Eliot Grasso Standing Room Only

 

(illen odyssey, 2004)

by Geoffrey Himes

published in Baltimore Magazine, March 2005 page 82

 

Grasso is still in college (at Goucher), but his all-instrumental solo debut album already marks him as a dazzlingly agile and lyrical piper. Playing 11 medleys of jigs, reels, hornpipes, and airs, Grasso combines brisk tempos with fluid phrasing, strong melodies, and inventive variation.