Simon Rose

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Simon Rose (* around 1975 in London ) is a British jazz and improvisation musician ( baritone saxophone , alto saxophone ) and author.

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Rose first studied drama at Dartington College of Arts and completed his teacher training at the University of Exeter . After working as an acting teacher, he earned a Masters of Arts from Middlesex University in 2008 ; he then completed a doctoral degree (degree in 2013) at Glasgow Caledonian University . He taught drama and music in London, a. a. he also worked with special needs students.

As an improvisation musician he played since the mid-1990s, initially with Simon H. Fell and Mark Sanders and Steve Noble in the Badlands formation . In 2007 he performed with the London Improvisers Orchestra (including Lol Coxhill , Steve Beresford , Tony Marsh ). In the following years he also worked with Paul Stapleton , Willi Kellers Kjell Nordeson and Pascal Nichols . Under his own name he played the solo albums Procession (on the alto saxophone, FMR Records , 2007) and Schmetterling (on the baritone saxophone, released on Not Two Records ). In the field of jazz, Tom Lord recorded eleven recording sessions between 1995 and 2016. Rose, who lives in Berlin, is currently (2019) working in a duo with the pianist Stefan Schultze , with whom the album The Ten Thousand Things was created for the Red Toucan label , or with Nicola Hein .

Rose has written articles on improvisation for the anthologies Investigating Musical Performance (Ashgate, 2012), The Act of Musical Composition (Ashgate, 2014), and Organizing and Music (Cambridge, 2014). In 2017 he published the book The Lived Experience of Improvisation in Music, Learning and Life (Intellect Ltd Publication Chicago), based on both his experiences as a musician and teacher and an analysis of interviews with improvisers such as Roscoe Mitchell , Pauline Oliveros and George Lewis builds up.

Discographic notes

  • Simon Rose & Pascal Nichols: Ball Tole (Rayon Records, 2010)
  • Deniz Peters & Simon Rose: Edith's Problem ( Leo , 2017)
  • Simon Rose / Steve Noble: North Sea Night (Not Two Records, 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Improvisation, music and learning: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
  2. ↑ Database (Queen's University)
  3. ↑ http://heyevent.de/event/1564539663809715/simon-rose-jan-roder-willi-kellers
  4. ↑ http://www.kjellnordeson.com/Kjell_Nordeson/Past_Concerts_2009.html
  5. ↑ http://www.freejazzblog.org/2011/07/solo-sax.html
  6. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 20, 2015)
  7. ↑ http://www.stefanschultze.com/de/projects
personal data
SURNAME Rose, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH London