Top tracks
Listeners also bought
Other Bebop albums
Other Traditional Jazz Combo albums
Put your hands on the remote! browse music »
Home by Joe LoCascio
view larger image
fave it Bebop | Traditional Jazz Combo
14 tracks | 68 minutes
Released May 2006
on Heart Music
Click 
for a 30-second preview. All tracks are 192kbps high fidelity sound quality. Protected WMA $0.77 or unprotected MP3 $0.88.
listen album 30sec. shuffle buy CD review album promote album
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:09 Star-Crossed Lovers lyrics BUY MP3 06:09 Star-Crossed Lovers lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:09 Star-Crossed Lovers
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:35 For You lyrics BUY MP3 06:35 For You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:35 For You
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 08:21 Theme From “Picnic” lyrics BUY MP3 08:21 Theme From “Picnic” lyrics "GIFT MP3" 08:21 Theme From “Picnic”
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:50 Passion Flower lyrics BUY MP3 03:50 Passion Flower lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:50 Passion Flower
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:50 Amazing Grace lyrics BUY MP3 04:50 Amazing Grace lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:50 Amazing Grace
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:22 Ellen lyrics BUY MP3 03:22 Ellen lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:22 Ellen
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:13 Call Me Irresponsible lyrics BUY MP3 04:13 Call Me Irresponsible lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:13 Call Me Irresponsible
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:43 Funny Girl lyrics BUY MP3 03:43 Funny Girl lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:43 Funny Girl
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:43 Upper Manhattan Medical Group lyrics BUY MP3 03:43 Upper Manhattan Medical Group lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:43 Upper Manhattan Medical Group
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:19 All The Things you are lyrics BUY MP3 04:19 All The Things you are lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:19 All The Things you are
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:39 Rain Check lyrics BUY MP3 04:39 Rain Check lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:39 Rain Check
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:46 Arnett Cobb lyrics BUY MP3 04:46 Arnett Cobb lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:46 Arnett Cobb
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:46 Little Rootie Tootie lyrics BUY MP3 04:46 Little Rootie Tootie lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:46 Little Rootie Tootie
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:38 Stairway To The Stars lyrics BUY MP3 05:38 Stairway To The Stars lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:38 Stairway To The Stars
solo piano featuring show tunes
Editorial review
Heart Music gave Joe LoCascio's followers a pleasant surprise with Home, which marked the first time he had played unaccompanied solo-piano for an entire CD. Having no accompaniment at all can really expose an artist's weaknesses -- there's no drummer, guitarist or bassist to provide any type of safety net. But thankfully, LoCascio proves that he doesn't need one, and he rises to the occasion nicely on introspective, lyrical versions of material ranging from "Stairway to the Stars" and "All the Things You Are" to the traditional gospel anthem "Amazing Grace." LoCascio is in fine form on no less than three songs written or co-written by Billy Strayhorn ("Rain Check," "Star Crossed Lovers" and the haunting "Passion Flower"), and his appealing interpretation of Thelonious Monk's "Little Rootie Tootie" makes one wish the quirky tune were better known. LoCascio never sounded better than he does on Home, which was arguably the strongest album he'd done in the 1990s. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
It is rare when you can put together three creative musicians and have them perform as if they were of one mind. The Joe LoCascio Trio (Ed Soph on drums and John Adams on bass) has been performing on this level since 1990. Their textures are multi-layered and complex and convey a strong sense of melody while interacting as an ensemble. Warm and powerful, wide and round in tone, and tastefully and suspensefully restrained in his timeless schooled lyricism, LoCascio's technique is definitively dramatic and lush. Choosing to temper his velocity in order to ring out the full depth of his tone, the timbre and gravity of his tone is given equal footing with his composition, thus enhancing and sustaining the emotion evoked by his choice of notes. This is the definition of Joe LoCascio's signature sound.
Born and raised in New York, Joe LoCascio has made Houston his permanent home since 1977.
↓ more ↓