Music is the Language of Spirit
‘Art Note Ensemble’ is an international music ensemble that creates cross-stylistic and cross-cultural music by way of exploring beyond the fringes of conventional compositional and improvisational techniques, instrumental techniques, timbre, performance practice and electronics.
The music, best described as Cosmic Music and Jazz Concrete Instrumental, lies between the genres of avant-garde, contemporary jazz, contemporary concert music, electronic music, plus many more, and thrives on honesty and soulfulness.
Lucy Clifford - Bass https://www.lucycliffordmusic.com/
Maher Bearouy - Piano https://www.maherbeauroy.com/
Jake Hirsch - Tenor Sax. http://www.jakehirschmusic.com/
Anggie Obin - Flute
Nathan See - Alto Sax.
Jessie Cox - Drums, Compositions
Bio - Jessie Cox
Jessie Cox is a composer, drummer, educator and music theorist. He has written over 100 works for various musical ensembles including solo works, chamber- and orchestral works, works for jazz ensembles and choirs. As a performer he has played with musicians from all over the world including Maher Beauroy, Barbara LaFitte, Jeremie Jolo, Lucy Clifford, Alexander Levin, etc. He has been studying composition with Richard Carrick, Derek Hurst, Gabriele Vanoni, Andrew List, Marti Epstein, Manuel Kaufmann and Vuk Kulenovic, and Drums with Neal Smith, Tony “Thunder” Smith and Carlos Kort. Jessie has played at the Accra Jazz Festival and the Martinique Jazz Festival with the Maher Beauroy Trio, and won the Leroy Souther’s Award (2015) and the Bill Maloof Award (2017) for his compositions. He was a finalist in the international composition competition ALEA III with his piece Earth for two Bassoons, and two of his compositions have been selected to be featured regularly on the NPR WGBH.
Jessie Cox graduated from the Berklee College of Music on scholarship in 2017, with a degree in composition.
Jessie Cox’s musical career began when he was only three years old. He took rhythm and solfège training at the music school of his hometown Biel/Bienne in Switzerland. At the age of six years his interest in percussion instruments started showing and he began taking Djembe lessons. This was also the time when he first started composing his own music.
When he was twelve years old he started playing the Drumset in different cover bands and he started taking lessons with the internationally acclaimed latin-music artist Carlos Kort.