Renee Rosnes Explained

Renee Rosnes
Background:non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth Name:Irene Louise Rosnes
Birth Date:24 March 1962
Birth Place:Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Genre:Jazz
Occupation:pianist, composer, arranger[1]
Instrument:Piano
Years Active: 1985–present
Current Member Of:Artemis
Label:Blue Note, Smoke Sessions

Irene Louise Rosnes (born 24 March 1962), known professionally as Renee Rosnes, is a Canadian jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.

Early life

Rosnes was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and grew up in North Vancouver, British Columbia, where she attended Handsworth Secondary School. She was three when she began taking classical piano lessons. She became interested in jazz music in high school, introduced to it through the school's band director Bob Rebagliati. She then attended the University of Toronto, where she pursued classical performance with pianist William Aide. In 1985, Rosnes was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts grant, and moved to New York City to further her studies.[2]

Career

Shortly after arriving in New York, Rosnes became the pianist for the Blue Note Records label band, Out of the Blue, and recorded the 1989 album "Spiral Staircase" with the band. After tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson hired her to play with his quartet in 1986, Rosnes began an international career. In 1988, she was a member of the Wayne Shorter Band and in 1989, she joined trombonist J. J. Johnson's Quintet and remained his pianist of choice until he retired in 1997. In 1989, she also began working with tenor saxophonist James Moody and was the pianist in his quartet for the next 20 years. Rosnes frequently performed with vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, and recorded For Sentimental Reasons with his quartet in 2007. She was a founding member of the SFJAZZ Collective, and played with the octet from 2004 through 2009. Since 2012, she has been a member of bassist Ron Carter's Foursight Band, which tours frequently in Europe.[3]

In 2023, Rosnes won her seventh Canadian Juno Award for Solo Jazz Album of the Year for Kinds of Love Smoke Sessions Records, recorded with Chris Potter on tenor, soprano saxes and flute, Christian McBride on bass, and Carl Allen on drums and Rogerio Boccato on percussion. She made four Japanese trio recordings for the VideoArts label with The Drummonds with ex-husband Billy Drummond and the unrelated Ray Drummond on bass. She married jazz pianist Bill Charlap on 25 August 2007, and the couple released a piano duet recording titled Double Portrait (Blue Note).[4]

Rosnes was the host of Jazz Profiles, a CBC Radio show in which she profiled Canadian jazz musicians. Guests included pianists Paul Bley, Joe Sealy and Oliver Jones, bassists Don Thompson and Michel Donato, trumpeters Guido Basso and Kenny Wheeler, and drummer Terry Clarke.[5] With producer Kelly Peterson[6] Rosnes is a co-founder of the Canadian Jazz Master Awards[7] and was the artistic director of the Oscar Peterson International Jazz Festival, which took place in Ontario, Canada.[8] Rosnes is the pianist and musical director of the sextet Artemis.[9] The other members are Ingrid Jensen (trumpet), Alexa Tarantino (alto sax & reeds), Noriko Ueda (bass), Allison Miller (drums). The group signed with the Blue Note label, and their eponymously titled debut album was released on 11 September 2020.[10] [11]

Awards and honours

Discography

As leader

As a member

Out of the Blue

Superblue

The Drummonds
With Ray Drummond, Billy Drummond

SFJAZZ Collective

As sideperson

With Ron Carter

With Todd Coolman

With Michael Dease

With Billy Drummond

With Jon Faddis

With Jimmy Greene

With Joe Henderson

With J. J. Johnson

With Marian McPartland

With Jimmy Scott

With Gary Thomas

With Walt Weiskopf

With Gerald Wilson

With Dave Young

With others

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Uman . Eugene . Renee Rosnes Quartet presents jazz standards from the Great American Songbook . The Brattleboro Reformer . 17 July 2018 . 14 April 2016.
  2. Web site: She-bop: Renee Rosnes. Saturday Night. April, 1993.. justinsmallbridge.com. 27 September 2016.
  3. Web site: Ron Carter Foursight "Dear Miles" – Port of Rotterdam North Sea Jazz Festival. northseajazz.com. 27 September 2016.
  4. Web site: Bill Charlap, Renee Rosnes Duet In 'Double Portrait'. NPR. 27 September 2016.
  5. Web site: The Jazz Portraits. batteryradio.com. 27 September 2016.
  6. Web site: About . Oscar Peterson International Jazz Festival . 14 January 2020.
  7. Web site: About the CJMA . Oscar Peterson International Jazz Festival . 14 January 2020.
  8. Web site: Introducing the Inaugural Oscar Peterson International Jazz Festival – February 2018 . Bravo Niagara! Festival of the Arts . 14 January 2020 . 27 January 2017.
  9. Web site: Chinen . Nate . Women in Jazz? For Artemis, It's Bigger Than A Cause . NPR . 14 January 2020 . 22 November 2018.
  10. Web site: Artemis. Blue Note Records. 11 September 2020. 5 June 2021.
  11. News: Silver. Matt. Jazz Album of the Week: A Triumph of Style and Substance from the International Supergroup Artemis. WRTI. 9 October 2021. 5 June 2021.
  12. Web site: The Hugh Fraser Quintet – Looking Up. Discogs. 21 March 2021.
  13. Web site: The Hugh Fraser Quintet 1988 performance in Montreal. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211214/o6UDoEynzS8 . 2021-12-14 . live. 8 September 2019 . YouTube. 21 March 2021.
  14. Web site: Awards The JUNO Awards. The JUNO Awards. 3 June 2017.
  15. Web site: Event Details – Sikh Foundation of Canada. sikhfoundationcanada.com. 27 September 2016. 24 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161024215120/http://sikhfoundationcanada.com/centennial-gala/event-details/. dead.
  16. Web site: L'Équipe Spectra – Press Releases. equipespectra.ca. 2018-07-28.
  17. http://www.nycjazzrecord.com/issues/tnycjr201804.pdf Renee Rosnes, Beloved of the Sky
  18. http://dlmediamusic.com/press-releases/renee-rosnes-kinds-of-love-available-september-3-via-smoke-sessions-records/ Renee Rosnes “Kinds of Love” Available September 3 via Smoke Sessions Records
  19. Blue Note Records: ARTEMIS "IN REAL TIME" – Blue Note Records, accessdate: 23 May 2023