Pianist, percussionist, and composer Mick Rossi is known for his work in the NY Downtown scene and has been described as “one of the most courageous and gifted charismatic musicians in New York and beyond" (All About Jazz Italy). His new solo recordings include “They Have A Word For Everything“ (Knitting Factory), “Nosferatu” (Dreambox), “Inside The Sphere“ (Cadence), “New Math” (ToneScience), the up-coming “Songs From The Broken Land” (OmniTone), and his ninth recording “One Block From Planet Earth” (OmniTone), about which Down Beat gives “Four Stars” and All About Jazz describes as “life relishing, [and] unpretentiously profound.” In addition, Rossi will conduct the Public Theatre’s Shakespeare Festival production of “The Bacchae” (directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, with music by Philip Glass) in Central Park.
A member of the Philip Glass ensemble as both pianist and percussionist, he has performed and recorded all over the world with Alex Acuña, Steven Bernstein, Angela Bofill, Kelly Clarkson, Leonard Cohen, Dave Douglas, Mark Dresser, Kermit Driscoll, Billy Drewes, Peter Erskine, Eric Friedlander, Vinny Golia, Eddie Gomez, Hall and Oates, Gerry Hemingway, Carla Kihlstedt, Andy Laster, The Mahavishnu Project, Pat Martino, Randy Newman, Michael Pedicin, Jr., Carly Simon, Johnnie Valentino and Wadada Leo Smith, among others. Performances include the Knitting Factory, Fringe, and Montreux jazz festivals, WNYC’s New Sounds, NPR’s All Things Considered, John Zorn’s The Stone, Tonic, Joe’s Pub, Carnegie Hall, Jazz At Lincoln Center, Iridium, Barbes, Roulette, Metropolitan Opera, Brooklyn Philharmonic, MATA, The Public Theater, American Ballet Theater, Jay Leno and David Letterman. Recent films include “The Vagina Monologues” (HBO) and “Standing In The Shadows Of Motown” (Artisan).
