Roxy Coss Quintet: "Disparate Parts" Album Release

Friday, March 25

8:35PM

Personnel:
Roxy Coss - Saxophone
Alex Wintz - Guitar
Miki Yamanaka - Piano
Rick Rosato - Bass
Jimmy Macbride - Drums

Musician, Composer and Activist Roxy Coss has performed around the world as a bandleader and a side musician with jazz legends such as Clark Terry, Billy Kaye, Maurice Hines, Rufus Reid, Louis Hayes, Gene Perla, Claudio Roditi, Willie Jones III, Jeremy Pelt, Darcy James Argue, and is a member of the DIVA Jazz Orchestra. A recipient of an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, the Downbeat Critics’ Poll listed Coss as a "Rising Star" on Soprano Saxophone the past seven years, called her "An exceptional young talent”, and Jazziz Magazine listed her an “Artist to Watch in 2019”. She is also the recipient of the Hothouse Magazine & Jazzmobile “Tenor Saxophone” Award in 2019. The Roxy Coss Quintet, featuring some of the world’s finest young musicians, is the first-ever recipient of the Emerging Artist Project, a four-year grant from the Local 802 Musicians Union. Catch their album release show celebrating Roxy’s sixth recording as a leader, “Disparate Parts” (Outside in Music), releasing March 25, 2022. The new recording encompasses original music by Roxy and several other members in the band, exploring differing identities, soundscapes, textures, and grooves.