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"Despite his relatively brief career span thus far, Rosenberg has contributed mightily to improvised music." (Jason Bivins, Dusted Magazine) "Rosenberg has blossomed into one of the best creative saxophonists in America." (François Couture, All-Music Guide) "Rosenberg's wide-ranging works are rewarding both intellectually and physically, offering equal parts humor and seriousness, complexity and simplicity…[He] is following in the footsteps of artists as divergent as noise act Merzbow and new music maverick John Cage, forward thinkers who have organized pieces outside the formal construct of melody." (Sam Prestianni, SF Weekly) His "versatility in interacting with himself is admirable" (Chicago Reader) "A master manipulator of saxes and clarinets." (East Bay Express) "Rosenberg spent most of 2000 busting his ass on behalf of a new generation of Chicago workaholic improvisers." (Monica Kendrick, Chicago Reader) Rosenberg is "a key player in the thriving improv and new-music scenes. " (SF Bay Guardian) Rosenberg is "a fine saxophonist with pinpoint control." (Neil Tesser, Chicago Reader) "Groups like the Rosenberg Skronktet blur the line between jazz (or open improvisation) and chamber music….Anyone interested in how creative music develops will want to keep an ear on their progress." (Kevin Whitehead, The Sun Times) "Don't be surprised if Rosenberg disassembles his horn…and huffs into apertures God never intended, bringing wind tunnels and hurricanes into your previously sheltered cranium." " (Greg Burk, LA Weekly) "In a fair world, [Rosenberg's recent release] OWE might be celebrated as a classic of twenty-first century modern Jazz: It is that good…One cannot listen to this recording and not be moved. It is simply a class act, one that is an early contender for album of the year." (Steven Lowey, Cadence Magazine) The Skronktet West "brings together the cream of West Coast new music. They join him at the vanguard of an intrepid new generation of Americans who are not afraid to journey out to the wild frontiers of instrumental sound and bring back what they find. Check them out." (Dan Warburton, critic for The Wire) Read an interview with Rosenberg in H[ear] Read Rosenberg's Listed entry in Dusted Magazine |