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FREE CONCERT, Sun. July 22, 7PM in Pasadena @ Levitt Pavilion, Memorial Park…

Myself on piano, Peter Erskine, drums; Darek Oles, bass; Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet and Greg Johnson, saxophone.  Hope you all can make it! http://www.levittpavilionpasadena.org/

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I’ll be performing with Darek Oles, Peter Erskine and Chuck Manning this Saturday night….

at the Presbyterian Church in Pasadena.  Please come and be with us…For more info on the address and time of the concert, please go to my blog page or click on the “READ MORE” button to go there…..

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This Thursday-Saturday @ Indiana University….myself, Randy Brecker, Peter Erskine and Bob Hurst……..

to celebrate David Baker’s 80th Birthday!!  We are all alumni, and studied under David at I.U. It’s going to be a GROOVE…..

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in case you missed it…Peter Erskine, Gene Perla and myself….

playing my arrangement of Con Alma.  Enjoy the music!  AP

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new article in KEYBOARD MAGAZINE…

Check out the APRIL issue of KEYBOARD MAGAZINE….
“IMPROVISE WITH INTERVALS”, my tutorial on the intervalic approach to improvising.

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Alan Pasqua, Gene Perla and Peter Erskine Trio this coming Saturday night at Alva’s Showroom, San Pedro, 8PM

Our good friend and bassist extraordinaire Gene Perla will be in town this week.  Peter and I are lucky to grab him for an evening of trio music, some old, some new.  I hope you can join us for what will be a very special night.

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the Alan Pasqua Songbook is finally here!

 

 

Presenting Concepts for Improvisation, Volume 3! I have included 13 of my compositions transcribed as I played them on various recordings. Includes “Highway 14”, “Barcelona”, “My New Old Friend”, “To Love Again”, “Vienna”, “San Michele”, and “Surrender” among others. You may order it ……….here.

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I LOVE this record…this is why I LOVE music….

from Joe Cocker “Stingray” with the very best band EVER,,,,”Stuff”.  That would be Richard Tee, Eric Gale, Gordon Edwards and Steve Gadd. Listen to how this track builds…it is pure genius.

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Lars Danielsson…this man is a genius. Listen…..

Swedish Bassist Lars Danielsson here at the Jazz Baltica 2010. This man’s music is special.  So beautiful, so visual, so much space here to interact with the music. The band is wonderful. I had the great pleasure of playing with drummer Magnus Öström last year when I was in Stockholm. I was playing with the great tenor saxophonist Lennart Åberg, and Magnus was playing drums. Magnus was a force and had a pocket as wide as a Vermont barn!  So hip!! Magnus was also the drummer in E.S.T., the amazing trio with the late, great pianist Esbjörn Svensson, and supreme bassist Dan Berglund. I hope you enjoy this wonderful Scandinavian music….

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Check out My Photography Page….

My hobby and passion is photography…music and photography are the yin/yang for me.  One tangible and malleable (photography) , the other intangible and best left as a first impression (music). I am into shooting HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos…it is where I shoot one image with as many as 9 different exposures, and then combine them together for the final shot. It is so much fun…WAY BETTER THAN PRO TOOLS!!! 🙂 I hope you enjoy what moves me and what I enjoy seeing….feel free to leave me a comment!  Have a beautiful holiday!