1. Renee Rosnes was three when she began taking classical piano lessons.
11 Facts About Renee Rosnes
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Renee Rosnes became interested in jazz music in high school, introduced to it through the school's band director Bob Rebagliati.
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Renee Rosnes then attended the University of Toronto, where she pursued classical performance with pianist William Aide.
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In 1985, Renee Rosnes was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts grant, and moved to New York City to further her studies.
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Shortly after arriving in New York, Renee Rosnes became the pianist for the Blue Note Records label band, Out of the Blue, and recorded the 1989 album "Spiral Staircase" with the band.
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Renee Rosnes frequently performed with vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, and recorded For Sentimental Reasons with his quartet in 2007.
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Renee Rosnes was a founding member of the SFJAZZ Collective, and played with the octet from 2004 through 2009.
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In 2023, Renee Rosnes won her seventh Canadian Juno Award for Solo Jazz Album of the Year for Kinds of Love Smoke Sessions Records, recorded with Chris Potter on tenor, soprano saxes and flute, Christian McBride on bass, and Carl Allen on drums and Rogerio Boccato on percussion.
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Renee Rosnes made four Japanese trio recordings for the VideoArts label with The Drummonds with ex-husband Billy Drummond and the unrelated Ray Drummond on bass.
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Renee Rosnes married jazz pianist Bill Charlap on 25 August 2007, and the couple released a piano duet recording titled Double Portrait.
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Renee Rosnes was the host of Jazz Profiles, a CBC Radio show in which she profiled Canadian jazz musicians.