Biography
Scott Rosenberg has cultivated a strong presence as a reed instrumentalist and composer, earning recognition for his relentless pace within contemporary American improvised music. His earliest recorded appearance occurred with the Creative Music Orchestra during a 1995 session in Oakland. The next year he supplied most of the material for are, a critically regarded set of partially improvised pieces written for a piano-led quartet in which he also played. In 1998 and 1999 Rosenberg substituted on the improvised sessions Bubble and Squeak and Spotted Dick, performed with guitarist John Shiurba and percussionist Gino Robair.
After leaving the Bay Area for Chicago he launched his own imprint, Barely Audible records. The label’s inaugural release, IE (For Large Ensemble), remains his most widely praised and familiar recording. Scored for a 27-piece ensemble, the work highlighted the developing reedist’s abilities as both writer and performer through extended, deliberately paced yet ultimately gratifying pieces alongside brisk, unruly ones.
Nothing Rosenberg has composed since has reached that scale, yet he has maintained an active schedule across other projects. In 2000 he documented the erratic, 99-track LP One Liners with Shiurba and the duet Compositions/Innovations 2000 with Anthony Braxton. He also opened a modest club in Chicago that regularly hosts performances by him and numerous emerging musicians. His current undertaking is the experimental quartet Rosenberg Skrontet, whose V: Solo Improvisations came out in early 2001.
After leaving the Bay Area for Chicago he launched his own imprint, Barely Audible records. The label’s inaugural release, IE (For Large Ensemble), remains his most widely praised and familiar recording. Scored for a 27-piece ensemble, the work highlighted the developing reedist’s abilities as both writer and performer through extended, deliberately paced yet ultimately gratifying pieces alongside brisk, unruly ones.
Nothing Rosenberg has composed since has reached that scale, yet he has maintained an active schedule across other projects. In 2000 he documented the erratic, 99-track LP One Liners with Shiurba and the duet Compositions/Innovations 2000 with Anthony Braxton. He also opened a modest club in Chicago that regularly hosts performances by him and numerous emerging musicians. His current undertaking is the experimental quartet Rosenberg Skrontet, whose V: Solo Improvisations came out in early 2001.
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