Greg Osby

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Greg Osby (born in St. Louis, Missouri on 3 April 1960) is a jazz saxophonist who plays mainly in the free and M-Base idioms.

He studied at the Berklee College of Music. He played on Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition, and has recorded with Steve Coleman.

He has contributed to the homages to Miles Davis's 1970s electric jazz performed by Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith's "Yo Miles" group. The Village Voice critic Francis Davis wrote of his contribution to their double album Upriver, "Greg Osby superimposes his own brand of rhythmic complexity (one fully worthy of Wayne Shorter) on the rhythm section's static vamps every time he steps forward."

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