By Cosimo-Filippini
Stephanie, Paolo and Friends
Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 2pm
Haddonfield United Methodist Church
29 Warwick Road
Haddonfield, NJ 08033
Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi, with Rob Adkins on bass and Jay Lepley on drums to round out a quartet. As always, featuring piano two-and four-hands, traditional ragtime, stride and boogie woogie, with forays in the Great American Songbook besides.
Lineup
Stephanie Trick - piano
Paolo Alderighi - piano
Rob Adkins - bass
Jay Lepley - drums
Background
Pioneers in the use of four-hands piano in jazz, Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi have earned widespread success with their arrangements of classics from the stride piano, ragtime, and boogie woogie traditions, as well as from the Swing Era and the Golden Age of Tin Pan Alley. In recent projects, they have focused on the repertoire created during a time when musicals were at the heart of popular culture: the Classical Hollywood Cinema period and the Golden Age of Broadway, since the songs written between the 1920s and 1960s represent a high point and creative ferment in American popular music. Blending impeccable technique with mature musicality, the piano duo has performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia, winning the acclaim of critics and fans alike.
Bassist Rob Adkins has been a consistent presence in New York City’s burgeoning traditional jazz and swing scene since 2007. He has performed regularly with Ricky Alexander, Gordon Au’s Grand Street Stompers, Sweet Megg, Dan Levinson, Emily Asher’s Garden Party, Tamar Korn, Mona's Hot Four and several others. Originally from Newton, MA, Rob is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Drummer Jay Lepley has lived and performed in New York City for twenty-four years. Hailing from Seattle, WA, he graduated with a BFA in jazz performance from The New School Jazz Program in 2004. He has developed a reputation as a passionate and stylish performer and appeared with many jazz and traditional jazz groups, including Terry Waldo's Gotham City Band, Michael Arenella and His Dreamland Orchestra, Dan Levinson, Champian Fulton, Tamar Korn, the Tom Abbott Orchestra, the New Wonders, Emily Asher’s Garden Party, and Dandy Wellington & His Band.
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