Jay Rosen (musician)

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Jay Rosen (* 20th November 1961 in Philadelphia ) is an American jazz - drummer of the avant-garde jazz and new improvised music .

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Jay Rosen grew up in Long Island , NY, where his family moved in 1964. At the age of eight he got guitar lessons; then he learned to play the piano. Under the impression of a concert visit by Tony Williams , who appeared with Sonny Rollins in Carnegie Hall in 1971 , he switched to drums. Early influences were the music of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane that eventually led him to study music. Jay Rosen studied a. a. with Barry Altschul , Kenwood Dennard , Marvin "Smitty" Smith and Joe Morello . Since 1990 he has been active as a professional drummer on the New York jazz scene.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, Rosen has mainly worked in the field of creative jazz and improvised music, who record for the Cadence Jazz Records and CIMP labels , among others. a. with Herb Robertson , Avram Fefer , Chris Kelsey , Michael Bisio , Vinny Golia , Steve Swell , Mark Whitecage , Ivo Perelman , Dominic Duval , Joe McPhee , Joseph Scianni and John Gunther . Since the late 1990s, Rosen has played in Trio X with Joe McPhee and Dominic Duval, on whose albums The Sugar Hill Suite and Journey he participated, as well as the Gaucci Trio with Michael Bisio and Stephen Gaucci ; In 2001 he recorded the album Drums'n'Bugles with Herb Robertson and Paul Smoker ; In 2005 he made his solo album Songs for Samuel , a homage to his late father. In 2009 he recorded in the David Arner Trio Out / In the Open ( Not Two Records ). Rosen continued to work with Avram Fefer, Stephen Gauci, Jimmy Halperin , Dominic Duval, and Brian Willson throughout the 2010s .

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SURNAME Roses, jay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia