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As a kid growing up in Northern California, Rome Ramirez, known professionally as ROME, taught himself to play guitar in his family’s garage and soon began penning songs with a warm and potent honesty. By the time he’d reached his late teens, he’d moved to Los Angeles and quickly landed his dream job: serving as frontman for a revived iteration of iconic ska-punk act Sublime, his all-time favorite band. Since co-founding Sublime with Rome in 2009, Ramirez has released three albums with the trio and toured with the likes of 311, The Offspring, Cypress Hill, and Incubus, all while continuing to craft his own deeply confessional songs. As he gears up to share his solo work with the world, Ramirez hopes that his songs might leave listeners with the same joy and solace he finds in creating music. “Especially during lockdown, the feeling of connection I got from playing songs for people on live streams gave me a whole new sense of purpose,” he says. “With the music I’m putting out now, one of the main goals is to build a community of people who want to lift each other up and really celebrate the moment. Life’s been so good to me, so now I want to pay it forward and bring that energy to everybody else.”

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Performance / Tour

Mark Kostabi To Host Exclusive Salon Concert At His Rome Villa On Friday, July 18, 2025

Mark Kostabi To Host Exclusive Salon Concert At His Rome Villa On Friday, July 18, 2025

Source: Robert C. Ford

On Friday, July 18, 2025, internationally renowned artist and musician Mark Kostabi, famed for painting the iconic Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion album cover, will open the doors of his luxury villa in Rome, Italy, for an intimate salon concert. In addition to his celebrated visual art, Kostabi is an accomplished composer and pianist whose collaborations include jazz legend Ornette Coleman. For this special evening, he will be joined by a lineup of acclaimed performers, including: Tony Esposito: legendary ...

Recording

Pat Senatore: Groovin' in Rome

Pat Senatore: Groovin' in Rome

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

At the start of his recording career in 1961, bassist Pat Senatore played in Stan Kenton 's band, both on the road and in the studio. You'll find him on Adventures in Standards and Adventures in Jazz for Capitol. In 1962, Pat joined Les Brown's band and played on TV shows. Then in early 1965, Herb Alpert, whose Tijuana Brass's albums had became massive hits, called. He was forming band to tour the music. The Wrecking Crew had been doing ...

Video / DVD

Video: Mulligan in Rome, 1959

Video: Mulligan in Rome, 1959

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

On July 19, 1959, baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan was on tour in Rome, performing at the Teatro Adriano. Joining him was trumpeter Art Farmer, bassist Bill Crow and drummer Dave Bailey. The performance was captured by Italian television and issued recently on DVD. Part of the concert was posted at YouTube about two weeks ago. The songs on the clip: As Catch Can; Moonlight in Vermont; Spring Is Sprung (with Mulligan on piano). Then the clip seems to repeat itself. ...

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Recording

Vito Rezza and 5after4 - Rome in a Day (2011)

Vito Rezza and 5after4 - Rome in a Day (2011)

Source: Something Else!

You might read the artist name and album title and think this is a record of Italian music but, no, not exactly. 5AFTER4 is a rock-jazz outfit out of Toronto led by its drummer, Vito Rezza, and though Rezza was born in Italy, he's been in Canada for so long that a recent whirlwind trip to the country's historic capital was full of marvel to this transplanted North American musician. But like all serious musicians who are also composers, he ...

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Education

Barry Harris jazz workshop and concert in Rome, March 21-25

Barry Harris jazz workshop and concert in Rome, March 21-25

Source: anna pantuso

BARRY HARRIS JAZZ WORKSHOP From Monday 21 to Friday 25 March 2011 Felt music club & school, via degli Ausoni 84, ROME Barry Harris is one of the world's most respected jazz piano players and teachers, considered by many to be the foremost interpreter of the music of Bud Powell, Tadd Dameron and Thelonious Monk. For more than half a century, Harris has played with the giants of jazz including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, ...

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Radio

B.J. Jansen Interviewed Rome Neal on the Jazz Life.

B.J. Jansen Interviewed Rome Neal on the Jazz Life.

Source: JM Creative

B.J. Jansen interviewed Rome Neal, Vocalist/Actor (in “Monk"), Promoter/Producer of Banana Puddin' Jazz Jam and Art Director/Chairman for the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe in New York City This interview is Part 5 of Jansen's Jazz Industry Talks, exploring the future of the Jazz Industry behind the music. Jansen created his show, “The Jazz Life," to bring audiences to the next generation of jazz artists who struggle to receive airplay in the United States. ...

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Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Linda Presgrave Plays "Rome," Plus Danita Mumphard and Trio Tres Bien's "A House is Not a Home"

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Linda Presgrave Plays "Rome," Plus Danita Mumphard and Trio Tres Bien's "A House is Not a Home"

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

Since this weekly feature is often used to preview touring artists who will be performing soon in St. Louis, it's been a while since we've presented any videos from musicians with more substantive local connections. Let's address that situation today, starting up above with a video from pianist, composer, and St. Louisan-turned New Yorker Linda Presgrave. This performance of her composiion “Rome" was recorded on February 25 of this year ...

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Event

Boys & Girls Choir of Harlem Alumni Ensemble to Record & Film in Rome, NY

Boys & Girls Choir of Harlem Alumni Ensemble to Record & Film in Rome, NY

Source: All About Jazz

The world-renowned Boys & Girls Choir of Harlem Alumni Ensemble comes to RFA in Rome, NY on October 13th to record and perform LIVE with the YCCA Wind Ensemble. PBS will be filming this historical concert for a one-hour DVD Special. Ticket sales go to support the YCCA Music Program. The Boys Choir of Harlem Alumni Choir (The Alumni Choir), created February 2007 under the direction of Terry Wright(head choreographer, assistant director and lead singer of the Boys Choir of ...

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Obituary

Tony Scott Service Will Be 5PM Today (Rome Time) at the Church of the Artists

Tony Scott Service  Will Be 5PM Today (Rome Time) at the Church of the Artists

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

The clarinetist Tony Scott died on March 28th in Rome, Italy, at the age of 86. The cause was prostate cancer. He died at his home in Rome.

The memorial service will be 5pm tomorrow (Rome time) at the church of the artists. Then the body will be flown to Sicily, the family ancestral home (Scott's family name was Sciacca).

He had started playing the clarinet at the age of 12 and with 14 had founded his first quartet. While ...

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