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Roxy Coss: Chasing the Unicorn

Read "Chasing the Unicorn" reviewed by Paul Rauch

by Paul Rauch

The title of the third, and latest release of New York based saxophonist Roxy Coss, Chasing the Unicorn (Posi-Tone, 2017), enables a vision that all artists embrace-that elusive and mythical state of total expression attained by only an elite few, that which not only presents beauty and passion to the universe, but is integrated into the ...

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Restless Idealism

By Roxy Coss

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Don't Cross The Coss; Waiting; Push; Perspective; Breaking Point; Happiness Is A Choice; Tricky; The Story Of Fiona; Almost My Own; Recurring Dream.

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The DIVA Jazz Orchestra: Special Kay!

Read "Special Kay!" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

WOW! No, it is definitely not advisable to open a review with an unequivocal superlative (for one thing, it sort of gives the game away, doesn't it?). But on Special Kay!, its ninth impressive album in twenty-four years, DIVA--the gold standard among all-female big bands since its inception--really gives a commentator no reasonable ...

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Roxy Coss: Restless Idealism

Read "Restless Idealism" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Roxy Coss was inspired to name the second album as leader of her own group Restless Idealism after reading a passage by Hunter S. Thompson in The Rum Diary, in which he weighs the tension between “a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other." While Coss, as a working ...

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Roxy Coss: Restless Idealism

Read "Restless Idealism" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Upcoming saxophonist Roxy Coss opens her splendid Origin Records debut, Restless Idealism with a traditional approach on her original tune, “Don't Cross the Coss." It's a happy and assertive sound, and when she takes her first solo, her robust tone brings Coleman Hawkins to mind. Coss and her band, churning along on a well-lubricated drive train ...

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Black Butterfly

By Roxy Coss

Label: Hiptonic Records
Released: 2015

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A Swingin' Life

By Roxy Coss

Label: Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Released: 2014

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Face Forward, Jeremy

By Roxy Coss

Label: High Notes
Released: 2014

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Diva: A Swingin' Life

Read "A Swingin' Life" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci

Back in 1967, Buddy Rich was one of the headliners on a summer replacement television broadcast for “The Jackie Gleason Show." If I remember correctly, the show's theme, which Rich and the band did was “Away We Go." It was subsequently released on a Pacific Jazz record The New One. Why is it that the opening ...

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Water and Earth

By Roxy Coss

Label: High Note
Released: 2013


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