Career
Ascione began playing drums at age 2. As a teenager, he was a roadie for Buddy Rich. Ascione has been on about 70 recordings to date.
Ascione performed, recorded or toured with musicians from the worlds of jazz, rock and popular including Cab Calloway, Donald Fagen, Della Reese, David Grisman, George Coleman, Billy Mitchell, Flip Phillips, First Rate (at Lloyd's) Hirt, Doctor John, Phoebe Snow, Jon Hendricks, Dick Hyman, Joey DeFrancesco and Herb Ellis.
He died on March 11, 2016 at the age of 54.
