Jay Rosen (drummer)

Jay Rosen (drummer)
Jay Rosen (born November 20, 1961) is an American jazz drummer. He is a member of Trio X with Joe McPhee and Dominic Duval and performs in Cosmosomatics with Sonny Simmons.
Career
At age 10, Rosen became interested in jazz drumming after seeing Tony Williams perform with Sonny Rollins. He took lessons from Tracy Alexander, son of Mousey Alexander (with an occasional lesson from the elder Alexander). Later, he would study briefly with Barry Altschul.
Around age 18, Rosen became a professional musician. He worked at studios, weddings, and cocktail lounges in rock, rhythm and blues, country, jazz, and Brazilian music. His recording career in improvised music began in the mid-1990s, when he recorded Split Personality (GM Records) with Mark Whitecage and Dominic Duval. He began an association with the CIMP label in 1996, and has also recorded for Cadence). Todd Jenkins describes Rosen and Duval as the "house rhythm section" for CIMP, given the number of recordings on which they have appeared.
Since 1998, Rosen has performed with Joe McPhee and Dominic Duval in Trio X. In 2000, he joined Cosmosomatics, a quartet with saxophonists Sonny Simmons and Michael Marcus and bassist William Parker.
Rosen describes himself as "a musician who plays percussion" rather than "'just a drummer.'" He uses a set of small cymbals that he approaches "like a string player, or a reed player," and his drum kit includes objects such as a boat propeller and a set of organ pipes that he activates with foot-driven bellows. Although Rosen is associated with free improvisation, he questions whether the music he plays is "free:""While 'free music' indicates that you're free to play whatever you want to play and you're not following chord progressions, and there's no time, there's no this, no that...The way I've been playing free music, with my constituents, doesn't really follow those guidelines. When we play, it's very well put together, in actuality. We're not just blowing to blow; there's listening going on, there's concerted effort at construction and organization, at putting things together — at minute levels — that hardly go on in 'free music' anymore."
Discography
As leader or co-leader
The Hammer (Leo, 2000) with Ivo Perelman
Canticles for the New Millennium (CIMP, 2000) with Vinny Golia, Paul Smoker, Mark Whitecage
Drums 'n' Bugles (CIMP, 2002)
Songs for Samuel (CIMP, 2005)
No Prisoners (CIMP, 2012) with Dominic Duval, Jon Irabagon, Demian Richardson
With The Cosmosamatics
The Cosmosamatics (Boxholder, 2001)
The Cosmosamatics II (Boxholder, 2001)
Three (Boxholder, 2004)
Magnitudes (Soul Note, 2005)
With Resonance Impeders
Resonance Impeders (CIMP, 1998) with Chris Dahlgren, Briggan Krauss
At All Costs Unknown (CIMP, 2001)
With Trio X
Rapture (Cadence Jazz, 1998)
The Watermelon Suite (CIMP, 1999)
On Tour: Toronto/Rochester (Cadence Jazz, 2001)
In Black and White (Cadence, 2002)
Journey (CIMP, 2003)
The Sugar Hill Suite (CIMP, 2004)
Moods Playing with the Elements (CIMP, 2005)
Traumerei (Prophone, 2015)
Air: Above & Beyond (City Hall, 2015)
Live on Tour 2010 (City Hall, 2016)
Live in Green Bay and Buffalo (Cimpol/City Hall, 2016)
Live at Craig Kessler & Janet Lessner's (CIMP/City Hall, 2016)
2006 U.S. Tour (Cimpol/City Hall, 2016)
Live at Kerrytown (Cimpol/City Hall, 2016)
Live at the Sugar Maple (Cimpol/City Hall, 2016)
As sideman
With Andrew Cheshire
1998 Relax Keep the Tension Please
2000 Magic
2002 Faces
2003 Morning Song
With Dominic Duval
1997 The Wedding Band
2001 Asylem
2003 No Respect
With John Gunther
1997 Healing Song
1997 Permission Granted
1998 Above Now Below
2001 Gone Fishing
2005 In This World
With Ivo Perelman
1996 Revelation
1996 Seeds Visions and Counterpoint
1996 Slaves of Job
1999 Sieiro
2001 The Seven Energies of the Universe
With Mark Whitecage
1996 Caged No More
1996 Free for Once
1997 3 + 4 = 5
1998 Split Personality
1999 Research on the Edge
With others
1995 Inner Voice, Mike Frost
1996 Elements, Michael Jefry Stevens
1996 Falling in Flat Space, Herb Robertson
1997 Moons of Jupiter, Steve Swell
1998 Standard Deviation, Paul Smoker
2002 Blue Reality, Michael Marcus
2005 Wishing You Were Here, Chris Kelsey
2006 Cut It Out, Gebhard Ullmann
References
American jazz drummers
CIMP artists
Living people
1961 births
20th-century American drummers
American male drummers
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians