“It would be an understatement to say that Jeremy Rose is one of the most creative and restless musicians in the Australian jazz scene.” www.australianjazz.net

Sydney saxophonist-composer Jeremy Rose leads a multi-dimensional career spanning a dozen releases of original music with collaborative and solo projects including The Earshift Orchestra, Jeremy Rose Quartet, and The Vampires, and is director of Earshift Music record label and festival. Rose has performed at festivals, venues and concert halls throughout Australia, Europe and the UK and recently toured Europe with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and collaborated with Benin born Blue Note guitarist Lionel Loueke. Rose has been described as “one of the most creative and restless musicians in the Australian jazz scene” (Australianjazz.net) and “a brilliant jazz composer and instrumentalist, a young man with a social purpose” (The Australian), and “a bold, emerging Aussie voice” (Limelight Magazine).

Rose has received recognition through nominations for the ARIA Awards, three AIR Awards, Australian Music Prize short-listing, two Jazz Bell Awards, the APRA Professional Development Award for Jazz, a four-time finalist for the AMC Art Music Award for Excellence in Jazz and runner up at the National Jazz Awards saxophone competition. As a label director of Earshift Music Rose has fostered a community of creative musicians throughout Australasia which NYC Jazz Records describes as “hell bent on pushing the very definition of jazz.”

“His playing shows subtle glimpses of a mature master” The Australian

“His compositions are ruthlessly crafted affairs, with sufficient variety to bring out different aspects of everyone’s playing” SMH

“A brilliant Sydney jazz composer and instrumentalist, a young man with a social purpose.” Eric Myers, The Australian

“A bold, emerging Aussie voice.”  Limelight Magazine