Nick Rossi photographed by Joey Lusterman for Acoustic Guitar magazine

AUGUST 2025 performance Schedule

AUG 5, 12, 19 (Tue) - The Kansas City Sound of Bennie Moten, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Swing U, 4 p.m. Pacific (online weekly lecture + listening session)

Aug 16 (Sat) - with Heidi Evelyn, Spirit of ’45, History Park, San Jose, 3 p.m. (1940s small group swing)

Aug 23 (Sat) - Nick Rossi’s Jazzopaters play Duke Ellington for Dancers, the Dome, Oakland, 7 p.m. (9 piece Ellingtonia ensemble swing dance event)

Aug 24 (Sun) - Nick Rossi’s Jazzopaters play Duke Ellington, Mr. Tipple’s Jazz Club, San Francisco, 5 p.m. (9 piece Ellingtonia ensemble in concert)

Aug 26 (Tue) - Nick Rossi Swing Six, Lester Young Birthday Celebration at THE Woodchooper’s Ball, The VERDI CLUB, San Francisco, 9 p.m. (1930s-1940s swing jazz for dancers)

Aug 30 (Sat) - Nick Rossi Trio, The Tasting House, Los Gatos, 6 p.m. (1940s style classic jazz trio)

SEP 6 (SAT) - NICK ROSSI & HIS SWING FOUR, ***3 Year Anniversary*** MONTHLY RESIDENCY, TOP OF THE MARK, MARK HOPKINS HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, 8-11 PM (1930S-1940S STYLE SMALL GROUP SWING)

Join Nick this summer online at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Swing U, for a four week lecture series about the father of Kansas City Jazz, Bennie Moten!

Nick Rossi Swing Six live on Treasure Island, San Francisco, February 2023

Nick Rossi Swing Six live at the USS Hornet’s South Seas Swing Party in Alameda presented by A-Town Agency, August 2023

Nick Rossi and his Swing Four, COVID streamcast performance, Mr. Tipple’s Jazz Club, December 2020

Nick Rossi and his Swing Six all star edition at Club Deluxe (RIP), San Francisco, 2018

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Be a ‘39er! Join me, my Swing Six, dance instructor Nathan Dias, and surprise special guests on Saturday, February 17th for a special swing dance event hosted by the Treasure Island Museum commemorating the 85th anniversary of the opening of th
Catch me and my Swing Four the first Saturday of each and every month including *this* Saturday February 3rd at the @topofthemarksf high atop Nob Hill, from 6:30 until 10 PM | 1930s-1940s Swing Era Jazz for your drinking and dancing pleasure #jazz #s
Tonight I begin my second year as the musical director of the annual @noir.city flagship film festival here in the San Francisco Bay Area at the @grandlaketheater Oakland’s historic movie palace. This year Darkness Knows No Borders with 10 days
Last night at the Castro | photo by @billselby1
1930s linen postcard illustration. Original caption: A California Highway - On U.S. Highway 101, near Torrey Pines, Los Angeles to San Diego.
Christmas Eve, 2023 #vintagesanfrancisco #vintagenorthbeach #tonyniks #1933 #1949 #1951
My sincere thanks to pal @eddie_muller8591 for making a whole lot of folks very happy up in Vallejo at the @empresstheatre this past Friday night. A sold out house, preceded by a sold out book signing event. Thanks to everyone at the theater, Renay
This Friday night, December 15th, I will be the emcee at Vallejo Noir presented by the @empresstheatre with special guest @eddie_muller8591 in conversation and introducing “Pitfall” (Regal Films, 1948) on the big screen. It all begins in
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Today is the Barney Kessel Centennial: 100 years of the great Muskogee, Oklahoma born guitar player. From his early years as a true acolyte of Charles Christian, through his immersion in the BeBop vocabulary, and into his development as a master of h
Until next year… #felthatday #1920s #1930s #jcpenny #truevintage #vintagemenswear
Duke Ellington by Carlo Borger, 1935
The Thinker by Hiromu Kira, circa 1930, photo of man seated on the stepped concrete side of the Mulholland Dam, Los Angeles, Calif.
Catch me and my Swing Four the first Saturday of each and every month including *this* Saturday September 2nd at the @topofthemarksf high atop Nob Hill, from 6:30 until 10 PM | 1930s-1940s Swing Era Jazz for your drinking and dancing pleasure #jazz #
Exterior black glazed ceramic tile detail, the Tulsa Club, Tulsa, Oklahoma, designed by Bruce Goff and constructed in 1927 by the architectural firm Rush, Endacott, and Rush #artdeco #artdecopottery #1920s #vintagetulsa #artdecotulsa #tilemakestheroo
Selection from Paul Colin’s 1927-1929 set of lithographs titled Le Tumulte Noir | these were originally hand colored stencils known as pochoir | the series was inspired by the 1925 show of Harlem entertainers in Paris le Revue Nègre star
I am very pleased to be featuring my special guest the dynamic David Hermlin all the way from Berlin, Germany, as part the Southern California debut of my Swing Six | See you at Irvine’s @atomicballroom on Friday, August 4th #swing
My deepest thanks to everyone who came out to the spectacular @topofthemarksf Top over the weekend to help me and my Swing Four celebrate one year of performances high atop Nob Hill. Saturday night's audience was absolutely wonderful! A very special
Thanks to @mementomoda_ for the glamour shot taken at this year’s Art Deco Preservation Ball presented by the @artdecoca at the @oakparamount | early 1930s evening attire from @relicvintage | 1927 Epiphone Recording Model A banjo and 1934 Epiph