associated_acts birth_place label article_title background birth_date instrument genre origin name
trio -rrb- cosmosomatics -lrb- with sonny simmons -rrb- x -lrb- with joe mcphee , dominic duval philadelphia , pa , usa cimp , cadence jazz jay rosen -lrb- drummer -rrb-
 non_vocal_instrumentalist 20 november 1961 drum kit , percussion instruments jazz long island , new york jay rosen
jay rosen -lrb- drummer -rrb-

jay rosen -lrb- born november 20 , 1961 , philadelphia , pennsylvania -rrb- is an american jazz drummer .
rosen is a member of trio x with trumpeter/saxophonist joe mcphee and double bassist dominic duval , and performs in cosmosomatics with saxophonist sonny simmons .
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 -lrb- with an occasional lesson from the elder alexander -rrb- .
later , he would briefly study with barry altschul .
around age 18 , rosen became a professional musician , and played in a variety of settings , such as studio work , weddings and cocktail lounges , as well as in various musical styles , including rock and roll , rhythm and blues , country , jazz , and brazilian music .
his recording career in improvised music began in the mid-1990s , when he recorded `` split personality '' -lrb- gm records -rrb- with mark whitecage and dominic duval .
he began an association with the cimp label in 1996 , and has appeared on at least fifty cimp albums -lrb- as well as seven albums from the related cadence jazz records -rrb- .
todd jenkins describes rosen and duval as the `` house rhythm section '' for cimp , given the number of recordings on which they have jointly appeared .
since 1998 , rosen has performed with joe mcphee and dominic duval in trio x .
in 2000 , rosen joined cosmosomatics , a quartet including 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 .
while 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 , does n'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 . ''
