Real name: Richard Jerome DeRosa

b. Huntington, NY, 25 November 1955

Composer, arranger, drummer, university professor. His father is Clem De Rosa, brother Gary DeRosa.

He has toured and/or recorded with Gerry Mulligan Bob Brookmeyer Marian McPartland Peter Nero, Garry Dial, Dick Oatts, Jerry Dodgion, Jackie & Roy, Susannah McCorkle, Randy Sandke, Chris Potter, Conrad Herwig, Greg Gisbert, Alexander Gafa, Bucky Pizzarelli, Ken Peplowski, Howard Alden, Steve LaSpina, Christopher Gines, John Gabriel, Eric Comstock, Harry Sheppard, Chuck Wayne, Jay Leonhart, Mary Wooten, Andy Stein, and the Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra.