Doors @ 7:00pm
Concert @ 7:30pm
Anthony D’Alessandro Quartet feat. Jacob Chung
Join the Anthony D’Alessandro Quartet featuring NYC based Canadian saxophonist Jacob Chung for an evening of D’Alessandro’s brand new original music and arrangements, to be recorded later in the week. Consider this a sneak peak of the material on D’Alessandro’s newest upcoming album!
Featuring:
Anthony D’Alessandro – piano
Jacob Chung – tenor sax
Ernesto Cervini – drums
Jonathan Chapman – bass
Anthony D’Alessandro is a pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader based in Toronto, Canada. Hailed by the WholeNote Magazine as a pianist with a “natural feeling for swing and groove” and “scintillating technique”, he has performed in many notable clubs, concert halls and jazz festivals around the world including the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the Teatro Nescafé de las Artes in Santiago Chile, Birdland Jazz Club and Smalls Jazz Club in New York City, and Koerner Hall in Toronto. He regularly performs alongside a “who’s who” of Canada’s top jazz musicians including Caity Gyorgy, Neil Swainson, Terry Clarke, Pat LaBarbara, and Ernesto Cervini, and has performed or toured with many notable NYC based musicians including Benny Benack III, Summer Camargo, Alexander Claffy, and Joseph Farnsworth.
D’Alessandro’s debut full length album Searchin’ (2024), featuring NYC based trumpeter and vocal star Benny Benack III, debuted to critical acclaim, being called an “uplifting and feel-good jazz record” by the Paris Move, and a “gem of an album” by Jersey Jazz Magazine. His composition Tune for Monty was selected for CBC Music’s prestigious “Songs You Need to Hear” list in May 2024.
D’Alessandro’s music has taken him throughout Canada, the United States, South America, and Europe. He has performed at many of Canada’s most prestigious venues, including Koerner Hall in Toronto, and all of the major Canadian jazz festivals across the country. He has also toured across Chile under his own name, performed at jazz clubs and festivals across the United States, and presented his compositions at the Casalmaggiore International Music Festival in Casalmaggiore, Italy.
D’Alessandro frequently tours and records with two-time JUNO award winning vocalist Caity Gyorgy, having played on her most recent JUNO nominated album “Hello, How Are You?”
D’Alessandro has spent time living and studying in New York City under master pianist/organist Mike LeDonne, and holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Toronto.
