Mercedes Rossy
Mercedes Rossy (* 1961 in Barcelona ; † 1995 there ) was a Spanish jazz musician (piano, composition)
Live and act
Rossy comes from a family of musicians; the jazz musicians Mario and Jorge Rossy are their younger brothers. She learned classical piano from childhood. From 1985 to 1989 she studied in Munich, where she recorded the album Rondo with Harald Rüschenbaum . In 1992 she graduated from the Berklee School of Music in Boston. She toured Europe with saxophonists Mark Turner and Steve Wilson , Seamus Blake and Antonio Hart , trombonist Hal Crook and drummer Leon Parker, and performed regularly in New York. Rossy died of cancer in Barcelona, Spain. With the album The Music of Mercedes Rossy , which was released in 1998 by Fresh Sound New Talent and contains nine of her compositions, Turner and her brothers did memory work. George Colligan recorded their The Newcomer and Some Like to Love More Than One on their own albums.
Web links
- Short biography
- Mercedes Rossy at Discogs (English)
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| SURNAME | Rossy, Mercedes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish jazz musician (piano, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1995 |
| Place of death | Barcelona |