Ehud Asherie (born 1979) is a
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
pianist and organist.
Early life
Asherie was born in Israel in 1979.
[Reney, Tom (February 8, 2012]
"Is Ehud Asherie in Town?"
JazzTimes. He moved with his family to Italy at the age of three,
where he attended the Sir James Henderson School, now
The British School of Milan
The British School of Milan (BSM), formerly "The Sir James Henderson School," is a non-profit English-language IB World School founded in 1969 by members of the British Community in Milan, with support from the British Chambers of Commerce. The sc ...
,
and then to the United States when he was nine.
As a teenager in New York, he visited
Smalls Jazz Club
Smalls Jazz Club is a jazz club at 183 West 10th Street, Greenwich Village, New York City. Established in 1994, it earned a reputation in the 1990s as a "hotbed for New York's jazz talent" with a "well-deserved reputation as one of the best places ...
, and took lessons from
Frank Hewitt
Frank Hewitt (October 23, 1935 – September 5, 2002) was an American hard bop jazz pianist.
Life and career
Born in Queens, New York, Hewitt lived most of his life in Harlem. His mother was a church pianist, and he initially studied classica ...
, a pianist who often played there.
Asherie first played at Smalls when he was a high school sophomore.
Later life and career
Asherie played
Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...
on his 2010 quartet release, ''Organic''. He recorded his first solo piano album, ''
Welcome to New York'', in 2010.
[Tannenbaum, Perry (May 2011]
"Ehud Asherie – Welcome to New York"
''JazzTimes''.
Playing style
AllMusic's Ken Dryden commented on Asherie's ''Welcome to New York'' that "on his earlier CDs he mixed
bop,
swing, and
standards Standard may refer to:
Symbols
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* Standard (emblem), a type of a large symbol or emblem used for identification
Norms, conventions or requirements
* Standard (metrology), an object th ...
with an occasional taste of
stride
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, but for these solo piano sessions, he focuses more on stride and standards".
[Dryden, Ke]
"Ehud Asherie – Welcome to New York"
AllMusic. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
Discography
An asterisk (*) indicates that the year is that of release.
As leader/co-leader
As sideman
References
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1979 births
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American male musicians
21st-century American pianists
American jazz pianists
American male pianists
American people of Israeli descent
American male jazz musicians
Posi-Tone Records artists
Arbors Records artists