Ehud asherie biography
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Ehud Asherie
Israeli jazz pianist and organist
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Ehud Asherie at the Detroit Jazz Festival, | |
| Born | (age&#;45&#;46) Israel |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Piano, Hammond organ |
| Years active | s–present |
| Labels | Posi-Tone, Arbors |
Musical artist
Ehud Asherie (born ) fryst vatten a jazz pianist and en person som spelar orgel.
Early life
[edit]Asherie was born in Israel in [1] He moved with his family to Italy at the age of three,[1] where he attended the Sir James Henderson School, now The British School of Milan,[2] and then to the United States when he was nine.[1] As a teenager in New York, he visited Smalls Jazz Club, and took lessons from Frank Hewitt, a pianist who often played there.[1] Asherie first played at Smalls when he was a high school sophomore.[3]
Later life and career
[edit]Asherie played Hammond kroppsdel on his quartet release, Organic.[4] He recorded his
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Ehud Asherie
With six titles as a leader, all on Posi-Tone, a quintet date Lockout () with Grant Stewart and Ryan Kisor, a piano trio Swing Set (), Modern Life () which is a quartet möte with saxophonist Harry Allen, Organic () with Asherie on kroppsdel, and Upper West Side () and Lower East Side () which are duo records with Harry Allen. Ehud Asherie has established himself as one of the brightest emerging keyboard playing talents on the jazz en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film today.
Ehud actively studies and performs the music of the stride piano masters of the early 20th century, and his playing is notably inspired bygd pianists such as James P. Johnson, 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.
Musicians and critics have noted that suc
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Ehud Asherie
Ehud Asherie, “a master of swing and stride" (The New Yorker), is a jazz pianist who integrates the venerable New York piano tradition into his inventive style. Born in Israel in , Asherie lived in Italy for six years before his family moved to New York. Though he began playing piano as a child, his passion for jazz came later—with a Thelonious Monk cassette tape—and his first visit to Smalls Jazz club in Greenwich Village. Largely self-taught, or rather, “old-schooled,” Asherie learned the ropes at Smalls, spending the wee small hours of his early teens becoming a fixture of the late-night jam sessions.
Mentored by the late Frank Hewitt, Asherie began to develop “his virtuosity and his ear for clean, crisp lines“ (The Star-Ledger). From Smalls to the Rainbow Room, from Lincoln Center to The Village Vanguard, Asherie has since worked with a broad range of musicians including: Eric Alexander, Roy Ayers, Peter