Alan Pasqua (born June 28, 1952 in New Jersey) is a jazz pianist and composer who co-composed the CBS Evening News Theme. He also does pop and rock music. He studied at Indiana University and the New England Conservatory of Music. Official language(s) English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ... CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963. ... Indiana University, founded in 1820, is a nine-campus university system in the state of Indiana. ... The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) in Boston, Massachusetts is the oldest independent conservatory in the United States. ...

Music

After performing at Carnegie Hall he joined jazz drummer Tony Williams's The New Tony Williams Lifetime. After doing two albums with him he "crossed-over" to rock joining Eddie Money's band and also played keyboard on two albums by Bob Dylan. Those two being Bob Dylan at Budokan and Street-Legal. In the 1980s he performed with Starship on the album No Protection and with Carlos Santana on Havana Moon. He would also be a founding member of the rock band Giant. Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street. ... Tony Williams (December 12, 1945 – February 23, 1997) was an African American jazz drummer. ... The Tony Williams Lifetime was a jazz-rock fusion group led by jazz drummer Tony Williams. ... Eddie Money (born Edward Joseph Mahoney, March 2, 1949) is an American rock musician and singer who found success in the 1970s and 1980s with a string of Top 40 hits and platinum albums. ... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ... Bob Dylan At Budokan is an audio recording taken from two different shows on February 28 and March 1, 1978. ... Street Legal can refer to: Street Legal, a 1978 album by Bob Dylan Street Legal, a Canadian television show that ran from 1987 to 1994 Street Legal, a New Zealand television series. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Jefferson Airplane is an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement. ... No Protection is a remixed Massive Attack album by Mad Professor. ... Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947), known simply as Carlos Santana or Santana, is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-born American Latin rock musician and guitarist. ... Featuring covers of Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry songs and performances by Booker T & the MGs, Willie Nelson, and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and also Carlos father Jose singing Vereda Tropical — a song Carlos had first heard when his father was serenading his mother following an argument. ... Giant is an American Rock band that was formed in 1987 by brothers Dann and David Huff. ...

Later his two solo works were in jazz and he also would work in the orchestra of his former teacher Thad Jones. Thad Jones Thaddeus Joseph Jones (March 28, 1923 - August 21, 1986) was an American jazz trumpeter. ...

Personal life

He is currently an Assistant Professor in Jazz Studies at the University of Southern California. He has recently (2007) married Lina Brunkell (Sweden). He has one daughter, Greta (1998), from a prior marriage. The Trojan Shrine, better known as Tommy Trojan in June 2006. ...

Discography and Filmography

• The Aristocrats-musician: The Aristo-Jazz Cats
• Coyote Ugly-musician
• Waterboy-composer.
• Milagro-CD
• Dedications-CD
• My New Old Friend-CD

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External links

• IMDB page
• bio at Alan Pasqua's website