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Zeno de Rossi

Rootless Cosmopolitan Jazz Cowboy

About Me

"I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member." (Groucho Marx)
...the estimable Zeno de Rossi on drums, who moved from subtlest gradations of pulsation to kickass powerhouse tub-thumper in the blink of a millisecond (the snail crawls across the edge of the razor blade) - Gary Lucas NYC
Zeno de Rossi was born in Verona, Italy in the year of the dog on Elul 9, 5730 under the sign of virgo. It was a thursday.
Zeno plays drums in the following bands: SULTRY, SHTIK, MESHUGE KLEZMER BAND, ROPE, MICKEY FINN + CUONG VU, GALLO AND THE ROOSTERS, ENRICO TERRAGNOLI ORCHESTRA VERTICAL, FRANCO D'ANDREA NEW QUARTET / FIVE, VINICIO CAPOSSELA, GUANO PADANO, HOUDINI's CAGE (featuring GREG COHEN), FRANCESCO BEARZATTI TINISSIMA, SLIDE FAMILY, MAURO OTTOLINI SOUSAPHONIX BAND a.o.
His stylistic versatility have been featured with Chris Speed, Cuong Vu, Greg Cohen, Briggan Krauss, Anthony Coleman, Josh Roseman, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Ben Street, Jay Rodriguez, Jamie Saft, Ted Reichman, Oscar Noriega, Frank London, Dave Harris, Pete Fitzpatrick, Ralph Alessi, Jessica Lurie, Danijel Zezelj, Kyle Gregory, Paolo Birro, Giovanni Maier, Francesco Bearzatti, Gianluca Petrella, Simone Guiducci, Franco D'Andrea, Stefano Battaglia, Gianni Gebbia, Vincenzo Vasi, Domenico Caliri, Daniele D'Agaro, Marco Cappelli, Cristina Zavalloni, Giovanni Falzone, Vinicio Capossela, Roy Paci, Matteo Salvatore, Marc Ribot, Flaco Jimenez, Shane Mac Gowan, Vinicius Cantuaria, Mario Brunello, Mark Orton, Gary Valente, David Murray, Amy Denio, Paul Shapiro, Papos Manolis, Simone Massaron, Xabier Iriondo, Massimo Pupillo, Carla Bozulich, Ben Goldberg, Gary Lucas, Curtis Hasselbring a.o.
From 2005 he is a member of the El Gallo Rojo collective.
Zeno has toured in Italy, Finland, Austria, Germany, France, England, Switzerland, Holland, Poland, Slovenja, Croatia, Belgium, Spain, Mexico, Perù, China, Greece, Cuba, Ethiopia, Canada, Portugal, Serbia, Indonesia, Canary Islands and the USA.
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Member Since: 10/18/2006
Band Website: zenoderossi.com
Band Members: SHTIK (Hava Nagila):
Nicola Fazzini alto sax + Francesco Bigoni tenor sax + J Kyle Gregory trumpet + Alfonso Santimone piano + Pasquale Mirra vibes + Danilo Gallo bass + Zeno de Rossi drums

SHTIK (Chavalah):
Achille Succi bass clarinet + Nicola Fazzini alto sax + Francesco Bigoni tenor sax + J Kyle Gregory trumpet + Alfonso Santimone piano + Stefano Senni bass + Zeno de Rossi drums

SULTRY (The Daniel Quinn Theme):
Chris Speed tenor sax + Stefano Senni bass + Zeno de Rossi drums + Anthony Coleman hammond A-100 organ + Enrico Terragnoli guitar

KRIMINAL MUSEUM (The Ballad of Ichabod Crane):
Briggan Krauss harmonica + Jamie Saft lap steel + Zeno de Rossi drums

FRIENDS OF RUMMENIGGE (Sul luogo del delitto):
Francesco Bearzatti tenor sax + Gerhard Gschloessl trombone + Christian Schantz bass + Zeno de Rossi drums

SULTRY (Bagels in Berlin):
Zeno de Rossi drums + Enrico Terragnoli guitar + Stefano Senni bass + Francesco Bigoni tenor sax + Federico Squassabia keyboards

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Influences: Ivano Bordon, Shelly Manne, Franz Kline, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stanley Kubrick, Charles Mingus, Gian Maria Volonte, Sergio Leone, Philip Roth, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Marcello Mastroianni, Ornette Coleman, Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Buster Keaton, The Marx Brothers, Yuri Gagarin, Ricardo Zamora (el Divino), Peter Sellers, Paul Auster, Italo Svevo, Franz Kafka, Thelonious Monk, Claudia Cardinale, Diego Rivera, Johan Cruijff, Manuel Posada, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Paul Motian, Mickey Katz, Ennio Morricone, Woody Allen, Robert De Niro, Marvin Gaye, Harry Houdini, Arthur Fellig (Weegee), Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Malamud, Irving Fields, Henry Zeno, Ed Blackwell, Duke Ellington, Herbie Nichols, Serge Gainsbourg, Bill Frisell, John Zorn, Elio Petri, Gustav Mahler, Sam Musiker, Kurt Weill, Bill Triglia, El Gallo Rojo, Albert Einstein, Jean Gabin, Iker Casillas a.o.
Record Label: www.elgallorojorecords.com
Type of Label: Indie