Odd Times: Uncommon Etudes for Uncommon Time Signatures (2015) 
ADV 14279
ISMN 979-0-2063-0992-2, 
ISBN 978-3-95481-020-8

• Roots & Routes: A guide to developing repertoire and styles for Eb instruments, ​Edition-Gruber, Germany. 2022 (includes play-a-long CD)
• Roots & Routes: A guide to developing repertoire and styles for Bb instruments, ​Edition-Gruber, Germany. 2022 (includes play-a-long CD)
• Roots & Routes: A guide to developing repertoire and styles for C instruments, ​Edition-Gruber, Germany. 2022 (includes play-a-long CD)
• Mastering Odd Times with Darius Brubeck and Mike Rossi, online video tutorials. MusicGurus. London, UK. 2016
• Odd Times: Uncommon Etudes for Uncommon Time Signatures, Developing the Ability to Play and Improvise in Uncommon Time Signatures, Rossi, M., Brubeck, D. ADV 14279, Advance Music GmbH, Mainz, Germany 2015.
• Uncommon Bebop from Common Bebop Practices, ISBN 978-3-89221-118-1, 169 pages, Advance Music, Tübingen, Germany, 2011
• Uncommon Etudes from Common Scales, ATN, Inc., Japan, ISBN number 978-4-7549-3702-7, 109 pages, 2008
• Uncommon Etudes from Common Scales, Advance Music, Tübingen, Germany, ISBN number: 3-89221-083-7, 112 pages, 2007
• Contrast and Continuity in Jazz Improvisation: a Diatonic & Multi-Colored Approach, Advance Music, Tübingen, Germany, ISBN number: 3-89221-065-9, 220 pages, 2005

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Advance praise for Beyond the Common Practice: Uncommon Bebop from Common Bebop Practices
"Mike's newest book continues his research into developing interesting lines that still retain the integrity of the chord in question, but gradually add colorful, chromatic pitches to up the ante so to say. The way Rossi spells it out in these very musical etudes is gradual and easy to decipher leading the interested player into these areas in an organized and organic manner."
David Liebman
NEA Jazz Master
French Order of Arts and Letters

Jazz improvisation is a mystery to many, and the most challenging field of study for music students in my experience. There are those who advocate an exclusively intuitive approach to learning improvisation, while conserving the hard-earned knowledge that supports their own ability to perform. Mike Rossi is not one of those. He continues contributing to jazz education through his substantial  publications wherein his own distinctive techniques and ideas are revealed in a clear and organized manner. He has provided a wealth of material for the serious student of improvisation, such as may serve throughout one's life as a performing musician.
Dr Mike Campbell
Head: Jazz Studies
South African College of Music
University of Cape Town

During one week I experienced the complete mastery of musical teaching in the classroom of Professor Mike Rossi, where we divide the responsibility of coordinating a jazz ensemble at the IASJ meeting here in Brazil.
Always with a very good sense of humor and devotion to music, Mike led the group masterfully, illustrating with knowledge, interfering at the right moment and encouraging students to solve by themselves the issues brought by the repertoire.
In addition to all those qualities as a music teacher, I had the honor of playing alongside this exceptional artist and incredible improviser; ...creative interpretation, a powerful sound and melodic inventiveness are some of his many qualities.
Professor Rossi presents us with this book - essential to any literature on improvisation, andindispensable to anyone who is already a jazz musician or wants to become one.
Guilherme Ribeiro
Conservatório Musical Souza Lima
São Paulo- Brazil

"Mike Rossi's new book offers the jazz performer/educator a logical, clear series of etudes sure to develop advanced improvisational skills.  As was presented at the 2nd Annual Jazz Education Network Conference in New Orleans January 2011, Mike challenges and inspires players, both beginning and advanced, to find their own voices. From the birthplace of jazz to the Mother City, Mike spreads his uncommon jazz concepts in common terms to give the jazz education world yet another vehicle in which to elevate our level of performance."
Mary Jo Papich
Co-Founder/Past President
Jazz Education Network
USA

My own conviction, from performing and teaching, is that every person knows how to improvise and frequently does, the most common everyday improvisation being conversation. When people talk, especially in their mother tongue, they improvise with words that come naturally, creating flowing phrases. These words were however
not natural once; they were learnt through constant repetition, and we developed confidence until these words became part of our vocabulary. The more literature we read, the more sophisticated the conversation. The same is true in performance and improvisation, and ultimately in composition. The musician uses what is in the subconscious. If one adds unmusical information into the subconscious, unmusical is what will come out in your improvisation. Mike Rossi’s new book is full of musical phrases that once internalised will come out as poetry. This is great musical study material.
Dr. Carlo Mombelli
Senior lecturer of Jazz Studies and Improvisation
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa

In praise of Contrast and Continuity in Jazz Improvisation: a Diatonic Approach & Multi-Colored Approach

 Dave Liebman (Jazz Artist, Educator & Author) states that this is “a concept that I have personally been expounding upon for years in books and teaching “chromatic”. “This book reflects the seriousness of his (Rossi’s) dedication towards informing interested musicians about other ways to conceive of the common jazz vocabulary.”

Dr. Ian Darrington MBE PhD MA, Director of Jazz Performance Wigan Council,
European Representative of IAJE
"A wonderful resource and a MUST HAVE for all jazz educators and all serious jazz students. The attention to detail and thoughtfulness that Mike Rossi exhibits in his teaching and his playing is mirrored throughout this superb book. Excellently presented with concise text, it will prove invaluable in helping students develop and perfect the art of practising and the art of musical performance"

Darius Brubeck, (Professor, UKZN, South Africa) notes that “Dr Rossi has organized all this material around an abstract concept, “contrast and continuity”, while retaining a focus on practical exercises for improvisation. This physically challenging method shows the way to an advanced level of musical understanding and creativity. When ordering for my university program, or myself I want to know if I have the same information under a different cover. Regarding this book, the short answer is no.

Endorsements for Uncommon Etudes from Common Scales
"Following in the footsteps of his acclaimed Contrast and Continuity in Jazz Improvisation, Michael Rossi has crafted a book of etudes that are, at once, as educationally stimulating as they are musically fulfilling.  A scintillating approach and a valuable addition to every improvising musician’s resource library!”
Chuck Owen
University of South Florida Distinguished University Professor
Artistic Director, Center for Jazz Composition
Past-President, IAJE

This volume of Etudes by Mike Rossi is packed with appealing, swinging, modern, modal, model melodies. Like Dr. Rossi’s previous volume, ‘Contrast and Continuity’, this is a further contribution to learning contemporary jazz vocabulary, based on swing articulation and occasionally venturing into odd time signatures. Although intended for individual practise as preparation for soloing, selections from these Etudes were performed by saxophone ensembles accompanied by rhythm section at recent jazz education conferences I attended and they sounded great. Like worthwhile Etudes in every tradition, Uncommon Etudes focus on particular instructional outcomes while revealing the musical insights of a thoughtful and talented composer.
Darius Brubeck

"Once again as he did with his last book “Contrast” Mike has been studious in presenting material that is beyond the theoretical, but has practical and immediate use as a means of adding vocabulary to one's playing."
Dave Liebman

Uncommon Etudes from Common Scales by Professor Mike Rossi is a comprehensive addition to the field! This systematic method challenges, and intensifies, creative improvisational development utilizing melodic and rhythmic contrast. Exploring harmonic applications and related phrase development are strongly encouraged and integrated to internalize and expand the improviser's perspective, fluency ... and musicality!
Dennis Tini, Distinguished Professor of Music
Co-Founder, Jazz Studies Program, Wayne State University-Detroit
Past President, International Association for Jazz Education

"Uncommon Etudes is the secret and cure for students and pros alike when practicing scales in all keys. These etudes are firstly MUSIC and also FUN to play. Combined with the etudes is Rossi's unique Contrast concept, which transforms already hip-sounding, scale-based phrases into a multi-coloured CREATIVE sound and language.
...the "virtual" chord changes found in the appendix, allows concert instruments the opportunity to comp for transposing instruments, another excellent addition to an already great book by an ultimately fascinating person, dedicated to music at its utter best" 
Ulrich Suesse

Mike Rossi has created yet another marvellous set of materials for the serious jazz improviser.  His explanations and etudes are crystal clear.  As in his previous work, "Continuity and Contrast in Jazz Improvisation," Mike gives us a lifetime of musical practice that can only lead to more innovative and inventive performance.  Every serious jazz musician should explore this book.
Bill Prince
Multi-instrumentalist
Emeritus Professor, University of North Florida

PUBLISHED COMPOSITIONS 

Arrivo in Abruzzo, Buon Giorno Le Marche, The Forty Club, K. G. Cape Town,  Ensemble Mix,   
(2011/12 publication)

Contrasts of Cape Town, Ensemble Mix, Advance Music, Tübingen, Germany 2010.

Simba Samba, Ensemble Mix, Advance Music, Tübingen, Germany, 2010.
 
Should I? Ensemble Mix, Advance Music, Tübingen, Germany, 2010.

Scungilli, Ensemble Mix, Advance Music, Tübingen, Germany, 2010.​
        
Yearning-Ukulangazelela, Ensemble Mix, Advance Music, Tübingen, Germany, 2008.
     
Night Fright-Ubusuky Ukuthuka!, Ensemble Mix, Advance Music, Tübingen, Germany, 2008.
        
Kwazulu Zam, Ensemble Mix, Advance Music, Tübingen, Germany, 2008.

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