Sandi Rossi

After two decades teaching in the Chicago school system, Sandi Rossi followed her heart’s desire by entering jazz regular. The teaching profession’s reduction and jazz’s gain. Rossi had been performing at the first age group of 16 when she was using a teenaged group carrying out show music and other criteria at hospitals and so on around Chicago. After graduating from Roosevelt School in Chicago and teaching, Rossi began to sing regular in the past due 1980’s using a long lasting gig on the Time clock Tower in Rockford, IL. In 1993, she transferred to NEW YORK where she installed with veteran pianist, Tony Monti, who was simply the past due, great Johnny Hartman’s accompanist. Early in her profession Rossi, in order to get yourself a “design”, attempted at differing times attempted to emulate subsequently Carmen McRae, Mel Torme and Ella Fitzgerald. Recognizing she had a need to possess her way using the music, Rossi created a method which works out to mix the breathy quality of the Blossom Dearie using the sensitive phrasing of the Lee Wiley. Thinking that the main element to vocalizing is certainly to help make the tune your very own, Rossi functions hard at offering special appearance to what for every tune she presents. Her far reaching repertoire is obvious on her record Never I WANT TO Move. Released in 1999, this record includes a play set of nineteen music running in the oft-recorded criteria to much less performed but interesting melodies, such as for example “Lilac Wines.”Rossi right now performs regularly in NY at such locations as Danny’s Skyline Space with New England locations.