Roxy Coss

Assistant Professor in Jazz,
Director of Jazz Studies

roxy.coss@stonybrook.edu
www.roxycoss.com

GRAMMY Award-winning Saxophonist Roxy Coss has been a celebrated figure on the New York scene for over fifteen years. She is the recipient of a Downbeat Critics’ Poll "Rising Star" Award, an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, Local 802’s Emerging Artist Project, Jazziz Magazine’s “Artist to Watch", and Hothouse Magazine’s “Tenor Saxophone” Award. Coss is a prolific composer and established bandleader, having released six albums, including her latest, Disparate Parts (OiM 2022), to critical acclaim. Her newest release, a digital and vinyl-exclusive EP, Never Meet Your Heroes, will release on November 14th (OiM). 

Roxy is also an in-demand side musician, and has performed with Clark Terry, Louis Hayes, Rufus Reid, Billy Kaye, Houston Person, Bill Charlap, Claudio Roditi, Jeremy Pelt, Willie Jones III, Geoffrey Keezer, Maurice Hines, Darcy James Argue, the Mingus Big Band, the Diva Jazz Orchestra, and the Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra. 

Coss is the Founder and President of Women In Jazz Organization (WIJO), and Co-Artistic Director of the Brubeck Jazz Summit.