Jeremy Rose

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Sydney saxophonist/composer Jeremy Rose is interested in expanding dialogues between music disciplines, styles and cultures. He has released over a dozen albums of original music with his various collaborative and solo projects including The Vampires, The Strides, Jeremy Rose Quartet, Compass Saxophone Quartet and the Earshift Orchestra. Jeremy has performed at festivals, venues and concert halls throughout Australia, Europe and the UK, and has recently collaborated with guitarists Lionel Loueke and Kurt Rosenwinkel. The media has reported that Rose is ‘a bold, emerging Aussie voice’ (Limelight), that ‘his playing shows subtle glimpses of a mature master’ (The Australian), and that his ‘compositions are ruthlessly crafted affairs, with sufficient variety to bring out different aspects of everyone’s playing” (SMH). Jeremy’s numerous accolades include the 2015 APRA Professional Development Award for Jazz, two Bell Awards, a two-time Freedman Jazz Fellowship Finalist, an ARIA nomination and an Australian Music Prize short-listing. In 2016 Jeremy curated the inaugural APRA Song Hub for Jazz in Berlin with US guitar luminary Kurt Rosenwinkel, and was guest soloist-composer with both the Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s Modern Music Ensemble and Jazz Orchestra. In 2017 Jeremy was selected for the prestigious Art OMI Residency in New York.

Jeremy Rose & Earshift Orchestra: Discordia

Read "Discordia" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
January 8, 2025

Il bandleader australiano Jeremy Rose è un compositore attento alla realtà sociale contemporanea e intende esprimere in musica le sue critiche. Il precedente Disruption! The Voice of Drums nasceva dalla riflessione sulle turbolenze politiche e ambientali degli ultimi anni, portando solidarietà alle comunità insulari della Micronesia minacciate dai mutamenti climatici. In questo Discordia torna a guidare la sua Earshift Orchestra in un percorso ambizioso, con la pretesa di svelare i pericoli della disinformazione nell'era tecnologica attuale.

Album Review

The Vampires: Nightjar

Read "Nightjar" reviewed by Pat Youngspiel

by Pat Youngspiel
May 7, 2023

Australian saxophonist Jeremy Rose's admiration for minimalist trio The Necks is of great depth, to the extent that he published an essay on the group, entitled “Memory and Mindfulness in the Musical Rituals of the Necks," examining musical ritualistic practices “beyond the African American realm capable of scaffolding transcendent experience." And he is not the only Vampire to have previously collaborated with a Neck. Besides his own ethno-improvisational endeavor with the trio Vazesh, featuring The Necks bassist Lloyd Swanton and ...

Album Review

Jeremy Rose & the Earshift Orchestra: Disruption! The Voice of Drums

Read "Disruption! The Voice of Drums" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 20, 2023

Il sassofonista e compositore australiano Jeremy Rose documenta un ambizioso progetto in undici movimenti, che esalta la forza ancestrale delle percussioni etniche in un contesto orchestrale d'avanguardia. Presentato in anteprima al festival di Sydney del 2021, Disuption! The Voice of Drums, è un punto significativo della sua carriera e nasce dalla riflessione sulle turbolenze politico/ambientali degli ultimi anni, ampliandosi alla solidarietà con le comunità insulari della Micronesia che stanno affrontando gravi cambiamenti climatici. Accanto al leader, i ...

Radio & Podcasts

Jeremy Rose

by Lawrence Peryer
December 10, 2022

Saxophonist-composer Jeremy Rose leads a multi-dimensional career spanning a dozen releases of original music with collaborative and solo projects across the world, including The Earshift Orchestra, Jeremy Rose Quartet, and The Vampires. Rose is also the founder and director of the Earshift Music record label and festival and has performed at festivals, venues, and concert halls throughout Australia, Europe, and the UK, including recently touring Europe with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and collaborating with Benin-born Blue Note guitarist Lionel Loueke. He ...

Album Review

Jeremy Rose and the Earshift Orchestra: Disruption! The Voice of Drums

Read "Disruption! The Voice of Drums" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
November 19, 2022

Australian saxophonist and composer Jeremy Rose has created a unique body of work since he arrived on the music scene in 2008 with his collaborative quartet, The Vampires. He has forged an innovative path over the course of several local and international projects and multiple recordings. His twentieth, Disruption! The Voice of Drums is a poignant, moving, and soulful set of eleven interlinked movements originally commissioned for the 2021 Sydney festival. It features Rose with his octet, the Earshift Orchestra, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Jeremy Rose, Flash Pig, Radka Toneff, CKRAFT & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 13, 2022

Here we go again, finding a path of beauty through countless new and upcoming albums, and sharing the most memorable moments of this journey with you. As usual, we like the path less travelled, and so we hope that you'll enjoy the surprises that we find along the way.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Flash Pig “QG" Le plus longtemps possible (Asterie) 0:16 Host talks 5:30 Jeremy Rose ...

Interview

Jeremy Rose: on new music, collaborations and running a label

by Friedrich Kunzmann
January 6, 2019

On top of the highly praised 2017 release The Vampires meet Lionel Loueke (Earshift Music 2017) with his bandmates from The Vampires, Australian saxophonist Jeremy Rose unleashed his, somewhat overlooked, solo effort Within and Without (Earshift Music 2017) in June that same year. Featuring the unique language of American guitar innovator Kurt Rosenwinkel, the album demonstrates a very mature composer in Rose, who seems to constantly be in search of more depth in melody in correlation with unorthodox compositional structures. ...