Nick Rossi’s Modernette

Kyle Athayde | Vibraphone
Mikiya Matsuda | Bass
Nick Rossi | Guitar
Adam Shulman | Piano
Patrick Wolff | Clarinet
Guitarist-Bandleader Nick Rossi is renown for his popular Bay Area swing dance bands, his Classic Jazz trios and quartets, and for helming a nonet/tentet dedicated to the “small group” repertoire of Duke Ellington, the Jazzopaters. Debuting his Modernette at Mr. Tipple’s, Rossi explores the music that first captured his imagination and sparked off a deep love of the art form decades ago. Early BeBop of the mid-1940s displayed a new musical vocabulary while retaining elements of the exceedingly popular Swing Era from which it emerged. Rossi’s group, which includes some of the finest modern jazz musicians in Northern California and beyond, utilizes this same approach to both standard and obscure repertoire. In addition to leading live bands or performing as a sideman, Rossi is an historian-educator-writer who teaches for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Swing U, the Jazzschool, and the College of San Mateo. His most recent liner notes were published as part of an early Dorothy Donegan collection on Solo Art. He is also the music director of the popular, annual Noir City film festival.