Roxy Coss: Artistic Agency & Musical Improvisation (lecture + music)

Join Grammy–award winning musician, composer, educator, and activist Roxy Coss for a lecture-recital featuring a discussion of her background in artistic agency with live jazz improvisation. A renowned jazz saxophonist, Coss is the 2024-2025 Menakka and Essel Bailey ‘66 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, a Bailey College of the Environmental Think Tank fellow, and the founder and president of the Women In Jazz Organization. The event will feature a performance by Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist (and Bailey COE visiting scholar) Roxy Coss, along with Wesleyan’s own Noah Baerman on keyboards, Matt Dwonszyk (bass) & Jonathan Barber (drums).