Sam Ross is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator from Long Beach, California who has opened for such artists as Marcus Miller and The Funky Knuckles.

He has performed and/or recorded with/for Robert Sput Seawright (credits include Snarky Puppy, Ghost Note), Albert Alva (Louis Bellson, Rosemary Clooney), Paul Kreibich (Gene Harris, Ray Charles), and more.

Live at the Mira Room, Vol II is an EP live set of six of Ross’ original jazz/jazz-adjacent compositions recorded shortly before the pandemic. You’ll hear from the likes of himself on piano and rhodes, Simba Distis on upright and electric bass, and Dr Mimmi Mured on drums.

These cats are like extensions of him considering how well they play and understand his music for he never has to tell them what to do because they already know what he wants.

1. Bryan’s Room - Live (3:33)
2. Beauty Has No Ceiling (6:40)
3. City Stroll (6:18)
4. Hopeful Future (3:59)
5. Bear (4:03)
6. Music Is King (4:30)

This wonderfully succulent live EP opens on the rhythmically explorative Bryan’s Room and then we get the ornately shimmering Beauty Has No Ceiling, which is itself backed seamlessly by the dutifully funky, at times low slung blues of City Stroll, the furtively expedient Hopeful Future, the recording rounding out on the luscious Bear, coming to a close on the drum-led, fervently-imbibed foot tapper Music Is King.

Musicians:
Sam Ross - piano and rhodes
Simba Distis - upright and electric bass
Dr Mimmi Mured - drums

www.samdylanross.com