Nick Rossi

Nick Rossi brings a lifetime of deep musical devotion to The Deluxe, a Bay Area guitar legend who rose through the local R&B scene with The Loved Ones and Ron Silva & The Monarchs before dedicating himself fully to jazz guitar and its history from the 1920s through the 1960s. Internationally recognized as a premiere swing dance bandleader with his hard-driving Swing Four/Six and the founder of the Jazzopaters — one of the few ensembles anywhere dedicated to Duke Ellington’s small-group repertoire — Rossi is equally celebrated as a writer, historian, and researcher whose work has appeared in Acoustic Guitar, The Fretboard Journal, and liner notes for Resonance and Ace Records. A true custodian of the jazz tradition, this is a musician who doesn’t just play the music — he lives it.