May 31, 2022 1:00 PM
Roxy Coss Puts Jazz Life into Perspective
Roxy Coss first made her name as a force to be reckoned with on The Future Is Female (Posi-Tone, 2017), her provocative…
The Roxy Coss Quintet proves to be much more than the sum of its Disparate Parts, an aptly named new album on Outside in Music.
May 31, 2022 1:00 PM
Roxy Coss first made her name as a force to be reckoned with on The Future Is Female (Posi-Tone, 2017), her provocative…
Luke Stewart is set to stream a Thursday performance.
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As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah values cultural pluralism in American storytelling.
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Long before Nina Simone told a Carnegie Hall audience in 1964 that she meant every word of “Mississippi Goddam,”…
Released in conjunction with a companion video series, Roxy Coss’ Quintet draws from her entire catalog and ranks as the the follow-up to The Future Is Female, the bandleader’s provocative response to the 2016 elections.
Sep 4, 2019 9:58 AM
Though she’s only 33, saxophonist Roxy Coss already has made her mark as a bandleader, while becoming a torchbearer…
Roxy Coss is set to issue Quintet on Aug. 23.
Aug 5, 2019 4:19 PM
Saxophonist and bandleader Roxy Coss has released a batch of thoughtful recordings on the Origin and Posi-Tone…
On June 29, the Impulse! label issued previously unreleased studio recordings by John Coltrane (left), Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner under the title Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album.
Jan 4, 2019 12:27 PM
During 2018, DownBeat published hundreds of articles and album reviews. What’s below, though, are some features and…
Ambrose Akinmusire and Kris Davis perform in New York at Vision Festival, which ran May 23–28. Akinmusire’s Origami Harvest earned a 5-star rating in DownBeat during 2018.
Sep 26, 2019 4:45 PM
The list below is a round-up of the 5-star, 4.5-star and 4-star reviews that ran in print editions of DownBeat during…
Roxy Coss’ new album, The Future Is Female, was inspired by the 2016 presidential elections.
Jul 26, 2019 11:55 AM
Musician, composer, bandleader and educator Roxy Coss has been playing saxophone since she discovered the instrument in…
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