Swingin' Dinner Dance Party w/ Nick Rossi Swing Six

For more than 100 years the Verdi Club Dinner Dance has endured as a classic San Francisco experience like no other. One of the few multi-generational affairs to be found throughout the city, the Verdi Club Dinner Dance keeps it simple with a focus on great food, live music, and dancing the night away.

Nick Rossi

Nick Rossi is known both locally and internationally as a premiere swing dance bandleader, having performed throughout the United States and Europe with his Swing Four/Six, a hard-driving combo imbued with the spirit of the classic Old Testament Count Basie combos. In the autumn of 2023 he debuted his Jazzopaters, one of the few ensembles anywhere dedicated to the “small group” repertoire of the maestro Duke Ellington, spotlighting a diverse group of talented musicians.

As a musician who believes strongly in actively engaging with the history of the music, Nick has been involved in numerous projects over the years which have tapped into his talents as a writer, historian, and researcher. He was written for magazines such as Acoustic Guitar and The Fretboard Journal as well as record labels such as Resonance, Ace, and RPM. More recently, Nick has participated in a comprehensive retrospective of Benny Goodman’s earliest big band legacy, which includes a mini-survey of jazz guitar through the 1930s. In more recent years, he has gained a great degree of notoriety as an educator, scholar, and researcher, more details of which may be found here.

Nick is also an accomplished painter; an enthusiastic, seasoned traveller; and an ardent admirer of all matters sartorial; the sum total of which reflects his long-standing interests in art, culture, and style.

Buffet Menu

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Schedule

5:30 Doors

6:45 Dinner

7:30 Dance

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