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Mick Rossi: Spontaneous Improvisation

by Budd Kopman
December 30, 2005

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, ...

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Mick Rossi: One Block From Planet Earth

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

by Javier AQ Ortiz
June 10, 2005

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 ...

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New Math

By Mick Rossi

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004
Track listing: 2.70; 3.30; 2.90; 1.91; 1.10; 1.22; 1.50; 2.20; 1.13; 2.14; 4.30.

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Mick Rossi/Russ Johnson: New Math

Read "New Math" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
April 24, 2004

On New Math trumpeter Russ Johnson and pianist/flutist/percussionist Mick Rossi expand the limits of improvisation and invention. Their duets are musical poetry slams, a blueprint for performance jazz, with three-digit numbers identifying the songs on this envelope-shredding disc. “2.70” begins with a wailing trumpet salvo from Johnson that sounds like a Dixieland ululation, with Rossi’s piano ...

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They Have A Word For Everything

By Mick Rossi

Label: Knitting Factory
Released: 2000

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Mick Rossi: They Have A Word For Everything

Read "They Have A Word For Everything" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 1, 2000

With his first recording for Knitting Factory Records, pianist/composer Mick Rossi exhibits a thoroughly modern jazz spirit through strong multifarious compositions backed by a star studded ensemble who are among today's modern jazz pioneers - also synonymous with the New York City downtown scene. Rossi's impressive and multidimensional resume may seem like a musician/composer's dream. Here ...