Jim Rotondi

Performer

b. 1962. American trumpeter in the Hard Bop Revival tradition.

Jim Rotondi is a respected contemporary hard bop trumpeter with a solid small-group discography. Known for swinging, post-bop style in the tradition of Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard.

  • JIM ROTONDI AND DENA DEROSE WITH THEIR VIENNA

    JIM ROTONDI AND DENA DEROSE WITH THEIR VIENNA

    CELLAR LIVE Sep 2026
    1 disc
    CD
    $14.49
  • FINESSE

    FINESSE

    CELLAR LIVE May 2024
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    Vinyl
    $29.71
  • FINESSE
    CELLAR LIVE

    FINESSE

    CD · 1 disc

    $12.40
    Artist
    ROTONDI, JIM
    Released
    Feb 16, 2024
    Jim Rotondi - Finesse - Trumpeter Jim Rotondi has been a major figure in the world of jazz for over 30 years, both in New York and on the international scene. His sound, soul, and sense of swing have been in demand as leader and sideman all over the world. For his new album for Cellar Music, Rotondi has joined forces with arranger Jakob Helling and the Notes & Tones Orchestra to record some incredible versions of his own compositions with big band and strings.
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  • FINESSE

    FINESSE

    CELLAR LIVE Feb 2024
    1 disc
    CD
    $12.40
  • OVER HERE
    CRISS CROSS

    OVER HERE

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.21
    Artist
    ROTONDI, JIM
    Released
    Nov 03, 2023
    By titling his eighth Criss Cross album Over Here!, trumpeter Jim Rotondi picks up on the sentiments he signified with The Move, his seventh for the label. "It doesn't necessarily mean moving somewhere else, but rather returning home, playing tunes with a lot of straight-ahead swing and interesting chord sequences with guys I'm comfortable with, " Rotondi stated in the liner notes I wrote for that kinetic 2009 recital. The Album was recorded May 10, 2023 at the Artesuono Recording Studio in Udine (Italy). Recording engineer Mike Marciano did the editing, mixing and mastering at Systems Two in NY. Photography by Mauro Cionci
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  • OVER HERE

    OVER HERE

    CRISS CROSS Nov 2023
    1 disc
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    $20.21
  • Giordano: Fedora / Dessi, Galli, Carlo Felice Theatre Orchestra
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    Giordano: Fedora / Dessi, Galli, Carlo Felice Theatre Orchestra

    CD · 2 discs

    $24.99
    Composer
    GIORDANO, UMBERTO
    Artist
    Dessi, Armiliato, Antoniozzi, Kovalenko, Rotondi, Pierattelli, Fantoni, Roni, Ottino, Maietta, Mura
    Released
    Jan 19, 2018
    This new release is homage to a great Italian soprano, Daniela Dessì, who passed away last year, just one year after these performances at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. This is a superb interpretation of this signature role of her long artistic career. Daniela Dessì was considered one of the world’s leading sopranos and a reference point for the Verdi, Puccini and Verismo repertoire. Thanks to the beauty of her voice, a strong technique and an intense dramatic talent, she was able to sing from Monteverdi to Prokofiev, performing in more than seventy different operas. This versatility has significantly been underlined when, in 2011, she was awarded with the Prize Belcanto “Celletti”, recognized as an “absolute soprano”. In this production of Umberto Giordano’s Fedora, she is joined by an all-star cast, including Fabio Armiliato and Daria Kovalenko.
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  • Giordano: Fedora / Dessi, Galli, Carlo Felice Theatre Orchestra [Blu-ray]
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    Giordano: Fedora / Dessi, Galli, Carlo Felice Theatre Orchestra [Blu-ray]

    Blu-Ray · 1 disc

    $36.99
    Composer
    GIORDANO, UMBERTO
    Artist
    Dessi, Armiliato, Antoniozzi, Kovalenko, Rotondi, Pierattelli, Fantoni, Roni, Ottino, Maietta, Mura
    Released
    Jan 19, 2018

    This new release is homage to a great Italian soprano, Daniela Dessì, who passed away last year, just one year after these performances at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. This is a superb interpretation of this signature role of her long artistic career. Daniela Dessì was considered one of the world’s leading sopranos and a reference point for the Verdi, Puccini and Verismo repertoire. Thanks to the beauty of her voice, a strong technique and an intense dramatic talent, she was able to sing from Monteverdi to Prokofiev, performing in more than seventy different operas. This versatility has significantly been underlined when, in 2011, she was awarded with the Prize Belcanto “Celletti”, recognized as an “absolute soprano”. In this production of Umberto Giordano’s Fedora, she is joined by an all-star cast, including Fabio Armiliato and Daria Kovalenko.

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  • MOVE
    CRISS CROSS

    MOVE

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.21
    Artist
    ROTONDI, JIM
    Released
    Feb 16, 2010
    During his 13-year association with Criss Cross, which includes six prior leader dates and another five with the nonpareil hard bop collective One for All, trumpeter Jim Rotondi has consistently maintained high standards of excellence in his playing and writing. The Move is no exception - Rotondi's strong sextet, all long-time colleagues (Ralph Bowen, tenor sax; Mike DiRubbo, alto sax; David Hazeltine, piano; John Webber, bass; Joe Farnsworth, drums), play the stimulating charts with heat, creative spirit, and deep craft, each member stamping themselves as personal voices in the mainstream jazz timeline.
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  • MOVE
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    MOVE

    CRISS CROSS Feb 2010
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.21
  • IRON MAN
    CRISS CROSS

    IRON MAN

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.21
    Artist
    ROTONDI, JIM
    Released
    Mar 21, 2006
    On his sixth session as a leader for Criss Cross Jazz, One for All trumpeter Jim Rotondi pushes the hard bop envelope, broadening the music's horizons with a new quintet that utilizes veteran vibraphonist Steve Nelson in place of the usual piano. Criss Cross. 2006.
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  • IRON MAN

    IRON MAN

    CRISS CROSS Mar 2006
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    CD
    $20.21
  • EXCURSIONS
    CRISS CROSS

    EXCURSIONS

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    $20.21
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    ROTONDI, JIM
    Released
    Apr 18, 2000
    Surrounded by his colleagues from the notorious sextet collective One for All (Eric Alexander, Steve Davis, David Hazeltine & others), trumpeter/flugelhornist reaffirms his charter membership in the no-holds-barred society of improvisers.
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  • EXCURSIONS

    EXCURSIONS

    CRISS CROSS Apr 2000
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    CD
    $20.21
  • INTRODUCING JIM ROTONDI
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    INTRODUCING JIM ROTONDI

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.21
    Artist
    ROTONDI, JIM
    Released
    May 20, 1997
    New York-based trumpeter plays w. fire & authenticity; his tunes on this debut represent the essence of modern mainstream jazz, feat. Eric Alexander, Larry Goldings, Dwayne Burno, Billy Drummond. (Previously deleted 4/1/12. Original release date: 3/18/97)
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  • INTRODUCING JIM ROTONDI

    INTRODUCING JIM ROTONDI

    CRISS CROSS May 1997
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.21