George Rogers – saxophone.
Isaiah Harwood – piano.
Graeham Guerin – upright bass.
Max Simas – drums & cymbals.

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Students, $10.
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Rogers/Harwood/Guerin/Simas is a collective of contemporary jazz composers and instrumentalists with roots in both the Bay Area and Northeast Ohio. They debuted in January 2024 to a sold-out audience in Berkeley—a musical hub for three of the band members who grew up playing together.

As a collective, these musicians have performed at the Back Room, Libretto, the Stowaway, and packed house concerts. As individuals, they have performed at SFJAZZ, Dizzy’s Club, Bird & Beckett, Nublu, Sam First, Lollapalooza Festival, and many more, alongside a variety of musicians including Wynton Marsalis, the Yellowjackets, members of the SFJAZZ Collective, Nicole McCabe, and Walter the Producer. The ensemble’s style synthesizes elements of traditional, modern and avant-garde jazz, while also embracing influences from popular, experimental and singer-songwriter music.

Recently named first-place winner of the 2025 Vandoren Emerging Artist Award in Jazz, George Rogers is a Bay Area native based in Oberlin, Ohio, and regularly performs in the Bay Area and New York.

George has been mentored by saxophone legends Gary Bartz, Dick Oatts, Justin Robinson, and Dann Zinn, and has performed at prestigious venues across the nation including Dizzy’s Club, SFJAZZ, Nublu, Libretto, the Concord Jazz Festival, the Vail Jazz Party and the Cleveland Museum of Art, as well as local venues such as the West Oakland Sound Series, the Back Room and Tom’s Place. He has performed alongside numerous musical legends, including Wynton Marsalis, Gerald Cannon, Dan Wall, Soweto Kinch, Luis Perdomo, Eva Scow, Zack Brock, and Bob Lanzetti.

During his West Coast swing this summer, in addition to his work in the collective, George has reunited with vocalist Lorin Benedict on a pair of dates. Their July 13 encounter at the West Coast Sound Series was captured in this recording: