Greg Osby

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Greg Osby (born August 3, 1960)<ref name="feather">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

Biography

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Osby studied at Howard University, then at the Berklee College of Music.<ref name="feather" /> He moved to New York City in 1982, where he played with Jaki Byard, Jim Hall, Muhal Richard Abrams, Andrew Hill, Jack DeJohnette, Dizzy Gillespie, and Herbie Hancock.<ref name="aaj">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1985, he joined DeJohnette's group Special Edition.<ref name="aaj" /> With Geri Allen, Steve Coleman, Gary Thomas, and Cassandra Wilson, he was a founding member of the M-Base Collective.<ref name="Ankeny">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Osby began recording albums under his own name for JMT Records in the mid-1980s, then signed with Blue Note in 1989.<ref name="aaj" /> In 2007, he formed his own label, Inner Circle Music.<ref name="aaj" /> He gave exposure to young pianist Jason Moran,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> who appeared on most of Osby's 1990s albums, including Further Ado, Zero, Banned in New York and Symbols of Light, a double quartet featuring the addition of a string quartet to the band.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He has also played with Phil Lesh and Friends, and he has toured with the Dead, a reincarnation of the Grateful Dead.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He received the Playboy Magazine Jazz Artist of the Year award for 2004 and 2009.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Nate Chinen, writing for The New York Times, called Osby "a mentor and a pacesetter, one of the sturdier bridges between jazz generations," and stated that he has "a keen, focused tone on alto saxophone and a hummingbird's phrasing, an equilibrium of hover and flutter."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Discography

As leader/co-leader

Recording date	Title	Label	Year released	Notes
1987-05, 1987-06	Greg Osby and Sound Theatre	JMT	1987	with Michele Rosewoman, Kevin McNeal, Lonnie Plaxico, Paul Samuels, Terri Lyne Carrington, Fusako Yoshida, Haruko Nara
1988-05	Mindgames	JMT	1988	with Geri Allen, Edward Simon, Kevin McNeal, Lonnie Plaxico, Paul Samuels
1989-07	Season of Renewal	JMT	1990	with Kevin Eubanks, Edward Simon, Lonnie Plaxico, Paul Samuels, Cassandra Wilson, Amina Claudine Myers, Renee Rosnes, Steve Thornton
1990-10, 1990-11	Man-Talk for Moderns Vol. X	Blue Note	1991	with Edward Simon, Michael Cain, Chan Johnson, David Gilmore, Lonnie Plaxico, James Genus, Billy Kilson), Steve Moss and with guests: Steve Coleman, Gary Thomas, Hochmad Ali Akkbar
1993?	3-D Lifestyles	Blue Note	1993	with Darrell Grant, Geri Allen, Cassandra Wilson
1995?	Black Book	Blue Note	1995	with Mulgrew Miller, DJ Ghetto, Calvin Jones, Bill McClellan
1996?	Art Forum	Blue Note	1996	with Marvin Sewell, Lonnie Plaxico, Alex Harden, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Cleave Guyton, James Williams, Darrell Grant, Robin Eubanks, Bryan Carrott
1997?	Further Ado	Blue Note	1997	with Jason Moran, Calvin Jones, Lonnie Plaxico, Eric Harland, Cleave Guyton, Jeff Haynes, Mark Shim, Tim Hagans
1997-12	Banned in New York	Blue Note	1998	Live with Jason Moran, Atsushi (Az'Shi) Osada, Rodney Green
1998-01	Zero	Blue Note	1998	with Jason Moran, Dwayne Burno, Lonnie Plaxico, Rodney Green, Kevin McNeal
1998-12	Friendly Fire	Blue Note	1999	co-led with Joe Lovano and with Jason Moran, Cameron Brown, Idris Muhammad
1999-04	Inner Circle	Blue Note	2002	with Jason Moran, Stefon Harris, Tarus Mateen, Eric Harland
1999-05	New Directions	Blue Note	2000	with Jason Moran, Stefon Harris, Mark Shim
1999-09	The Invisible Hand	Blue Note	2000	with Gary Thomas, Andrew Hill, Jim Hall, Scott Colley, Terri Lyne Carrington
2001-01	Symbols of Light (A Solution)	Blue Note	2001	with Jason Moran, Scott Colley, Marlon Browden, Nioka Workman, Judith Insell, Marlene Rice, Christian Howes
2003-01	St. Louis Shoes	Blue Note	2003	with Nicholas Payton, Harold O'Neal, Robert Hurst, Rodney Green
2004-01	Public	Blue Note	2004	Live with Nicholas Payton, Megumi Yonezawa, Robert Hurst, Rodney Green, Joan Osborne
2005-02	Channel Three	Blue Note	2005	with Jeff "Tain" Watts, Matt Brewer
2008-08	9 Levels	Inner Circle Music	2008	with Sara Serpa, Adam Birnbaum, Nir Felder, Joseph Lepore, Hamir Atwal
2019	Minimalism	Inner Circle Music	2023	with Tal Cohen, João Barradas, Nimrod Speaks, Adam Arruda, Viktorija Pilatovic, Alessandra Diodati