Mish Mosh by ZENO DE ROSSI SHTIK

“The Shtik project came out of my passion for Jazz and Jewish music, to which I have dedicated the best years of my life.
My deep passion for Jewish music and culture began almost thirty years ago. At a certain point I realized that many of my favourite artists were Jewish. The question I kept on asking myself was which is the distintive quality that links Woody Allen to Lou Reed, John Zorn to Leonard Nimoy, Isaac Singer to Tony Curtis or Bob Dylan to Stan Getz?
I found out that Jewish culture was the common ground of my literary and musical passions and so I couldn’t help but use this material because it is what I hold closet to my sensitivity as a musician.”
(Zeno De Rossi)

• Sheldon (Z. De Rossi) 3:34
Achille Succi clarinet, Paolo Botti banjo, Alfonso Santimone piano, Mauro Ottolini tuba, Danilo Gallo bass, Zeno De Rossi drums

• Unused Theme from C’era una volta in America (E.Morricone) 3:18
Achille Succi bass clarinet, Alfonso Santimone piano, Danilo Gallo bass, Zeno De Rossi drums

• Tradition (S. Harnick / J. Block) 6:19
Francesco Bigoni tenor sax, Nicola Fazzini alto sax, Piero Bittolo Bon alto sax, J Kyle Gregory trumpet, Enrico Terragnoli guitar, Pasquale Mirra vibes, Alfonso Santimone piano, Danilo Gallo bass, Zeno De Rossi drums

• Chavalah (S. Harnick / J. Block) 6:39
Achille Succi bass clarinet, Francesco Bigoni tenor sax, Nicola Fazzini alto sax, J Kyle Gregory trumpet, Alfonso Santimone piano, Stefano Senni bass, Zeno De Rossi drums

• Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (J. Jacobs / S. Secunda) 5:32
Francesco Bigoni tenor sax, Nicola Fazzini alto sax, J Kyle Gregory trumpet, Enrico Terragnoli guitar, Pasquale Mirra vibes, Alfonso Santimone piano, Danilo Gallo bass, Zeno De Rossi drums

• It Could Have Been Very Very Beautiful (J. Lurie) 8:08
Francesco Bigoni tenor sax, Enrico Terragnoli guitar, Alfonso Santimone piano, Joe Rehmer bass, Zeno De Rossi drums

• Perk Up (J. Rowles) 5:54
Nicola Fazzini alto sax, J Kyle Gregory trumpet, Alfonso Santimone piano, Alessandro “Asso” Stefana ring modulator, Stefano Senni bass, Zeno De Rossi drums

• My Yiddishe Momme (J. Yellen / B. Pollack) 4:04
Francesco Bigoni tenor sax, J Kyle Gregory trumpet, Enrico Terragnoli guitar, Pasquale Mirra vibes, Alfonso Santimone piano, Danilo Gallo bass, Zeno De Rossi drums

• Toni Samba (Z. De Rossi) 4:20
Francesco Bigoni clarinet, Achille Succi bass clarinet, Enrico Terragnoli acoustic guitar, Alfonso Santimone piano, Danilo Gallo bass, Zeno De Rossi drums, Nelide Bandello shaker

• Sabbath Prayer (S. Harnick / J. Block) 3:41
Francesco Bigoni tenor sax, Nicola Fazzini alto sax, J Kyle Gregory trumpet, Enrico Terragnoli guitar, Alfonso Santimone piano, Alessandro “Asso” Stefana pedal steel, Stefano Senni bass, Zeno De Rossi drums

• Suicide Cliff (R. Scott) 3:35
Francesco Bigoni tenor sax, Enrico Terragnoli guitar, Alfonso Santimone piano, Joe Rehmer bass, Zeno De Rossi drums

• Hava Nagila (Come let’s be Happy) (Traditional) 6:25
Francesco Bigoni tenor sax, Nicola Fazzini alto sax, J Kyle Gregory trumpet, Pasquale Mirra vibes, Alfonso Santimone piano, Danilo Gallo bass, Zeno De Rossi drums

• I’ll Always be Yours (Mir Zol Zain Far Dir) (J. Rumshinsky / M. Picon) 5:30
Alfonso Santimone piano, Danilo Gallo bass, Zeno De Rossi drums

• Zamar Nodad (Traditional) 4:42
Gerhard Gschlössl trombone, Francesco Bigoni tenor sax, Enrico Terragnoli acoustic guitar, Stefano Senni bass, Zeno De Rossi drums

• Lela’hel (J. Zorn) 6:20
Francesco Bigoni clarinet, Enrico Terragnoli podophono, Alfonso Santimone piano, Joe Rehmer bass, Zeno De Rossi drums

Tracks 2-3-4-5-8-10-12-13 from Zeno De Rossi Shtik “Me’or ‘Einayim” (El Gallo Rojo Records) recorded by Stefano Amerio at Artesuono Recording Studio, Cavalicco, Italy on December 2006 - c+p 2007

Tracks 1-7-14 from Zeno De Rossi Shtik “The Manne I Love!” (El Gallo Rojo Records) recorded by Alessandro “Asso” Stefana at Perpeetum Mobile, Nave, Italy on May and October 2009- c+p 2010

Tracks 9 from El Gallo Rojo “El Dia De Los Muertos” (El Gallo Rojo Records) recorded by Ivan Rossi at Sam World Studio, Lari, Italy on June 2012 - c+p 2013

Tracks 6-11-15 recorded live by Lucio Arrighi at Cinema Lux, Padova, Italy on April 2013 - (Previously unreleased)

Produced by Zeno De Rossi

Cover Photograph: Women boxing on a roof, 1938 (Rare Historical Photos, colorized version by TheMateo)

...the estimable Zeno De Rossi on drums, who moved from subtlest gradations of pulsation to kickass powerhouse tub-thumper in the blink of a millisecond (the snail crawls across the edge of the razor blade).
- Gary Lucas, NYC.