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Adam Rogers is an American guitarist specializing in post bop, contemporary jazz, and classical music. He formally was a member of the Michael Brecker Group, the Mingus Orchestra, and Lost Tribe.

As one of the most in-demand guitarists in the world, Rogers has performed and/or recorded with many top musicians including Michael Brecker, Chris Potter, David Binney, Edward Simon, Randy Brecker, John Patitucci, Brian Blade, Bill Stewart, Scott Colley, Clarence Penn, Nate Smith, Craig Tayborn, John Zorn, Regina Carter, Elvis Costello, Norah Jones, the Mingus Orchestra, Bill Evans, Matt Garrison, David Krakauer, and Ben Perowsky. He has appeared on over one hundred and fifty albums and toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, South America, The Middle East and Russia.

He has also maintained a presence in the N.Y.C. studio world having played on the soundtracks of numerous films and television commercial jingles.

ALBUMS


Edward Simon Feat. David Binney, Mark Turner (2), Brian Blade, Diego Urcola, Adam Rogers (2), Scott Colley
Edward Simon
2019, CD, Comp, Red Records (15), GEDI Gruppo Editoriale,
Adam Rogers (2), Fima Ephron, Nate Smith
Dice
2017, CD, Album, Adraj Records
Jeff Herr Corporation Featuring Adam Rogers
Manifesto
2017,
John Patitucci Electric Guitar Quartet Featuring Brian Blade, Adam Rogers (2) And Steve Cardenas
Brooklyn
2015
Adam Rogers (2), David Binney
R&B
2015, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop
Magos Herrera, Tim Hagans, Adam Rogers (2), Luis Perdomo, John Patitucci, Alex Kautz, Rogerio Boccato
México Azul
2011
Adam Rogers
Sight
2009, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop
James Carter (3), John Medeski, Christian McBride, Adam Rogers (2), Joey Baron
Heaven On Earth
2009, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Lothar Kosse, Ralf Gustke, Adam Rogers (2), Justo Almario, Michael Schlierf, Andreas Gundlach, Vinnie Colaiuta, NBA*, Kosho
Play Like David
2008, CD, Comp, Gerth Medien,
Adam Rogers
Time And The Infinite
2007, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz, Criss Cross Jazz, Criss Cross Jazz, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Adam Rogers
Apparitions
2005, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz
Terri Lyne Carrington, Adam Rogers (2), Jimmy Haslip, Greg Osby
Structure
2004, CD, Album, ACT (4),
Adam Rogers
Allegory
2003, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz
Adam Rogers
Art Of The Invisible
2002, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz, Criss Cross Jazz, Criss Cross Jazz, ,
Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz
Geraldo Henrique Bulhões
Quasar
2013, CD, Album, Geraldo Henrique Bulhões
SFJazz Collective
Live: SFJazz Center 2019 (Miles Davis 'In A Silent Way' And Sly & The Family Stone 'Stand!'
2020, CD, Album, Ltd, SFJAZZ Records,
Chris Potter Underground Orchestra
Imaginary Cities
2015, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Chris Potter Underground
Ultrahang
2009, CD, Album, ArtistShare, ,
Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz
Chris Potter Underground
Follow The Red Line - Live At The Village Vanguard
2007, ,
Fusion/Contemporary Jazz
The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project
Simpático
2006, CD, ,
Latin Jazz
Michael Brecker Quindectet
Wide Angles
2003, CD, ,
Post Bop
Alex Sipiagin Quintet
Hindsight
2002, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz, Criss Cross Jazz
Lost Tribe
Many Lifetimes
1998, CD, Album, Arabesque Jazz, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Fusion
Lost Tribe
Soulfish
1994, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Lost Tribe
Letter To The Editor
1993, CD, EP, Promo, Windham Hill Records
Lost Tribe
Lost Tribe
1993, CD, ,
Jazz-Rock/Fusion
Michael Brecker Quindectet
Wide Angles
2003
Lost Tribe
Akwarium 1994
2002, 2xCDr, Unofficial, Pap, OMX

APPEARANCES +


Forq
Forq
2014, CD, Album + DVD-V, Album, GroundUP Music (2), ,
Jazz-Funk/Jazz-Rock/Fusion
Clarence Penn
Behind The Voice
2024, CD, Album, Origin Records, ,
Fusion/Soul-Jazz
Joel Goodman
An Exquisite Moment
2023, LP, Tra, A64, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Fusion/Jazz-Rock/Modal
Joel Goodman
An Exquisite Moment
2023, CD, Album, A64, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Fusion/Jazz-Rock/Modal
Yelena Eckemoff
I Am A Stranger In This World
2022, 2xCD, Album, L & H Production LLC, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Alternative Guitar Summit
Honoring Pat Martino, Volume 1
2022, CD, HighNote Records, Inc.
Oz Noy
Snapdragon
2020, CD, Album, Abstract Logix
Azat Bayazitov
The Doors Are Open
2020, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Bop
Randy Brecker, Ada Rovatti
Sacred Bond - Brecker Plays Rovatti
2019
Philip Bailey
Love Will Find A Way
2019, 2x Vinyl, ,
Soul/Contemporary R&B
Edward Simon With Afinidad & Imani Winds
Sorrows & Triumphs
2018, CD, Album, Sunnyside Communications
Joe Locke
Subtle Disguise
2018, CD, Album, Origin Records, ,
Fusion/Contemporary Jazz/Jazz-Rock
Fima Ephron
Songs From The Tree
2018, CD, Album, Not On Label, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Fusion
Tia Fuller
Diamond Cut
2018
Eric Revis
Sing Me Some Cry
2017, CD, Album, Clean Feed
Yelena Eckemoff Quintet
In The Shadow Of A Cloud
2017, 2xCD, Album, L & H Production
Hogyu "Stiger" Hwang*
Straight, No Chaser
2017, CD, Album, Blue Room Music (2),
Nate Smith
Kinfolk: Postcards From Everywhere
2017, CD,
David Manuhutu
A Journey
2016, CD, Album, Demajors
Various
Jazz Slovenia 2015: Čas Za Improvizacijo / Time To Improvise
2015, 2xCD, Comp + DVD-V, SIGIC,
Alex Sipiagin
Balance 38-58
2015, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Charlie
2015, CD, Album, 5Passion
Randy Brecker
Randy Pop!
2015, ,
Jazz-Rock/Jazz-Funk/Fusion
Antonio Sanchez (2) & Migration
The Meridian Suite
2015, ,
Contemporary Jazz
David Binney
Anacapa
2014, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz
Ada Rovatti
Disguise
2014, CD, Album, Piloo Records & Productions,
Fima Ephron
Quiet City
2014, CD, Album, Not On Label
Jure Pukl
The Life Sound Pictures of Jure Pukl
2014, CD, Album, Fresh Sound New Talent,
Igor Butman & Friends*
Igor Butman And Friends
2014, CD, Album, Butman Music
Regina Carter
Southern Comfort
2014
David Krakauer
Hear The Big Picture
2014,
Various
Tokyo Luxury Lounge / Spring Covers
2013, 2xCD, Comp, Grand Gallery, ,
House/Bossanova/Fusion/Acoustic
John Escreet
Sabotage and Celebration
2013, CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Big Band/Post Bop/Jazz-Funk/Avant-garde Jazz
Randy Brecker
The Brecker Brothers Band Reunion
2013
Monday Michiru
Soulception
2012, CD, Album, Dig, Adventure Music,
Jacám Manricks*
Cloud Nine
2012, CD, Album, Posi-Tone
Jarrard Anthony
Ready To Live
2012, CD, Album, Purpose, ,
Neo Soul/Contemporary R&B/RnB/Swing
Erica Wexler
Sunlit Night
2012, CD, Album, Folly Music, ,
Vocal
Roman Filiu
Musae
2012, CD, Album, Dafnison Music
Clarence Penn
Dali In Cobble Hill
2012, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Marcus Miller
Renaissance
2012, CD, ,
Jazz-Funk/Funk
Various
Best Of Blue Note
2011, 15xCD, Album, Boo + Box, Comp, Blue Note, EMI Music Netherlands, ,
Bop
Feidman*
Deep Notes - The Best Of Bass Clarinet
2011, CD, Comp, pianissimo
Michael Brecker Quindectet
Angel Of Repose / Live In Japan
2011, DVD-V, NTSC, Jazz Door, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Lutz Häfner
Bar Talk With Bela
2011, CD, Album, C.A.R.E.
Pablo Gil
CCS-NYC Jazz Connection
2011, CD, Album, Not On Label, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Monday Michiru
Don't Disturb This Groove
2011,
Ralph Bowen
Due Reverence
2010, CD, Album, Posi-Tone
Regina Carter
Reverse Thread
2010, CD, Album, E1 Entertainment, ,
Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz/Afro-Cuban Jazz
Alex Sipiagin
Generations - Dedicated To Woody Shaw
2010, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz, ,
Post Bop
Various
Artistshare
2010, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz, ,
Hard Bop/Soul-Jazz
Carolyn Leonhart, Wayne Escoffery
Tides Of Yesterday
2010, CD, Album, Savant, ,
Vocal/Ballad/Post Bop
Jesper Dupont
Fly High
2010, CD, Dig, BRO Recordings
Melissa Walker
In The Middle Of It All
2009, CD, Album, Sunnyside, ,
Smooth Jazz
Ada Rovatti
Green Factor
2009, CD, Album, Piloo Records & Productions, ,
Jazz-Rock/Jazz-Funk/Fusion
Ralph Bowen
Dedicated
2009, CD, Album, Posi-Tone
Sean Wayland
Pistachio 2
2009, CDr, Album, Not On Label (Sean Wayland Self-released)
Various
OM:Miami 08
2008, CD, Comp, Mixed, OM Records, ,
Progressive House/House/Tech House
Gary Versace
Outside In
2008, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz, Criss Cross Jazz
Werner* And Vitro*
Delirium Blues Project: Serve Or Suffer
2008, CD, Album, Half Note Records
Grace Kelly
Mood Changes
2008, CD, Album, Pazz Productions,
Arturo O'Farrill & Claudia Acuña
In These Shoes
2008, CD, Album, Zoho, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Afro-Cuban Jazz/Post Bop
Various
Gimme The Night - The Hiram Bullock Tribute Concert
2008, 2xDVD-V, Album, S/Edition, 21st Street Productions, Inc., ,
Electric Blues/Funk/Jazz-Funk/Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Soul-Jazz
Adam Pascal, Larry Edoff, Me and Larry
Blinding Light
2008, CD, Not On Label
Tim Ries
Stones World (The Rolling Stones World Music Project)
2008, CD, Album, Promo, treeLAWN Artists, ,
Fusion/Big Band
Tim Ries
Stones World (The Rolling Stones Project II)
2008, ,
Fusion/Big Band
Various
What Just Happened? (Music From The Motion Picture)
2008, CD, ,
Soundtrack
Monday Michiru
Nexus
2008
Chris Minh Doky
A Jazz Life
2008, 2x CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz
David Binney, Edward Simon
Océanos
2007, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Darrell Grant
Truth And Reconciliation
2007, 2xCD, Album, Origin Records, Lair Hill Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Scott Colley
Architect Of The Silent Moment
2007
Alex Sipiagin
Out Of The Circle
2007,
Monday Michiru
My Ever Changing Moods
2007
Various
Verve Today 2006
2006, CD, Comp, Verve Records, Universal Music Group, ,
Soul-Jazz/Fusion/Smooth Jazz/Funk/Swing
David Binney, Bill Frisell, Craig Taborn, Eivind Opsvik, Kenny Wollesen
Out Of Airplanes
2006, CD, Album, Mythology Records
Kenji Ozawa
Ecology Of Everyday Life 毎日の環境学
2006, CD, Album, Eastworld, ,
Future Jazz/Downtempo
Taylor Haskins
Metaview
2006, CD, Album, Fresh Sound New Talent
Chris Potter
Underground
2006, CD, ,
Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz
Ada Rovatti
Airbop
2006, ,
Free Jazz/Smooth Jazz
Malene Mortensen
Malene
2006
John Patitucci
Line By Line
2006
Marek Niedźwiecki
Smooth Jazz Cafe 7
2005, CD, Comp, Universal Music Polska, ,
Smooth Jazz
Various
Verve Today 2005
2005, CD, Comp, Verve Records, Universal, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Dennis Chambers
Planet Earth
2005, CD, Album, BHM Productions
Salvatore Bonafede
For The Time Being
2005, CD, Album, C.A.M. Jazz, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop
Alex Sipiagin
Returning
2005, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz, Criss Cross Jazz, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop
Edward Simon
Simplicitas
2005, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz, Criss Cross Jazz
Alana Davis
Surrender Dorothy
2005
Various
Om:10 (A Decade Of Future Music V.3 Classics)
2005, ,
House/Deep House/Garage House
Brooke Valentine
Chain Letter
2005, CD, ,
Contemporary R&B/Crunk
Chiara Civello
Last Quarter Moon
2005, ,
Smooth Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Easy Listening/Downtempo/Synth-pop/Latin Jazz
Various
Magic Moments ² - The Ultimate ACT World Jazz Anthology Vol. VII
2004, CD, Comp, ACT (4), ACT (4),
Erin Bode
Don´t Take Your Time
2004, CD, Album, Enh, MAXJAZZ
Monday Michiru
Naked Breath
2004, CD, Album, ArtistShare
David Binney
Welcome To Life
2004, CD, Album, Mythology Records
Søren Sko
One For My Baby
2004, CD, Album, CMC, Noiz Music,
Erin Bode
Don´t Take Your Time
2004, CD, Promo, MAXJAZZ, ,
Cool Jazz
Matthew Garrison
Shapeshifter
2004, CD, Album, GarrisonJazz Productions, GarrisonJazz Productions
Chiara Civello
Chiara Civello EP
2004, CD, EP, Promo, Verve Records
Various
Great Jewish Music: Jacob Do Bandolim
2004, CD,
Angelina*
Muse
2004, ,
J-pop
Alex Sipiagin
Mirrors
2003, CD, Album, Criss Cross Jazz, Criss Cross Jazz
Josh Roseman Unit
Treats For The Nightwalker
2003, CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Lea Delaria
Double Standards
2003, CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Lizz Wright
Salt
2003, ,
Soul-Jazz/Smooth Jazz/Ballad/Vocal/Acoustic
Monday Michiru
Episodes In Color
2002, CD, Album, SAR (3)
David Binney
Balance
2002, CD, Album, ACT (4)
Scott Colley
Initial Wisdom
2002, CD, Album, Palmetto Records
Bird
極上ハイブリッド
2002, CD, Album, Ltd, SAR (3), ,
J-pop
Clarence Penn
Saomaye
2002, CD, Album, Verve Records,
Kengo Nakamura
Say Hello To Say Goodbye
2002, CD, Album, Verve Records,
Chris Potter
Traveling Mercies
2002, CD, ,
Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz
Mingus Big Band Introducing The Charles Mingus Orchestra*
Tonight At Noon... Three Or Four Shades Of Love
2002, ,
Post Bop/Big Band
Randy Brecker
34th N Lex
2002, ,
Fusion/Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Jazz/Cool Jazz
Norah Jones
Come Away With Me
2002, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Norah Jones
Turn Me On
2002, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Various
Global Magic
2001, CD, Comp, ACT (4), ,
Contemporary Jazz
Fima Ephron
Soul Machine
2001, CD, Album, Tzadik, ,
Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Contemporary Jazz
David Binney
South
2001, CD, Album, ACT (4)
David Binney, Edward Simon
Afinidad
2001, CD, Album, Red Records (15)
Naked Music NYC
Reconstructed Soul
2001, ,
House/Downtempo
Michael Philip Mossman
The Orisha Suite
2001
Naked Music NYC
Reconstructed Soul 1 Of 3
2001, ,
House/Future Jazz/Deep House
Naked Music NYC
Reconstructed Soul 3 Of 3
2001, ,
House/Deep House
Alana Davis
Fortune Cookies
2001
Simon Shaheen & Qantara
Blue Flame
2001, ,
Fusion
Paul Ruderman
Wish
2001
Naked Music NYC
Reconstructed Soul 2 Of 3
2001, ,
House/Deep House
Norah Jones
First Sessions
2001, ,
Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Jazz
TOKU
Bewitching
2001,
Randy Brecker
Hangin' In The City
2001
Tony Falanga
Soul Of The Bass
2000, CD, pläne,
Matthew Garrison
Matthew Garrison
2000, CD, Album, GarrisonJazz Productions
Chris Minh Doky
Listen Up!
2000
Monday Michiru
4Seasons
2000, 2x CD Slipcase, ,
House
Vitamin C
More
2000, ,
Bubblegum/Pop Rock
Carter Burwell
Hamlet (Original Score From The Miramax Motion Picture)
2000, ,
Score/Soundtrack
Zohar
Keter
1999, CD, Album, Knitting Factory Records, ,
Fusion
Feidman*
Journey
1999, CD, Album, pläne, ,
Fusion
Bill Evans
Touch
1999, ,
Fusion/Jazz-Funk/Soul-Jazz
Jacky Terrasson
What It Is
1999, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop
Phillip Johnston
Music For Films
1998, CD, Album, Tzadik, ,
Soundtrack/Score
Norman Yamada
Being And Time
1998, CD, Album, Tzadik
Alexander Sipiagin*
Images
1998, CD, Album, TCB Records (2)
David Binney
Free To Dream
1998, CD, Album, Mythology Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Naked Music NYC
What's On Your Mind?
1998, ,
Downtempo/Trip Hop
Various
Hip Bop 'N' Funk
1998
Sanne Salomonsen With Chris Minh Doky Quartet
In A New York Minute
1998, ,
Fusion
Michael "Patches" Stewart
Penetration
1998
New York Voices
New York Voices Sing The Songs Of Paul Simon
1998, ,
Vocal
David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness!
Klezmer, NY
1998, ,
Klezmer
Frank London
The Debt
1997, CD, Album, Tzadik, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Soundtrack
Randy Brecker
Into The Sun
1997
Feidman*
Klezmer Celebration
1997
Naked Music NYC
It's Love
1997, Vinyl, ,
House/Deep House
Bill Evans
Starfish & The Moon
1997, ,
Smooth Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Easy Listening
Сёстры Роуз*
Бродяга
1996, CD, Album, STAS Music
Michael Callen
Legacy
1996, 2xCD, Album, Significant Other Records,
Feidman*
To You!
1996, CD, Comp, Pläne
Groove Collective
We The People
1996, ,
House/Acid Jazz/Future Jazz
Various
שטייגערס = Shteygers = Ways (New Klezmer Music 1991-1994)
1995, CD, Comp, Trikont, ,
Klezmer
The Tango Kings
The Tango Kings
1995, CD, Album, Big World Music, ,
Tango
Various
Jazz Masters
1995,
John Zorn
John Zorn's Cobra Live At The Knitting Factory
1995, CD, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation
Mike Mainieri Presents Various
Come Together: Guitar Tribute To The Beatles Vol. 2
1995, CD, ,
Fusion/Contemporary Jazz/Prog Rock
Bill Evans (3) & Push
Live In Europe
1995, ,
Jazz-Funk/Pop Rap/Fusion
David Krakauer
Klezmer Madness!
1995, ,
Gypsy Jazz/Folk/Klezmer
Dreamtime
Dreamtime
1994, CD, Album, Fibre Records (2)
Lost Tribe (3), Wayne Horvitz & Pig Pen*, Piotr Wojtasik Quintet, Christian Escoudé Trio
A-003
1994, CD, Jazz Á Go-go
Ron Thaler
...Works
1994, CD, Album, TP Records (6)
Walter Becker
11 Tracks Of Whack
1994, ,
Jazz-Rock/Pop Rock
Feidman* And The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra Conducted By David Shallon
In Jerusalem
1994
Various
The Bach Variations (A Windham Hill Sampler)
1994, ,
New Age/Baroque
Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble
Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble
1993, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Rise Robots Rise
Spawn
1993,
Giora Feidman
Klassic Klezmer
1993, ,
Klezmer
Branford Marsalis, Mel Gibson
David And Goliath
1992, CD, Album, Rabbit Ears Productions, ,
Story
Giora Feidman
The Dance Of Joy
1992
Giora Feidman
Gershwin & The Klezmer
1991, ,
Klezmer
Dave Binney*
Point Game
1990, ,
Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Jazz
Various
The Beatles Melodies
2015, CD, Promo, U-Can
Various
Freeway Jam To Beck And Back
2007, CD, Album, Seven Seas, ,
Prog Rock/Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Hard Rock
Various
Freeway Jam To Beck And Back
2007, ,
Prog Rock/Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Hard Rock
Various
Guitarras Del Jazz Contemporáneo En la Fnac
2001, CD, Comp, fnac.es, ,
Fusion/Smooth Jazz
Michael Brecker
Montreal Jazz Festival 2001
2021, 6xCDr, RM, Unofficial, Stargazer's File,
Philip Bailey
Love Will Find A Way
2019, CD, ,
Soul/Contemporary R&B
Regina Carter
Southern Comfort
2014, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Country Blues
Walter Becker
11 Tracks Of Whack
2011, ,
Soft Rock/Pop Rock
Norah Jones
Come Away With Me
2002, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Mike Mainieri Presents Various
Come Together: Guitar Tribute To The Beatles Vol. 2
1999, CD, ,
Fusion/Contemporary Jazz/Prog Rock
Michael Brecker Quartet
Cambridge 2002
2xCDr, Unofficial, Monodisc
James Carter (3), John Medeski, Christian McBride, Adam Rogers (2), Joey Baron
Heaven On Earth
,
Contemporary Jazz
Vitamin C
More + Bonus Tracks
CD, ,
Bubblegum/Pop Rock