In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning/Smile” offers a wistful shiver to a bygone era. And, when he solos on the tune, oh, my, the chops are tasteful and transcendent. He also takes a far-away glance with a rendition of “Old Cape Cod” that pulls the heartstrings just right.

And that’s the beauty of this entire album. There’s a calming melancholy when Pasqua plays “Polka Dots And Moonbeams,” “Prelude To A Kiss” or “When I Grow Too Old To Dream,” the set’s closing track. It’s just the kind of mood that’s needed right now, a vaccine, if you will, from a long, hard pandemic. So, put down the phone, turn off the TV, sit down with your favorite beverage and relax into the beauty of Pasqua’s Day Dream.

Nice feature article in the Sunday Arts section

of the San Diego Union-Tribune

here is the link to the article…

new solo piano CD

you can find it here..

you can download from iTunes here

The Alan Pasqua Songbook

from Sher Music has arrived.

you can order it here…https://www.shermusic.com/jazz-songbook-series.php

I have a new Master Class Series

available

https://www.mymusicmasterclass.com/premiumvideos/alan-pasqua-jazz-piano-lesson-intervallic-improvisation/

you can download it on iTunes here

you can buy the CD at CD Baby here

Hey everybody…

Now that summer is officially over I wanted to let you know that I spent my long days and short nights recording a solo piano CD of my favorite standards. Some obvious, some more obscure. My musings if you will.

It is entitled “Soliloquy”

This will be released in the next couple of weeks and I will certainly keep you posted as to when it will be available. This project was a total joy for me and I hope it will be for you as well…

March 3, The Blue Whale  9PM  •  CD Release for “Northern Lights”     http://www.bluewhalemusic.com

                                    March 25,  Sam First 8PM    https://www.samfirstbar.com/music

May 11, Los Angeles County Museum of Art  6PM    http://www.lacma.org/events-calendar?tid=69

Alan Pasqua  •  Piano

Darek Oles  •  Bass

Conor Malloy  •  Drums

Alan Pasqua, Peter Erskine and Vince Mendoza with the WDR Big Band