Artist Description
Listen to a pair of songs from Sotto Voce via these RealAudio stream links:Roy Nathanson - Sunny
Roy Nathanson - It's Alright
Roy Nathanson has a varied career as a saxophonist, composer, band-leader, actor and teacher. He is leader and principal composer of the Jazz Passengers, a six piece group that he founded with Curtis Fowlkes in 1987. They have toured extensively and played major festivals in Europe as well as the J.V.C. Festival in New York, the De Maurier Festival In Canada and in clubs and concerts throughout the U.S. and Canada. The band has also recorded eight albums. In 1994, the band released an original vocal album, Jazz Passengers In Love which was produced by Hal Willner and Huge Dwyer for which Mr. Nathanson, composed a variety of songs. A number of guest vocalists were featured, including Jimmy Scott, Jeff Buckley and Deborah Harry. Since the summer of 1995 The Jazz Passengers, have toured Europe and America with Ms. Harry, and an occasional guest appearance by Vocalist Elvis Costello.
As an independent composer he has scored the work of monologist David Cole. Their work, "Deep in a Dream of You" premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in 1990 and had its New York premiere at the Public Theatre in April 1993. He has scored several works for PBS, and films by Jacob Burkhardt and Tamara Jenkins as well as numerous theater productions for playwright Roy Dobbins and others. He has written children's songs for the HBO series Happily Ever After. Several of his songs will be featured in Karole Armitage's adaptation of "Sheherazade" at the Florence Opera House, and songs that he has written or arranged have appeared in Robert Altman's film Short Cuts and Chantal Akerman's Histoires D'Amerique.
His sideman credits include four years recording and touring with The Lounge Lizards, work with Marc Ribot's Rootless Cosmopolitans, Charles Earland and The Shirelles. He has also performed in special projects including a recent saxophone quartet concert in Brussels with Steve Lacy and Ned Rothenberg in which each of the four musicians contributed an original composition.
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