Marcus Rojas
Marcus Rojas (* 23. February 1963 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American jazz - tuba player and music teacher .
Live and act
Marcus Rojas graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York. He then earned a bachelor's degree from the New England Conservatory of Music . He was a member of Henry Threadgill's ensembles in the late 1980s and was involved in a number of recordings including Spirit of Nuff ... Nuff (1990). In the mid-90s he was a member of the New York avant-garde trio with Spanish Fly with trumpeter Steven Bernstein and guitarist David Tronzo . In 1994 the two albums Fly by Night ( Accurate Records ) and Rags to Britches were created on Knitting Factory Records .
In the course of his career, Rojas has also made recordings with musicians such as Michael Blake , Jim Hall ( Textures , 1996), Howard Johnson's Gravity , Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble , in the Phantom Orchestra of Anne LeBaron , George Schuller's Orange Then Blue , with Marc Ribot , Wadada Leo Smith , John Zorn , Sly & Robbie and Foetus with.
In the early 2000s he led the formation Big Happy (with Michael Blake, Charlie Burnham, Dave Phelps, Calvin Weston ). He also played in the big band projects of Marty Ehrlich ( The Long View , 2002) and Wayne Shorter ( Alegria , 2002), worked with Dave Douglas , with whom he appeared as a duo and on his album Mountain Passages (2004), as well as with Oren Marshall in the Low Frequency Tuba Project and with Gina Leishman in Kamikaze Ground Crew Covers ; in the 2000s in the Shaat'nez band of Ori Kaplan . In 2011 he worked on Ryan Truesdells Centennial - Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans .
He teaches at New York University , the State University of New York at Purchase , Brooklyn College and the Manhattan School of Music .
Discographic notes
- Tattoos and Mushrooms (2009), with Steven Bernstein, Marcus Rojas, Kresten Osgood
- Jason Robinson , JD Parran , Marty Ehrlich , Marcus Rojas, Bill Lowe , Liberty Ellman , Drew Gress , George Schuller , Ches Smith : Tiresian Symmetry ( Cuneiform Records , 2012)
Web links
- Web presence
- Marcus Rojas at Allmusic (English)
- Marcus Rojas at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Discographic information in Cook & Morton, Penguin Guide to Jazz, 1993-2006 and Bielefelder Katalog 2001.
- ↑ Note at all About Jazz ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rojas, Marcus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz tuba player and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York City |