The Joe Rosenberg Ensemble @ The Jazz Loft

In June 2022, the iconic Singapore music venue Blu Jaz reopened its live music program with the Jazz Loft, located on the 3rd floor of it’s premises at Bali Lane.The mission of this new space, is to showcase jazz, and improvisation, as an evolving art form, rather than a museum-piece, presenting those artists, both local and international, that are part of the forward motion, and artistic development of the music.

The Jazz Loft @ Blu Jaz

American Soprano saxophonist Joe Rosenberg returns to the Jazz Loft for a weekend of open musical exploration with his outstanding quintet

By popular demand, and after their stunning weekend of performances in November, Joe Rosenberg and his band are back at the Jazz Loft, this time introducing a new bass player to the mix - a fellow-traveller and regular sideman of his, the Indonesian double bassist Indra Gupta.They will be presenting a showcase of Joe's compositions using his exciting concept of free-form improvisation over unusual structures. Together with his ensemble of master improvisers, there are guaranteed to be some magical moments.The band:Darren Moore on drumsIndra Gupta on bassTan Wei Xiang on pianoTim O'Dwyer on alto saxophoneJoe Rosenberg on soprano saxophoneDoors open at 7.00pmSets at 7.45 and 9.15pmCover charge $22 for both setsABOUT JOE ROSENBERG Soprano saxophonist and composer Joe Rosenberg studied with the legendary Joe Viola, Buddy Collette and clarinetist John Carter and is a recipient of a 1995 Jazz Performance fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.His music is guided by three propositions; rhythm is the one indispensable element of all music, music is not in the notes but in the silence between, harmony is everyone contributing to a single continuous narrative.Joe has performed with artists such as Buddy Collette, Dewey Redman, Gary Foster, Mark Helias, Tom Rainey, Junko Inishi, Taylor Ho Bynum, Masako Hamamura, Edward Perraud, Arnault Cuisinier, Bruno Angelini, Didier Petit and Frederic Blondy.What the press have said:“Rosenberg places the moment-to-moment development of the music first, a mark of the mature artist.” Bill Shoemaker - Down Beat, USA “He takes us into another temporality, a musical meditation on the edge of stillness.”Pascal Rozat - Jazz Magazine, France“Perhaps the finest of what avant-garde jazz currently has to offer.”Benno Bartsch - Jazz Podium, Germany