Joe Rosenberg
Joe Rosenberg (* 25. October 1955 ) is an American jazz - soprano saxophonist and composer .
Rosenberg is from Boston and from 1995 studied with Joe Viola , Buddy Collette and John Carter on a National Endowment for the Arts scholarship . During this time he was a member of the Los Angeles Jazz Workshop Big Band and the Inside Out quartet . He then became known through appearances with musicians such as Dewey Redman , Gary Foster , Buddy Collette, Junko Inishi , Misha Mengelberg , Jean-Luc Guionnet and Edward Perraud . In the 1990s he co-founded the West Coast Formation Affinity , who performed mainly in the San Francisco Bay Area (including in Yoshi’s ) and dedicated themselves to the work of jazz avant-garde such as Eric Dolphy or Ornette Coleman . With Affinity Rosenberg recorded several albums with guest musicians such as Buddy Collette or Dewey Redman on Music & Arts .
From 1995 he lived in Hong Kong , where he worked with his own formation, with Nelson Hui and the dancer / choreographer Mui Cheuk Yin. In 2005 he played the album Quicksand with Masako Hamamura, Mark Helias and Tom Rainey , which was released on Black Saint .
Discographic notes
- Affinity: Plays Modern Jazz Classics (Music & Arts, 1993)
- Affinity: A Tribute to Eric Dolphy (Music & Arts, 1995) with Buddy Collette
- Affinity: This Is Our Lunch (Music & Arts, 1995)
- Affinity: A Tribute to Ornette Coleman (Music & Arts, 1995) with Dewey Redman
- The Long & Short of It (Black Saint, 2004)
- Danse de La Fureur (Black Saint, 2004)
- Quicksand (Black Saint, 2007)
- Tomorrow Never Knows (Quark, 2017)
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| SURNAME | Rosenberg, Joe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosenberg, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1955 |