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Mick Rossi

Read "Mick Rossi" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Pianist, drummer/percussionist, and composer Mick Rossi is known for his diverse, progressive work in the New York Downtown scene where he has collaborated with the likes of Steven Bernstein, Mark Dresser, Dave Douglas, Erik Friedlander, Gerry Hemingway, Ron Horton, Andy Laster, Michael Sarin and Cuong Vu. Despite the very busy and long-standing collaborations with Philip Glass and Paul Simon, he has established himself as one of the most courageous, gifted and charismatic musicians in the New York scene and beyond ...

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Mick Rossi: 160

Read "160" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Nato come commento musicale al documentario “Albi's Oboe" di Matt Dine, 160 (è la frequenza utilizzata nella registrazione del disco) -come talvolta accade in casi del genere, si svincola dalla sua funzione originale per trasformarsi in opera che vive di vita propria, autonoma e originale. Mick Rossi suona, oltre agli usuali pianoforte e batteria, una serie di strumenti sovraincisi in tempo reale, dando vita ad un lavoro difficilmente etichettabile, al di là dei generi. Specchio fedele, per l'appunto, ...

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Mick Rossi

Read "Mick Rossi" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


01. Lhasa de Sela -La Llorona (Audiogram / Atlantic -1997). Un canto espressivo ed elegante. Orchestrazioni eccentriche e bellissime. Triste averla persa così presto. 02. Jimmy Giuffre -Thesis (Verve -1962). Ispirato e trascendente. Paul Bley e Steve Swallow complici profondi. 03. Philip Glass -Music in Twelve Parts (Orange Mountain Music -2008). Pur suonando questo pezzo con Philip dal 2006, lo temo tuttora. Questo live registrato in Italia è il mio primo ...

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Mick Rossi: Songs From The Broken Land

Read "Songs From The Broken Land" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Pianist Mick Rossi is an exemplar of the cross-fertilization between jazz and classical music worlds. While closely collaborating with Philip Glass for the last ten years, he is also very active in the downtown New York City jazz scene. Songs From The Broken Land is a much reworked, official release version of a project included in a previous All About Jazz review, Mick Rossi: Spontaneous Improvisation. The pianist's efforts have created a much stronger work, one that ...

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Mick Rossi: Songs from the Broken Land

Read "Songs from the Broken Land" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Sei variazioni su “My Old Kentucky Home" di Stephen Foster, una libera interpretazione del brano per solo viola “Solfegietto" di Johnnie Valentino e poi una serie di brevi improvvisazioni, la maggior parte delle quali con piano preparato, per un totale di ventidue tracce e quarantanove minuti. A cimentarsi in questa impresa è Mick Rossi, pianista, percussionista, compositore, mente tra le più lucide, originali e creative della scena newyorchese, a lungo collaboratore di Philip Glass. Ed in questo Songs from the ...

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Mick Rossi: Spontaneous Improvisation

Read "Mick Rossi: Spontaneous Improvisation" reviewed by Budd Kopman


The ideal for a jazz performer is to be able to reach that zone when performing where the music flows directly from their soul, with little or no interference from the thinking process--that which is felt is played right in that moment. Miles Davis is famous for telling his band members, accomplished players to be sure, to “practice on the bandstand," and many times set things up in the studio so that there could not be much, if any, rehearsal. ...

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Mick Rossi: One Block From Planet Earth

Read "One Block From Planet Earth" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz


Mick Rossi's music brings to mind a couple of things. On one hand, it's reminiscent of Richard Feynman's life and work. Feynman, as is the quintet in One Block From Planet Earth, was multifaceted, humorous, life-relishing, unpretentiously profound, and a superb communicator of abstract concepts. On the other, it's reminiscent of the primeval concept of “talking through percussion, albeit here in a drawn-out alternative musical context. This record has a full-bodied avant storytelling character and personality that successfully ...


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