Name: Roxy Coss Quintet
Start: 2026-01-25T16:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-01-25T19:30:00-07:00
Location: The Century Room

($25-$35 +Dice fees | 4:30pm & 6:30pm Shows) Welcome the prolific Grammy-winning saxophonist and composer, Roxy Coss for her much anticipated Century Room Return! The Roxy Coss Quintet explores a multitude of textures and modalities in contemporary cross-genre artistry, while maintaining a strong foundation of swing, the blues, and improvisation from the Black American Music tradition and lineage. Bandleader Coss plays saxophones and provides the majority of the compositions and arrangements. This ensemble features musicians who are all rising star bandleaders, composers, instrumentalists, and world class educators.
Roxy Coss (tenor & soprano saxophones) Alex Wintz (guitar) Caili O’Doherty (piano & Rhodes) Dave Baron (bass) Cory Cox (drums)
GRAMMY Award-winning Saxophonist, Composer, Educator and Activist Roxy Coss has been a celebrated figure on the New York scene for the past twenty years. She is the recipient of a Downbeat Critics’ Poll "Rising Star" Award, an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, The AFM Local 802’s four-year “Emerging Artist” grant, Jazziz Magazine’s “Artist to Watch", and Hothouse Magazine’s “Tenor Saxophone” Award. Coss is a prolific composer and established bandleader, having released seven records to critical acclaim. Her latest, Never Meet Your Heroes, came out in November 2025 (OiM). She has performed extensively around the world, headlining major festivals and venues and performing as a side musician with Clark Terry, Louis Hayes, Rufus Reid, Billy Kaye, Houston Person, Bill Charlap, Claudio Roditi, Helen Sung, Elio Villafranca, Mike Pope, Jeremy Pelt, Geoffrey Keezer, Maurice Hines, Gillian Margot, Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach Nonet, Ulysses Owens Jr., Bryan Carter, The Birdland Big Band, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, the Mingus Big Band, the Diva Jazz Orchestra, and the Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra. Coss is currently Director of Jazz Studies at Stony Brook University, President of Women In Jazz Organization (WIJO), and Co-Artistic Director of the Brubeck Jazz Summit. She endorses Saxophones and Accessories from Vandoren, P. Mauriat and Keyleaves.
This performance is made possible with the support of Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, which is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.