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Throughout her musical career, Roxy Coss has traveled to
perform around the world, from Toronto to Paris, Orlando
to The Hague, Vienne, Montreux, and NYC’s Lincoln
Center. Originally from Seattle, WA, Roxy attended
Garfield High School, where she held the first tenor
chair in the internationally acclaimed 'A Jazz Band',
and received numerous soloist awards around the world.
Roxy moved to the east coast after receiving a
Presidential Scholarship to attend William Paterson
University in NJ, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude
with a Bachelor’s of Music Degree in Jazz Studies-
Performance.
Now living in Manhattan, Roxy's arsenal of instruments
has come to include tenor sax, alto sax, soprano sax,
flute, clarinet, and piano. In addition to performing as
an in-demand multi-instrumentalist, she is a prolific
composer and successful band leader in New York City.
Roxy has appeared on the Today Show Live, and at the JVC
Jazz Festival in New York. Locally she has performed in
such New York venues as the Blue Note and Sweet Rhythm,
Jimmy’s Restaurant, the C-Note, and the 5C Café. She
also frequents Cecil's Jazz Club in West Orange, NJ. In
her hometown Seattle, she has performed at highly
established clubs like Jazz Alley, the Triple Door,
Tula’s, and Egan’s Ballard Jam House.
Some of the great jazz musicians Roxy has performed with
include Clark Terry and Grassella Oliphant, and she also
performed as part of the William Paterson Big Band with
Slide Hampton, Joe Lovano, and Dave Valentin. In
addition, as part of the Garfield Band, Roxy appeared
with Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman and Bill Watrous.
Roxy has guest appeared with The Seattle Women’s Jazz
Orchestra, and opened for the Dave Leibman Big Band and
Rufus Reid’s Quintet plus Four as part of the esteemed
Jazz Room Series.
perform around the world, from Toronto to Paris, Orlando
to The Hague, Vienne, Montreux, and NYC’s Lincoln
Center. Originally from Seattle, WA, Roxy attended
Garfield High School, where she held the first tenor
chair in the internationally acclaimed 'A Jazz Band',
and received numerous soloist awards around the world.
Roxy moved to the east coast after receiving a
Presidential Scholarship to attend William Paterson
University in NJ, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude
with a Bachelor’s of Music Degree in Jazz Studies-
Performance.
Now living in Manhattan, Roxy's arsenal of instruments
has come to include tenor sax, alto sax, soprano sax,
flute, clarinet, and piano. In addition to performing as
an in-demand multi-instrumentalist, she is a prolific
composer and successful band leader in New York City.
Roxy has appeared on the Today Show Live, and at the JVC
Jazz Festival in New York. Locally she has performed in
such New York venues as the Blue Note and Sweet Rhythm,
Jimmy’s Restaurant, the C-Note, and the 5C Café. She
also frequents Cecil's Jazz Club in West Orange, NJ. In
her hometown Seattle, she has performed at highly
established clubs like Jazz Alley, the Triple Door,
Tula’s, and Egan’s Ballard Jam House.
Some of the great jazz musicians Roxy has performed with
include Clark Terry and Grassella Oliphant, and she also
performed as part of the William Paterson Big Band with
Slide Hampton, Joe Lovano, and Dave Valentin. In
addition, as part of the Garfield Band, Roxy appeared
with Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman and Bill Watrous.
Roxy has guest appeared with The Seattle Women’s Jazz
Orchestra, and opened for the Dave Leibman Big Band and
Rufus Reid’s Quintet plus Four as part of the esteemed
Jazz Room Series.
In addition to performing, Roxy has taught private
music lessons for over eight years. She has also run
saxophone sectionals, small ensembles, and big bands.
In July 2008 she was a teacher at the 15th annual
William Paterson University Summer Jazz Camp. She is
the founder and director of an annual Summer
Improvisation Workshop at Washington Middle School,
which now includes three levels of classes, including
musicians of all instruments. She was also the special
guest artist-in-residence at the Rainier Valley Youth
Theater Camp in summer 2007 in Seattle, where she
taught African-American Music and its history, and
acted as the musical director of the Middle School
Production of "A Midsummer Night's Daydream".
“My goal is to explore new musical genres,
breaking boundaries and preconceptions of present
day music. I want to make music you can feel in
your bones, full of honest passion, awareness,
humor, spirituality, growth, pain, joy, and love.”
breaking boundaries and preconceptions of present
day music. I want to make music you can feel in
your bones, full of honest passion, awareness,
humor, spirituality, growth, pain, joy, and love.”
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