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Greg Osby
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Osby performing in 2008
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| Background information | |
| Born | August 3, 1960 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Genres | Free jazz, free funk, M-Base |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, record label owner |
| Instruments | Saxophone |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Labels | JMT, Blue Note, Inner Circle Music |
| Associated acts | Stata Institute, M-Base Collective |
Greg Osby (born August 3, 1960) is an American saxophonist and composer.
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Biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Osby studied at Howard University, then at the Berklee College of Music. 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. In 1985, he joined DeJohnette's group Special Edition. With Geri Allen, Steve Coleman, Gary Thomas, and Cassandra Wilson, he was a founding member of the M-Base Collective.
Osby began recording albums under his own name for JMT Records in the mid-1980s, then signed with Blue Note in 1989. In 2007, he formed his own label, Inner Circle Music. He gave exposure to young pianist Jason Moran, 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.
He has also played with Phil Lesh and Friends, and he has toured with the Dead, a reincarnation of the Grateful Dead. .....
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."
Discography
As leader
| Recording date | Title | Label | Year released | Notes |
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| 1987-05, 1987-06 |
Greg Osby and Sound Theatre | JMT | 1987 | |
| 1988-05 | Mindgames | JMT | 1988 | |
| 1989-07 | Season of Renewal | JMT | 1989 | |
| 1990-10, 1990-11 |
Man-Talk for Moderns Vol. X | Blue Note | 1991 | |
| 1993? | 3-D Lifestyles | Blue Note | 1993 | |
| 1995? | Black Book | Blue Note | 1995 | |
| 1996? | Art Forum | Blue Note | 1996 | |
| 1997? | Further Ado | Blue Note | 1997 | |
| 1997-12 | Banned in New York | Blue Note | 1998 | Live |
| 1998-01 | Zero | Blue Note | 1998 | |
| 1998-12 | Friendly Fire | Blue Note | 1999 | with Joe Lovano, Jason Moran, Cameron Brown, Idriss Muhammad |
| 1999-04 | Inner Circle | Blue Note | 2002 | with Stefon Harris, Jason Moran, Tarus Mateen, Eric Harland |
| 1999-05 | New Directions | Blue Note | 2000 | with Stefon Harris, Jason Moran, 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 | |
| 2004-01 | Public | Blue Note | 2004 | Live |
| 2005-02 | Channel Three | Blue Note | 2005 | with Jeff "Tain" Watts, Matt Brewer |
| 2008-08 | 9 Levels | Inner Circle Music | 2008 | |
| 2023-10 | Minimalism | Inner Circle Music | 2023 | with Tal Cohen, João Barradas, Nimrod Speaks, Adam Arruda, Viktorija Pilatovic, Alessandra Diodati |
As sideman
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With Franco Ambrosetti
With Uri Caine
With Gary Thomas
With Andrew Hill
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With others
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See also
In Spanish: Greg Osby para niños In Spanish: Greg Osby para niños
