Roxy Coss

Roxy Coss is a saxophonist, activist and composer based in New York. She is the winner of the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award and has attracted attention from major music magazines and organizations. Background Originally from Seattle, Coss is one of only a few female band leaders in the Jazz field. By the age of six or seven, she was taking piano lessons and composing music. At the age of nine she took up saxophone in her elementary school's band and by the age of eleven she was listening to jazz and playing in the jazz band at school. Also, at that time she entered into the city-wide "Reflections" composition contest and came in third. In 2015, she served as a faculty member at the New York Summer Music Festival. 2016 marked the third year in a row that DownBeat 'Critics' Polls placed her on the "Rising Star" list as a Soprano Saxophonist. Career Coss played with Clark Terry's Titans at a venue in 2005.