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Mick Rossi: Spontaneous Improvisation
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, ...
Mick Rossi: One Block From Planet Earth
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 ...
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.
Mick Rossi/Russ Johnson: New Math
by Terrell Kent Holmes
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 ...
Mick Rossi: They Have A Word For Everything
by Glenn Astarita
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 ...
