Jim Rotondi

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Jim Rotondi (* 28. August 1962 in Butte , Montana ) is an American jazz - trumpet , flugelhorn player , band leader and teacher.

Life

Rotondi first took piano lessons from his mother and switched to the trumpet as the main instrument at the age of twelve. After graduating from high school, he attended North Texas State University's degree program . In 1984 he won first place in the International Trumpet Guild's Jazz Trumpet Competition . He graduated from North Texas State University in 1984 and moved to New York City in 1987 , where he worked with artists such as Ray Charles , Lionel Hampton , the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, Lou Donaldson , Curtis Fuller and George Coleman ( Danger High Voltage ) .

At the end of the 1990s he began to work with his own formations; In 1996 the album Introducing Jim Rotondi was released on the Criss Cross label . a. Eric Alexander , Billy Drummond, and Larry Goldings contributed. On his other albums on Criss Cross and the Sharp Nine label, he played a. a. with Joe Locke , Harold Mabern , Steve Davis , Mulgrew Miller , David Hazeltine , Jesse Davis , Ray Drummond and Chris Potter . Rotondi has also worked on recordings for Eric Alexander, Paul Bollenback , Steve Davis, David Hazeltine, Mike LeDonne , Cecil Payne and the formation One for All . In 2005 he worked on his album Iron Man with a piano-less quintet, consisting of tenor saxophonist Jimmy Greene , vibraphonist Steve Nelson , bassist Doug Weiss and drummer Bill Stewart .

Discographic notes

  • Jim's Bop (Criss Cross, 1997) with Harold Mabern, Eric Alexander, John Webber , Joe Farnsworth
  • Destination Up! (Sharp Nine, 2001) with Joe Locke, Steve Davis, Mulgrew Miller
  • The Pleasure Dome (Sharp Nine, 2003)
  • New Vistas (Criss Cross, 2003) with Chris Potter, Sam Yahel , Peter Bernstein , Bill Stewart
  • Live at Smalls (SmallsLive, 2010)
  • 1000 Rainbows ( Posi-Tone Records , 2011) with Joe Locke, Danny Grissett, Barak Mori, Bill Stewart

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SURNAME Rotondi, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Butte (montana)