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Roxy Coss at Jazz Standard
Courtesy of Michael Ricci | Posted on August 18, 2016
Where
Jazz Standard
116 East 27th Street
New York, NY
Map
212-576-2232
When
Wed, September 14, 2016
7:30 pm
At Door
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Musicians
Roxy Coss
saxophone, tenorJeremy Pelt
trumpetAlex Wintz
guitarChris Pattishall
pianoRick Rosato
bass, acousticJimmy Macbride
drumsAbout
Winner of a 2016 ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award and a “Rising Star” in three consecutive Down Beat critics’ polls, saxophonist Roxy Coss has used her academic and sideman credentials as a springboard to an auspicious career as a bandleader, composer, and recording artist. Fresh from performing with her group at the prestigious 2016 Newport Jazz Festival, Roxy has also performed at clubs and theaters across the U.S., – as a leader, with the Mingus Big Band, and with the Diva Jazz Orchestra, and in the groups of Jeremy Pelt, who joins her onstage for this engagement. “As a player, on tenor and soprano saxophones, she possesses a poise and maturity beyond her years,” wrote Josef Woodward in his Down Beat review of her latest album Restless Idealism, which she releases tonight at Jazz Standard...