Jorge Rossy
Jorge Rossy, Barcelona 1964 (also known as Jordi Rossy) started playing drums at age 11. Between 1980 and 1989 toured and recorded extensively with most musicians in the Spanish scene and some internationally acclaimed artists as Woody Shaw, Kenny Wheeler, Jack Walrath, Dave Schinitter, Sal Nistico, Sean Levitt and others.
In 1989 moved to Boston to study trumpet at Berklee College of Music. In Boston Jorge became the drummer of choice for many of his peers and joined Danilo Pérez trio for some gigs in Panama, France, Boston and New York, then joined Paquito D’Rivera sextet for 2 years and moved to New York City in 1991. In New York, Jordi played in the early recordings of many of his Boston friends like Mark Turner, Chris Cheek, Seamus Blake, Kurt Rosenwinkel and some other musicians then living in the city like Brad Mehldau, Ethan Iverson, Reid Anderson, Avishai Cohen, Joe Martin,...