- Pete Robbins
Pete Robbins (born
November 28 ,1978 ) is a professional Americanjazz saxophonist andcomposer living inBrooklyn . He records for the Barcelona-based labelFresh Sound New Talent .He was born in Andover, MA and graduated from
Phillips Academy in 1997. In 2002, he graduated from theNew England Conservatory andTufts University and relocated to Brooklyn, NY in September 2002 [ [http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/05/16/sax_man_likes_to_go_with_the_flow/ Sax man likes to go with the flow - The Boston Globe ] ] . He currently leads three groups: CENTRIC (w/ Sam Sadigursky, Eliot Cardinaux, Thomas Morgan, Dan Weiss); sILENT Z (w/ Jesse Neuman, Mike Gamble, Thomas Morgan, Tyshawn Sorey); and the PETE ROBBINS / MARIO PAVONE / TYSHAWN SOREY TRIO. These groups regularly play around New York at venues such as 55 Bar, Cornelia Street Café, Detour, Bowery Poetry Club, and The Tea Lounge. They have also toured around the East Coast and Europe, with yearly appearances at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival (2006, 2007, 2008) [ [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=1579 Pete Robbins at All About Jazz ] ] .In 2004, Robbins curated a series of concerts at New York’s Cornelia Street Café, on behalf of the organization Music For America, dedicated to building political awareness and exposing the hypocrisy of Bush administration policies. Musicians including Dave Douglas, Uri Caine, Rodney Green and John O’Gallagher shared a bill with Robbins’ own band and the series was the featured in the Village Voice’s 2004 fall preview issue [ [http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0437,falljazz,56717,1.html village voice > news > Fall Jazz: Give His Piece a Chance: Pete Robbins Jazzes Up National Politics by Jim Macnie ] ] .
His work as a composer and bandleader recently earned him a 2006 Chamber Music America composition grant [ [http://www.chamber-music.org/programs/recipients.html Chamber Music America ] ] . As part of this grant, Robbins was commissioned to adapt three compositions by the Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo [ [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=18054 Jazz News: Alto Saxophonist/Composer Pete Robbins on Tour ] ] .
Discography
References
External links
* [http://www.peterobbins.com Official website]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/arts/music/27play.html New York Times review of Do the Hate Laugh Shimmy]
* [http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid61374.aspx Boston Phoenix review of Do the Hate Laugh Shimmy]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/arts/music/04robb.html New York Times review of Centric]
* [http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/05/16/sax_man_likes_to_go_with_the_flow/ Boston Globe article]
* [http://www.jazzpolice.com/content/view/6624/79/ Jazz Police review of Waits and Measures]
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