LA based pianist Eve Elliot and SF based guitarist Nick Rossi join forces for a fantastic night of ragtime, jazz and swing!
Eve Elliot is an active solo and ensemble pianist in the Los Angeles early jazz and swing scene. As a solo artist she has appeared at venues throughout the city, including El Segundo's Old Town Music Hall, and across the country (West Coast Ragtime, Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival). She has performed with Alex Mendham and His Orchestra, Sergio Vellatti Big Band, Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys, Art Deco Jazz Orchestra, Holy Crow Jazz Band, Les Bons Garçons Swing Band, and many others.
A lifelong West Coast Californian, Nick Rossi was born in San Diego, raised in Los Angeles, and has spent the past 35 years in San Francisco. After a move to the Bay Area, Nick immersed himself in the local R&B scene and rose to prominence as a member of The Loved Ones and Ron Silva & The Monarchs. He eventually stepped out to front his own group, the Nick Rossi Set, to local, national, and international acclaim, gradually embracing more and more of a jazz repertoire.
In 2007, Rossi refocused his attention on jazz guitar and dedicated himself to the history and development of the instrument from the 1920s through the 1960s. He studied with Calvin Keys (himself once a student of Irving Ashby) and performed in a variety of jazz-based Bay Area ensembles. For more than a decade now, he has led a number of his own combos, specializing in classic jazz inspired by his heroes. He also fosters an interest in Italian-American string players, modern classical, Western, and Hawaiian music from the first half of the 20th Century.
He is known both locally and internationally as a premiere swing dance bandleader, having performed throughout the United States and Europe with his Swing Four/Six, a hard-driving combo imbued with the spirit of the classic Old Testament Count Basie combos. In the autumn of 2023 he debuted his Jazzopaters, one of the few ensembles anywhere dedicated to the “small group” repertoire of the maestro Duke Ellington, spotlighting a diverse group of talented musicians.