Motswako Collective - Jazz in the Garden, Sunday 22 June 2025, Senigallia - featuring Mike Rossi and Suraj Nirwan
The Cape Town Big Band Jazz Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and there are 4 nights of Big Band music at the Baxter Concert Hall from 28 to 31 May.
The Mike Rossi Project performed at the Holy Trinity Church in Kalk Bay on Friday 30 May. Programme notes can be found under the Mike Rossi Project TAB.
The Mike Rossi Project album Roots & Routes was released on 11 November 2022 and is available on all digital platforms including Apple Music, iTunes, Deezer, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, etc.
Blake Hellaby - piano
Mike Campbell - bass
Kevin Gibson - drums
Mike Rossi - saxophones, flute, clarinet, piccolo
William Haubrich - trombone
Darren English - trumpet
Lilavan Gangen - percussion
CD Review by Gwen Ansell on sisgwenjazz
https://sisgwenjazz.wordpress.com/2023/02/12/two-new-albums-from-south-african-jazz-teachers/
Blake Hellaby - piano
Mike Campbell - bass
Kevin Gibson - drums
Mike Rossi - saxophones, flute, clarinet, piccolo
William Haubrich - trombone
Darren English - trumpet
Lilavan Gangen - percussion
CD Review by Gwen Ansell on sisgwenjazz
https://sisgwenjazz.wordpress.com/2023/02/12/two-new-albums-from-south-african-jazz-teachers/
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My new books and play-along "Roots & Routes" were published in May 2022 by Edition Gruber, Germany.
Roots & Routes: A Guide to Developing Repertoire and Styles (play along & books for C, Bb, Eb instruments).
This collection of (twelve) original pieces was inspired by many years of musical travels and experiences in Africa, Japan, Brazil, Europe and the US. My previous 4 books mainly examined specific approaches to jazz improvisation. These 12 compositions demonstrate the influences of World and Ethnic Music on jazz, with a particular focus on the music of Southern Africa.
The play-along is intended for a wide range of instruments with medium to advanced levels of instrumental proficiency. The tempos range from medium slow to medium fast. Musical styles include samba, swing, New Orleans second line, jazz rock, kwela, ghoema, mbaquanga and mzabalazo.
Please check out the tabs on the left that represent various fields of my performing and teaching career. I will be adding material on a regular basis with a special focus on jazz education. I hope you find this material useful and enlightening.
un caro saluto!
Mike
Roots & Routes: A Guide to Developing Repertoire and Styles (play along & books for C, Bb, Eb instruments).
This collection of (twelve) original pieces was inspired by many years of musical travels and experiences in Africa, Japan, Brazil, Europe and the US. My previous 4 books mainly examined specific approaches to jazz improvisation. These 12 compositions demonstrate the influences of World and Ethnic Music on jazz, with a particular focus on the music of Southern Africa.
The play-along is intended for a wide range of instruments with medium to advanced levels of instrumental proficiency. The tempos range from medium slow to medium fast. Musical styles include samba, swing, New Orleans second line, jazz rock, kwela, ghoema, mbaquanga and mzabalazo.
Please check out the tabs on the left that represent various fields of my performing and teaching career. I will be adding material on a regular basis with a special focus on jazz education. I hope you find this material useful and enlightening.
un caro saluto!
Mike
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Mike Rossi : Roots & Routes
A guide to developing repertoire & styles
(play along & books for C, Bb, Eb instruments)
Available from:
www.all-sheetmusic.com/Artists/Mike-Rossi/
https://www.alle-noten.de/
A guide to developing repertoire & styles
(play along & books for C, Bb, Eb instruments)
Available from:
www.all-sheetmusic.com/Artists/Mike-Rossi/
https://www.alle-noten.de/
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The Jazzanians were a multi-racial student jazz ensemble spearheaded by Darius and Catherine Brubeck, in Durban, South Africa under Apartheid. Their 1988 album, We Have Waited Too Long, has been restored and remastered by Peter Beckmann, Mastering Engineer of TechnologyWorks from an old recording, for release on 12th April this year.
*Album Review by Mike Rossi can be found under the tab South African Jazz
Personnel: Johnny Mekoa: trumpet/valve trombone, Andrew Eagle: guitar, Zim Ngqawana: alto saxophone/flute, Nic Paton: tenor & soprano saxophones, Melvin Peters: piano/keyboards, Victor Masondo: bass, Lulu Gontsana: drums/percussion.
Released by Ubuntu Music 2024.
Originally recorded and mixed at Sound Crew Studio, Natal, South Africa, 1988.
Album track order: Bayete, Zandile, Peace Meal, Badisa, We Have Waited Too Long, The Rainbow, Se Hamba Nabo.
Personnel: Johnny Mekoa: trumpet/valve trombone, Andrew Eagle: guitar, Zim Ngqawana: alto saxophone/flute, Nic Paton: tenor & soprano saxophones, Melvin Peters: piano/keyboards, Victor Masondo: bass, Lulu Gontsana: drums/percussion.
Released by Ubuntu Music 2024.
Originally recorded and mixed at Sound Crew Studio, Natal, South Africa, 1988.
Album track order: Bayete, Zandile, Peace Meal, Badisa, We Have Waited Too Long, The Rainbow, Se Hamba Nabo.
The transformative power of jazz ...
Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and On the Road covers a significant passage in South African history (1983–2006) and the transformative effect of jazz at university and at large. It is a memoir, replete with anecdotes and adventures, in part a double biography and a one-off story. From their invented base, the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music at the University of Natal, Cathy and Darius Brubeck managed and organised numerous bands, concerts and tours around the world.
In retrospect, they were ahead of the 'transformation' curve, with their many improvised solutions to social, legal and administrative challenges. The book includes sad and comic incidents as well as insightful portraits of the people who made music throughout this politically turbulent time. The jazz life itself was often chaotic but nevertheless a resilient response to the bitterness of an unjust society. With the patronage of international jazz stars, in particular Darius's famous father, Dave Brubeck, jazz on campus spoke to the times. Playing the Changes is richly detailed with insider knowledge, information Cathy and Darius provide from their own papers and lived experiences.
*My wife Diane Rossi and I both feature in this book with relation to our involvement with jazz and jazz education in South Africa since the 1980s and our long friendship with the Brubecks.
*Available internationally on 9 July 2024 from the University of Illinois Press
In retrospect, they were ahead of the 'transformation' curve, with their many improvised solutions to social, legal and administrative challenges. The book includes sad and comic incidents as well as insightful portraits of the people who made music throughout this politically turbulent time. The jazz life itself was often chaotic but nevertheless a resilient response to the bitterness of an unjust society. With the patronage of international jazz stars, in particular Darius's famous father, Dave Brubeck, jazz on campus spoke to the times. Playing the Changes is richly detailed with insider knowledge, information Cathy and Darius provide from their own papers and lived experiences.
*My wife Diane Rossi and I both feature in this book with relation to our involvement with jazz and jazz education in South Africa since the 1980s and our long friendship with the Brubecks.
*Available internationally on 9 July 2024 from the University of Illinois Press
My new book co-authored with Darius Brubeck , Odd Times: Uncommon Etudes for Uncommon Time Signatures was launched in January 2015 at the 6th annual Jazz Education Network Conference in San Diego, CA. Please visit www.schott-music.com or my Publications tab for more information.
