Roxy Coss

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Roxy Coss (* around 1985 in Seattle ) is an American jazz musician ( saxophone , flute , bass clarinet , composition ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Born in Seattle, Coss graduated Magna cum laude from William Paterson University in 2008 with a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies / Performance; She took lessons from Rich Perry , Gary Smulyan , Rich DeRosa and Mulgrew Miller . In 2009 she self-published her self-titled debut album, on which u. a. Justin Kauflin participated. In 2011 she was selected to both the Jazz Ahead Residency Workshop of Betty Carter in the Kennedy Center and at the jazz program of the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival participate, where she studied with Rufus Reid , Curtis Fuller , Nathan Davis and David Baker had lessons. She made numerous appearances in the USA, Canada and Europe. The albums Restless Idealism ( Origin Records , 2016) and Chasing the Unicorn (2017, with Alex Wintz , Glenn Zaleski , Rick Rosato , Jimmy Macbride ) were released under his own name , followed by The Future Is Female (PosiTone, 2017), with Lucas Pino , Miki Yamankaka , Alex Wintz, Rick Rosato and Jimmy Macbride.

With her Roxy Coss Quintet , she performed in numerous well-known New York venues such as the Jazz Standard , Smalls , Zinc Bar , Smoke , 55 Bar and Club Bonafide. The quintet also performed at the Newport Jazz Festival .

As accompanists, Coss a. a. with the Claudio Roditi Big Band, the Mingus Big Band and from 2009 with the Diva Jazz Orchestra , with which recordings were also made. From 2012 to 2014 she was part of Jeremy Pelt's band ( Water and Earth ) and toured with the formation Macktet around Pelt and Willie Jones III . As a theater musician, she appeared in the off-Broadway play Maurice Hines is Tappin 'Thru Life . She has also performed with musicians such as Wynton Marsalis , Joshua Redman , Joe Lovano , Mulgrew Miller , Harry Allen , Steve Wilson , Gary Smulyan , Buster Williams , Harold Mabern , Joe Farnsworth , Jerry Vivino and Eric Marienthal . In the field of jazz, according to Tom Lord , Coss was involved in ten recording sessions between 2009 and 2017.

Awards

In 2016, Coss received the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award; She was placed on the rising star list for soprano saxophone three times in a row in the polls for the down beat critics' poll .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Rauch: Earshot Jazz Features Roxy Coss! In: Earshot Jazz. Lydia Liebman Promotions, August 2019 (English).;
  2. ↑ Roxy Coss, Saxophne. Smalls, August 1, 2019, accessed August 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 1, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Coss, Roxy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (saxophone, flute, bass clarinet, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle