The Rossonian hotel is an abandoned but once legendary Jazz club in the center of Downtown Denver’s Five Points district. Rossonian the band, birthed just blocks from the venerable old lounge in the historic neighborhood, does not play jazz.

In "On The Road", Jack Kerouac wrote about the ‘lilac evening’ as it began to fall upon the Five Points. He must have experienced the art deco sign of the Rossonian flickering on in the twilight, signaling the approaching night and all the ‘…joy, kicks, darkness, music…’ that were on the way. Though the weathered but still handsome sign hasn’t been lit in over half a century, the band with its namesake delivers the same blissful reminder of pleasure and darkness to come. Rossonian’s music is the thrill of anticipation as you prepare yourself for the ecstasy of heading out into the night. It’s the violet dusk that Kerouac was describing. It’s the glow that makes you wonder where you’re going while making you comfortable exactly where you are.