Pianist Paul Asaro performs across the United States, Canada, and Europe blending his own mixture of Harlem Stride Piano, Ragtime, and Jelly Roll Morton.
Graduating from Columbia College in Chicago with post-graduate work in music at Roosevelt University, Paul Asaro has performed extensively as a soloist in Jazz and Ragtime festivals, clubs, and theaters in New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Toronto and Montreal, Canada, Milwaukee, Superior and La Cross, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento, California, and Branson, Missouri as well as Switzerland and Hungary.
Also well known to bandleaders as a strong and experienced ensemble pianist and accompanist, he has played with Jim Beebe’s Chicago Jazz, Connie Jones' Classic Jazz All-Stars, drum great Barrett Deems' Big Band, Bill Russo’s Chicago Jazz Ensemble, and Doug Finke's Independence Hall Jazz Band.
Asaro has performed with such jazz legends as Marian McPartland, Steve Allen, Leon Redbone, and Jim Galloway, as well as playing and recording with such emerging stars and "young lions" like Jon-Erik Kellso, Duke Heitger, Brian Ogilvie, and Orange Kellin. He has played the part of "The Professor" along side Vernel Bagneris in the New York Off Broadway production and national tour of Jelly Roll! The Music and the Man. Starting in 1995, Asaro became house pianist aboard the legendary steamboat Mississippi Delta Queen, based in New Orleans. In 1998, he started a long run playing solo piano at "Julia's in Wallingford" in Seattle, WA. During 2000 and 2001 he toured with his own trio throughout the country, receiving rave reviews and producing two live CD's . Currently Paul is based in the Chicago area and is touring regularly with Leon Redbone and as a much in demand soloist.
For more information, visit Paul Asaro's website at www.paulasaro.com .