Ras Moshe

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Ras Moshe (born March 22, 1968 in Brooklyn ) is an American jazz musician ( saxophone , flute , clarinet ).

Live and act

Ras Moshe comes from a family of musicians; his grandfather Theodore "Ted" Barnett came to Brooklyn from Jamaica in the early 1930s and played saxophonist in the bands of Lucky Millinder , Don Redman , Earl Bostic , Jimmy Mundy and Ella Fitzgerald . As a teenager, Ras played in school bands; He has worked in the New York avant-garde scene since the early 2000s in various formations with Rashid Bakr , Matt Lavell, Todd Nicholson , Lou Grassi , Sabir Mateen , Dom Minasi , Herb Robertson , Blaise Siwula and Steve Swell . With his quartet he presented the album Transcendence under his own name . Moshe was the curator of the Music Now series for nine years . a. took place in the Brecht Forum and from which his band projects Ras' Music Now Ensembles / Units emerged .

Discographic notes

  • Jeffrey Shurdut, Marc Edwards, Ras Moshe, Blaise Siwula : The Emergency Broadcast System (Ayler Records, 2005, ed. 2008)
  • Live Spirits, Vol. 3 (2006)
  • Transcendence (2007)
  • Ras Moshe, Dave Ross, Federico Ughi : Red River Flows ( 577 Records , 2008)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 24, 2013)
  2. ↑ Portrait at All About Jazz
personal data
SURNAME Moshe, Ras
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn