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Grammy-winning Musician, Composer, Educator and Activist Roxy Coss has become one of the most unique and innovative Saxophonists on the scene. She is the Founder and President of Women In Jazz Organization (WIJO), Co-Artistic Director of the Brubeck Jazz Summit, and Visiting Fellow for the Think Tank at Wesleyan University’s Bailey College of the Environment ‘24-’25. Starting in September ‘25, Roxy will be joining Stony Brook University as Director of Jazz Studies.
Musician & Composer
Roxy is the Winner of the 2022 Downbeat Critics’ Poll "Rising Star" category in Soprano Saxophone, an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, Jazziz Magazine listed her an “Artist to Watch," and she received the Hothouse Magazine & Jazzmobile “Tenor Saxophone” Award. Roxy has been a fixture on the New York scene for over fifteen years, and has performed around the world, headlining major festivals and venues. Roxy has six recordings out as a bandleader. Her latest, Disparate Parts, was released March 2022 on the Outside in Music label. As a side musician, she has performed with Clark Terry, Louis Hayes, Rufus Reid, Billy Kaye, Houston Person, Bill Charlap, Claudio Roditi, Jeremy Pelt, Willie Jones III, Geoffrey Keezer, Ken Peplowski, Mike Pope, Darcy James Argue's "Secret Society", the Mingus Big Band, Birdland Big Band, The Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra, The Diva Jazz Orchestra and Maurice Hines.
Educator
Roxy is currently Co-Artistic Director of the Brubeck Jazz Summit along with Saxophonist Lucas Pino. She is the Visiting Fellow for the Think Tank at Wesleyan University’s Bailey College of the Environment ‘24-’25. Starting in September 2025, Roxy will be joining Stony Brook University as Assistant Professor of Music in the role of Director of Jazz Studies. Roxy has previously served on the board of directors for the Jazz Education Network (JEN) (2018-2024), on jazz faculty as ensemble coach and saxophone studio professor at The Juilliard School (2018-2024), and served as Artist-in-Residence at Arizona State University's jazz department (2019-2023). She has over 20 years of experience with private instruction and has been a guest artist leading masterclasses, clinics, and workshops around the world.
Activist
Roxy is the Founder and President of Women In Jazz Organization, a collective of over 500 professional jazz musicians and composers who identify as women or gender non-binary. WIJO intends to help level the playing field, so that women and non-binary people have equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to the jazz community, leading to an improved and more rich, diverse, and successful art form. The organization is committed to honoring Black Americans as the creators of jazz. WIJO is largely a New York-based organization, with connections to other individuals and groups nationally and internationally.
Featured Products
Disparate Parts
2022 (Outside in Music)
Quintet
2019 (Outside in Music)
Restless Idealism
2015 (Origin Records)
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