The Rocco John Group

The Rocco John Group has played together since 1997. Their latest CD (all original tunes) "don't wait too long" won three "best of 2007" and they are recipients of two Chamber music America Jazz residency grants.Rocco cut his teeth playing first Alto in Sam Rivers ?Orchestral Explorations? at the Studio Rivbea during the ?loft years?. He's also played with Karl Berger, Barry Atschul, the Jazz Composers Orchestra, Larry Grenadier and Phil Grenadier.

His years of study with Lee Konitz, and training under Sam Rivers helped Rocco create a compositional and playing style that often reflects Lee's emphasis on tasteful restraint combined with Sam's sense of adventurous abstraction. Given his musical training, it is no surprise that Rocco's music blurs the lines between ?in? and ?out? playing; creating a link between the two for the audience to follow.