Christopher Robin Cox

Christopher Robin Cox is a trombonist, free improviser, composer, and writer, who has played with a wide array of world-class musicians ranging from creative improvised music to political hip-hop. He has shared the stage with the likes of Marco Eneidi, Glenn Spearman, Jackson Krall, Amiri Baraka, Junkyard Empire, Jason Robinson, George Cremashi, David R. Molina, and routinely plays with some of the most respected improvisers in Hungary and is increasingly on the radar of players in Austria, Germany, Italy, and beyond.

He is a product of the artistically fertile Sonoma County area of Northern California, where he first cut his teeth playing with blues, funk, and reggae bands up and down the Russian River, eventually moving on to play with free jazz royalty in the San Francisco/Oakland scene of the 1990s.

He has been called a "musical maniac" by music critic and journalist Dwight Hobbes, and his tone on trombone has been called "monstrous" by Hungarian trumpeter Tentamanti Tamas. No music is beyond interest to him, and one is highly likely to hear the influences of everything from Sigor Rós to DIIV to Bill Dixon in his approach to the horn and composition, depending upon the project he is engaged in. He is, in the words of one fellow musician, "dedicated to the improvisation and hand."

His new project AlOnE features him playing electrified and effected trombone with various other musicians, often without knowing who those musicians will be until his arrival. This is the plan for his upcoming fall tour, dates still pending.

While his sound on the horn is dark, large, and holds a unique timbre, his influences can most definitely be heard by discerning ears, including, Don Cherry, Raphe Malik, Albert Mangelsdorff, Bill Dixon, Grachan Moncur, Roswell Rudd, and many others. His compositions often merge written repetitive bass lines and melodies over odd meters with completely free improvisation, as well as compositions that are fully contextual and based upon concepts not of musical origin.