Andy and Zack Page didn't find their way to music. They were born into it, four minutes apart, shaped by the same household of blues, heavy metal, old-time singing, and the kind of deep listening that doesn't require a lesson plan. Raised in New Jersey with roots stretching back into the North Carolina mountains, the twin brothers have spent their lives in parallel pursuit of the same thing: the moment when two musicians share a frequency so completely it feels like one mind.
Andy Page on guitar and Zack Page on bass bring to Little Jumbo an intimacy that only comes from a lifetime of playing together, roughly forty years of shared musical history between two people who, as the story goes, used to show up at open jams and quietly lay waste to every preconception in the room.
Andy is a Senior Lecturer of Jazz Guitar at Appalachian State University's Hayes School of Music, where he teaches not just applied guitar but the history of rock, heavy metal culture, and jazz theory, a curriculum that tells you everything about how he hears music: as a single, continuous human conversation, not a series of genres. He has performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Japan's Muroran Jazz Cruise, and for jazz workshops in Freiburg, Germany, and has shared stages with jazz artists including Phil Woods, Jamey Aebersold, and Matt Wilson. He has played private engagements for former President Bill Clinton and poet Maya Angelou.
Zack, meanwhile, is one of Asheville's most celebrated freelance bassists, whose work with jazz ensembles, theater companies, and the cruise industry has taken him to all 50 U.S. states and across the Caribbean, Australia, South America, Europe, and the Far East. In a jazz context, he has played and recorded with Billy Higgins, Delfeayo Marsalis, Cyrus Chestnut, Marvin Stamm, Eddie Daniels, and Babik Reinhardt, the son of Django Reinhardt himself. He teaches bass at UNC Asheville and remains one of the most in-demand musicians the region has produced.
What they carry into the room together is rarer than the résumés suggest. It's the particular ease of two people who learned music from the same father, marched in the same band, and have spent four decades developing a shorthand that bypasses language entirely. On any given night at Little Jumbo, they may bring with them some of the finest musicians Western North Carolina has to offer, guests drawn from the deep well of a music community that both brothers have spent careers helping to build.
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On their twelfth Christmas, Pete Page gave one son a guitar and the other a bass. The old man loved Booker T. & the M.G.'s and worshipped Duck Dunn, and he had a theory that every good band needs a good bass man. He wasn't wrong. Andy got the guitar. Zack — four minutes younger, identical in face, opposite in instrument — got the bass. Their mother came from the McGhees of Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, a family whose old-time music roots run back generations through the Appalachian soil....
Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Andy Page has become a cornerstone of Boone's vibrant music scene as a senior lecturer of jazz guitar at Appalachian State University's Hayes School of Music. For over two decades, this versatile virtuoso has woven his guitar strings through the fabric of the High Country's musical landscape, transforming local venues into stages of sonic storytelling. Together with his twin brother Zack, Andy has been known to arrive at open jams and parties, captivating...