Adam Rogers
Adam Rogers is an American jazz guitarist.
Adam Rogers

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- Name
- Adam Rogers
- Born
- 1965
- Birthplace
- New York City
- Occupation
- Musician
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- jazz
- Education
- Mannes College The New School for Music
- Honours
- Paul Acket Award
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Adam Rogers is an American jazz guitarist.
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Adam Rogers (born 1965) is an American classical guitarist, guitarist and jazz guitarist, among other activities. The classical guitarist was born in New York City. Adam Rogers studied at Mannes College The New School for Music.
Genres include jazz. The classical guitarist received Paul Acket Award.
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Biography
Biography
Rogers worked across jazz musician, jazz guitarist, classical guitarist, musician and guitarist. The registers place that work in jazz. This article rests on 61 catalogued compositions, 17 published texts, 8 issued recordings and 5 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Adam Rogers • Born — 1965 • Birthplace — New York City • Genre — Jazz • Occupation — Musician • Instrument — Guitar • Label — Criss Cross • Past Member Of — Lost Tribe • Website — www.adamrogersmusic.com Adam Rogers is an American jazz guitarist.
Early life
Early life
The son of Broadway performers and musicians, he began playing piano and drums at just 5 or 6. He became "obsessed" with Jimi Hendrix and began collecting Hendrix recordings after starting guitar at age 11. He listened a great deal to the Hendrix recordings, and by 14 had learned to play in the style of Hendrix. It was at this time that he was exposed to the music of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Wes Montgomery and began to study jazz. His guitar teachers have included John Scofield and Barry Galbraith.
Development
Development
For five years, Rogers studied classical guitar at Mannes School of Music. Beginning in the 1990s, he spent over ten years as a member of the jazz fusion band Lost Tribe with David Binney, David Gilmore, Fima Ephron, and Ben Perowsky. For several years he was a member of Michael Brecker's bands, and was a founding member of the quartet Forq. He leads a quartet and the trio Dice.[1][2] He has also worked with Kenny Barron, Brian Blade, Walter Becker, Michael Brecker & Randy Brecker, Ravi Coltrane, Christian McBride, Uri Caine, James Carter, Regina Carter, Larry Coryell, Eliane Elias, Marcus Miller, Joe Jackson, George Russell, David Sanchez, Bill Evans, Gil Evans Orchestra, Forq, Norah Jones, Jack McDuff, Mingus Big Band, John Patitucci, Chris Potter, Paul Simon, Alex Sipiagin, Phillip Bailey, Kenny Werner, Cassandra Wilson, Lizz Wright, and John Zorn. He was a tour member with Steely Dan on their Earth After Hours 2022 tour.[4][5]
As leader or co-leader
As leader or co-leader
• Art of the Invisible (Criss Cross, 2002) • Allegory (Criss Cross, 2003) • Structure (ACT, 2004) • Apparitions (Criss Cross, 2005) • Time and the Infinite (Criss Cross, 2007) • Heaven on Earth (Half Note, 2009) • Sight (Criss Cross, 2009) • R&B (Criss Cross, 2015) • Dice (Adraj, 2017) With Lost Tribe • Lost Tribe (Windham Hill, 1993) • Soulfish (High Street 1994) • Many Lifetimes (Arabesque, 1998)
As sideman
As sideman
With David Binney • Point Game (Owl, 1990) • Free to Dream (Mythology, 1998) • South (ACT, 2001) • Afinidad with Edward Simon (Red, 2001) • Balance (ACT, 2002) • Welcome to Life (Mythology, 2004) • Out of Airplanes (Mythology, 2006) • Oceanos with Edward Simon (Criss Cross, 2007) • Anacapa (Criss Cross, 2014) With Ralph Bowen • Dedicated (Posi-Tone, 2009) • Due Reverence (Posi-Tone, 2010) With Randy Brecker • Into the Sun (Concord, 1997) • Hangin' in the City (ESC, 2001) • 34th N Lex (ESC, 2003) • The Brecker Brothers Band Reunion (Piloo, 2013) • Randy Pop! (Piloo, 2015) With Regina Carter • Reverse Thread (E1, 2010) • Southern Comfort (Sony, 2014) With Scott Colley • Initial Wisdom (Palmetto, 2002) • Architect of the Silent Moment (CAM Jazz, 2007) With Alana Davis • Fortune Cookies (Elektra, 2001) • Surrender Dorothy (Tigress/Telarc, 2005) With Bill Evans • Live in Europe (Lipstick, 1995) • Starfish & The Moon (Escapade Music, 1997) • Touch (ESC, 1999) With Giora Feidman • The Dance of Joy (plaene, 1992) • Klassic Klezmer (plaene, 1993) • Klezmer Celebration (plaene, 1997) With Phillip Johnston • Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble (Black Saint, 1993) • Music for Films (Tzadik, 1998) With Norah Jones • Come Away with Me (Parlophone, 2002) • Turn Me On (Blue Note, 2002) With David Krakauer • Klezmer Madness! (Tzadik, 1995) • Klezmer, NY (Tzadik, 1998) With Monday Michiru • Episodes in Color (SAR, 2002) • Naked Breath (ArtistShare, 2004) • My Ever Changing Moods (Geneon, 2008) • Nexus (Pony Canyon, 2008) • Don't Disturb This Groove (Grand Gallery 2011) • Soulception (Adventure Music, 2012) With John Patitucci • Line by Line (Concord Jazz, 2006) • Brooklyn (Three Faces, 2015) With Yelena Eckemoff • In the Shadow of a Cloud (L & H Production, 2017) • I Am a Stranger in This World (L & H Production, 2022) With Chris Potter • Traveling Mercies (Verve, 2002) • Underground (Sunnyside, 2006) • Follow the Red Line (Sunnyside, 2007) • Ultrahang (ArtistShare, 2009) • Imaginary Cities (ECM, 2015) With Edward Simon • Simplicitas (Criss Cross, 2005) • Sorrows & Triumphs (Sunnyside, 2018) With Alex Sipiagin • Images (TCB, 1998) • Mirrors (Criss Cross, 2003) • Returning (Criss Cross, 2005) • Out of the Circle (ArtistShare, 2007) • Generations: Dedicated to Woody Shaw (Criss Cross, 2010) • Balance (Criss Cross, 2015) With others • Walter Becker, 11 Tracks of Whack (Giant, 1994) • John Zorn, John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory (Knitting Factory 1995) • Groove Collective, We the People (Giant Step, 1996) • New York Voices, New York Voices Sing the Songs of Paul Simon (RCA Victor, 1998) • Sanne Salomonsen with Chris Minh Doky, In a New York Minute (Virgin, 1998) • Jacky Terrasson, What It Is (Blue Note, 1999) • Michael Philip Mossman, The Orisha Suite (Connector Music, 2001) • Vitamin C, More (Elektra, 2000) • Mingus Big Band, Tonight at Noon (Dreyfus, 2002) • Michael Brecker, Wide Angles (Verve, 2003) • Josh Roseman, Treats for the Nightwalker (Enja, 2003) • Lizz Wright, Salt (Verve, 2003) • Erin Bode, Don't Take Your Time (MAXJAZZ, 2004) • Dennis Chambers, Planet Earth (BHM, 2005) • Chiara Civello, Last Quarter Moon (Verve Forecast, 2005) • Brooke Valentine, Chain Letter (Virgin, 2005) • Malene Mortensen, Malene (Stunt, 2006) • Taylor Haskins, Metaview (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2006) • Brian Lynch, Eddie Palmieri, Simpatico (ArtistShare, 2006) • Kenji Ozawa, Ecology of Everyday Life (Eastworld, 2006) • Eliane Elias, Around the City (RCA Victor, 2006) • Marcus Miller, Renaissance (Concord, Jazz, 2012) • John Escreet, Sabotage and Celebration (Whirlwind, 2013) • Forq, FORQ (Ropeadope/GroundUP music, 2014) • Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Charlie (5Passion, 2015) • Antonio Sanchez, The Meridian Suite (CAM Jazz, 2015) • Nate Smith, Kinfolk: Postcards from Everywhere (Ropeadope, 2017) • Tia Fuller, Diamond Cut (Mack Avenue, 2018) • Joe Locke, Subtle Disguise (Origin, 2018)
Life and work
Life and work
Adam Rogers was born on 1 January 1965 in New York City. Rogers held the nationality of United States. Rogers was educated at Mannes College The New School for Music. Rogers worked as jazz musician, jazz guitarist, classical guitarist and musician, and the authority record catalogues a further 1 occupations under the same name, among them guitarist. The fields Rogers worked in include jazz. Rogers played the guitar.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1965
Adam Rogers was born on 1 January 1965.
Catalogued output
Compositions
The entries below are works composed by the subject, as the institutional registers catalogue them; later performances and commercial recordings of the same music are listed separately. 61 further compositions are catalogued under Rogers's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it. Was.
The entries follow MusicBrainz
L the Bruce
Picnic in the Oaks
The Mystic (For Fred McDowell)
Suite in E minor, BWV 996: I. Waltz of the Yellow Petals
Vision of a Hunt
Night and Day
Pensando Em Você (Thinking of You)
Waters of Tsna River
Long Ago (and Far Away)
On the Motorboat
Tambov Streets on a Summer Night
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The entries follow MusicBrainz
L the Bruce
Picnic in the Oaks
The Mystic (For Fred McDowell)
Suite in E minor, BWV 996: I. Waltz of the Yellow Petals
Vision of a Hunt
Night and Day
Pensando Em Você (Thinking of You)
Waters of Tsna River
Long Ago (and Far Away)
On the Motorboat
Tambov Streets on a Summer Night
In Love in Vain
In the Shadow of a Cloud
Trail Along the River
Young and Foolish
Without a Song
Song for the Earth
I Hear a Rhapsody
I Feel a Song Comin’ On
I Loves You, Porgy
Let’s Cool One
Melhor de 8
Sippin' at Bells
Tempo Bom Céu Aberto
Catalogued output
Writings on music
These are catalogued publications carrying the name — editions and printings, distinct from the works they contain and from writing about the subject. The 2010s are the densest part of the run, with 7 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself.
17 editions carry dates between 1992 and 2021
The run opens with The intrepid traveler and closes with Roman Towns
The entries follow Open Library
The intrepid traveler
1992
The Earth Summit
1993
Taking action
1995
Ocular photodynamic therapy
2002
Rapid Diagnosis in Ophthalmology Series: Retina
2007
Late Roman Towns in Britain
2011
The big guide to small pets
2012
Proof
2014
Archaeology of Roman Britain
2014
Primary material
Recordings and discography
The discography assembled here shows how Rogers's work has been published in sound, not what Rogers made. 8 sound issues are catalogued, carrying dates from 2002 to 2017. An issue is a published recording, distinct from the composition it carries, from a printed score of that composition and from any single performance of it; none of the entries below is counted in the catalogue of compositions above, and several of them carry the same work in different readings. The 2000s are the densest decade of publication, with 5 issues. The performers and issuing labels are as the discographic register states them; where it names no performer the article names none.
Sight
2009
Art of the Invisible
2002
R&B
2015
Structure
2004
Allegory
2003
Quasar
2013
Time and the Infinite
2007
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Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Yanow, Scott. The Great Jazz Guitarists. Backbeat. 167. 2013. 978-1-61713-023-6.
- 2.Miller, David. Adam Rogers: Tonal Beauty. All About Jazz. 12 September 2005.
- 3.Milkowski, Bill. Before & After with Guitarist Adam Rogers. JazzTimes. 20 August 2012.
- 4.Guitar Adam Rogers Music United States. Adam Rogers Music.
- 5.Steely Dan at the Hollywood Bowl. Jambands. 2022-06-07.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
institutional register
Wikidata, structured authority record Q350741: Adam RogersWikimedia Foundation
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 18 August 2026.
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