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Rick Rosato

Originally from Montreal, Rick Rosato moved to New York City in 2007 to study at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. He quickly became one of the most in-demand jazz bassists and has been maintaining an international performance schedule since. In 2010, he led a three-month-long artist series at the Upstairs Jazz Club in Montreal, where he formed several different groups featuring some of today’s most influential voices in jazz, including the co-led trio “Stranahan/Zaleski/Rosato”. In the summer of 2014, Rick competed for the TD Jazz Awards at the Montreal International Jazz Festival with his own trio and won the Galaxie Jazz Award for best composition. He is regularly touring internationally and recording with groups such as Immanuel Wilkins, Gilad Hekselman, Joel Ross, Stranahan/Zaleski/Rosato, Ben Van Gelder, David Kikoski, Dayna Stephens, Shai Maestro and Will Vinson. In addition to private teaching, Rick has led workshops all over the world and was a featured artist and educator at the Thai International Jazz Conference in 2014. 

Awards

TD Jazz Award 2014


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Album Review

Lucas Pino: Covers

Read "Covers" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Covers is a quartet date in which New York-based tenor saxophonist Lucas Pino “covers" half a dozen generally pleasing songs written by his contemporaries, alongside one each by Charlie Parker ("Relaxin' at Camarillo") and Duke Pearson ("New Girl"). Pino's smooth, articulate tenor saxophone is reinforced by guitarist Alex Goodman, bassist Rick Rosato and drummer Allan Mednard. This represents something of a departure for Pino who usually records with larger groups--including his No Net Nonet--and seldom covers other ...

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Itamar Borochov: Arba

Read "Arba" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Trumpeter Itamar Borochov is originally from the Middle East but is part of the New York jazz scene. He plays a quarter-tone trumpet which helps bring an unusual expressiveness and calm to his sound, This is well-suited to the music he plays which is steeped in the chords and scales of the Mediterranean area where he grew up. Tracks such as “Abraham" and “What Broke You?" spotlight the ethereal beauty of Borochev's sound as he broods over Rob ...

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Joel Ross: The Parable Of The Poet

Read "The Parable Of The Poet" reviewed by Chris May


The story of jazz is part musical and part social, the two strands interacting to shape, on one hand, the sound we hear and, on the other, the demographic who make it and constitute its audience. Viewed from London, the semiology surrounding New York-based vibraphonist Joel Ross' octet, heard on his third Blue Note album, The Parable Of The Poet, tells a social story as much as it does a musical one. The octet's optics (check the ...

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Roxy Coss: Disparate Parts

Read "Disparate Parts" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Let's just get thing one out into the open right away: Disparate Parts has plenty of balls to spare. Saxophonist Roxy Coss' acute, teasingly biting tone and rich, no boundaries disposition to composing and jamming has placed her high in the generational echelon of new and challenging players. She willingly and unapologetically blends and blurs the lines to suit any and all missives, and the fourteen fireballs heard loud and clear on Disparate Parts broach nothing less. Commandeering ...

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Gabriel Vicéns: The Way We Are Created

Read "The Way We Are Created" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Puerto Rican jazz guitarist & composer Gabriel Vicéns has been living in New York City since 2016 but, for this album, he chose to explore traditional Puerto Rican music (Bomba and Plena—music and dance styles born from African slavery and Caribbean influences) blended with his own compositional style. He was also exposed to Cuban Changüí, and began incorporating some stylistic devices from it into his guitar playing. The title tune begins the program with an infectious ostinato pattern ...

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Alex Goodman: Impressions in Blue and Red

Read "Impressions in Blue and Red" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Con questo splendido doppio album, Alex Goodman esce dal limbo dei talentosi chitarristi emergenti per entrare a pieno titolo tra i solisti e compositori più interessanti del jazz contemporaneo. Era proprio ora. All'età di 34 anni, con sette dischi da leader e prestigiosi premi internazionali (tra cui la vittoria al Montreux International Jazz Guitar del 2014), il chitarrista e compositore canadese ottiene i meritati riconoscimenti della critica con un'opera particolarmente matura. Un concept album che vuol associare ...

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Yaniv Taubenhouse: Moments In Trio Volume Three: Roads

Read "Moments In Trio Volume Three: Roads" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Remember the excitement you first felt drawing circles as a kid? That profoundly innocent sense of being able to construct anything inside, outside, on, or upon those circles? Faces, trees, noses. Birds. bees, roses. A wide, westward, indigo sky. A fathomless blue ocean of liquid imagination. That's what it's like when you fully and gratefully engage with NYC based pianist/composer Yaniv Taubenhouse's third go round Moments In Trio Volume Three: Roads. With his fiercely limber rhythm mates, bassist ...

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Camila Meza Appearing At Rockwood Music Hall - April 23 - With Shai Maestro, Kendrick Scott & Rick Rosato!

Camila Meza Appearing At Rockwood Music Hall - April 23 - With Shai Maestro, Kendrick Scott & Rick Rosato!

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity

SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 2016 Vocalist/Guitarist/Composer Camila Meza Continues Her Celebration of Traces LIVE AT ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL (STAGE 3) at 11:15pm Camila Meza, Shai Maestro, Rick Rosato & Kendrick Scott Traces is available on iTunes, Sunnyside Records, Amazon CAMILA MEZA continues the celebration of her brilliant, critically-acclaimed new album, Traces, with an appearance at Rockwood Music Hall- Stage @ 11:15 PM on Saturday, April 23, 2016. Camila will be joined by Shai Maestro on ...

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Arba

Greenleaf Music
2023

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Covers

Outside in Music
2023

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Disparate Parts

Outside in Music
2022

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The Parable Of The...

Blue Note Records
2022

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Moments In Trio...

Fresh Sound Records
2021

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Red Sky, Blue Water

Fresh Sound Records
2021

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Rush Hour Traffic

From: Moments In Trio Volume Three:...
By Rick Rosato

If I Loved You

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

View in Perspective

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

View in Perspective (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Sonata No. 12 Adagio

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Sonata No. 12 Adagio (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

E.T.

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Like a Fire That Consumes All Before It

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Like a Fire That Consumes All Before It (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Occam's Razor

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Toys

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

In Heaven Everything is Fine

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Impending

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Impending (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Circles in a Circle

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Choose

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

I'll Never Be the Same

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Still Life With Skull

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Still Life with Skull (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Cobalt Blue

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Zen

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Zen (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Space Behind Eugene Boch

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Space Behind Eugene Boch (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Moods

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Blue Shade

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

Blue Shade (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

No Man's Land

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

No Man's Land

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Rick Rosato

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