Marcus Rojas

Marcus Rojas ( born February 23, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American jazz tuba player and music teacher.

Life and work

Marcus Rojas graduated from New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. He then earned a bachelor's degree from New England Conservatory of Music. At the end of the 1980s he was a member of the ensemble of Henry Threadgill and participated in a series of recordings with how Spirit of Nuff ... Nuff (1990). Mid-90s he was a member of the New York avant-garde trio with Spanish Fly with trumpeter Steven Bernstein and guitarist David Tronzo. Created in 1994, the two albums Fly by Night (Accurate Records) and Rags to Britches on Knitting Factory Records.

In addition, Rojas worked throughout his career in recordings with musicians such as Michael Blake, Jim Hall ( Textures, 1996), Howard Johnson's Gravity, Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble in Phantom Orchestra by Anne LeBaron, George Schuller's Orange Then Blue, Marc Ribot, Wadada Leo Smith, John Zorn, Sly & Robbie and fetus with.

The early 2000s, he led the formation Big Happy ( with Michael Blake, Charlie Burnham, Dave Phelps Calvin Weston ). He also played in the big band projects by Marty Ehrlich ( The Long View, 2002) and Wayne Shorter ( Alegria, 2002), worked with Dave Douglas, with whom he performed in a duo with his album and Mountain Passages (2004) participated, and with Oren Marshall in the low Frequency Tuba Project and with Gina Leishman in Kamikaze Ground Crew Covers; in the 2000s in the Shaat'nez band of Ori Kaplan. In 2011 he worked at Ryan True Dells Centennial - with Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Tattoos and Mushrooms (2009), with Steven Bernstein, Marcus Rojas, Kresten Osgood