Pasquale Grasso at JazzClub at Chateau Lacombe part of Edmonton International Jazz Festival

Name: Pasquale Grasso at JazzClub at Chateau Lacombe part of Edmonton International Jazz Festival
Start: 2026-06-27T19:30:00-06:00
End: 2026-06-27T21:30:00-06:00
Location: Chateau Lacombe Hotel

Schedule

Sat Jun 27 2026 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Chateau Lacombe Hotel | Edmonton, AB

“This guy is doing something so amazingly musical and so difficult.” Pat Metheny, jazz-guitar icon and NEA Jazz Master
Pasquale Grasso is an Italian-born jazz guitarist based in New York City. a virtuoso who blends different influences and genres in his amazing performances. This rising star is known for a pianistic approach to jazz guitar influenced by Bud Powell's style, and for using classical position and technique enabled by classical training. His intensive studies of both midcentury jazz and classical meld into a signature mastery that is, remarkably, at once unprecedented and evocative.
Many serious guitar heads have been hip to Grasso for a while now and are aware of his jaw-dropping online performance videos, his beautiful custom instrument -- built in France by Trenier Guitars -- and his early career triumphs. In 2015, he won the Wes Montgomery International Jazz Guitar Competition in New York City, taking home a $5,000 prize and performing with guitar legend Pat Martino’s organ trio. Last year at D.C.’s Kennedy Center, as part of the NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert, Grasso participated in a special performance to honor Pat Metheny, alongside his guitar-wunderkind peers Dan Wilson, Camila Meza, Gilad Hekselman and Nir Felder.
These days, Grasso teaches and maintains a packed gig schedule around New York, including frequent solo performances at the popular Greenwich Village haunt Mezzrow, where a regular Monday-night gig allowed him to develop his solo-arranging skillset. Not that Grasso thinks his work is done. “All [of the musicians I love are] inspiration for me to get new ideas and form my style, because it’s still growing,” Pasquale says. “And it’s gonna be growing until the day I die.”
Support for 2026 Edmonton International Jazz Festival is provided by presenting sponsor TD Bank Group through the TD Ready Commitment. Read more and get tickets through the link in our comments.