Adam Rogers

A native New Yorker, Adam Rogers has been the go-to guitarist for some of the biggest names in jazz, pop and world music-Michael Brecker, Joe Jackson, Cassandra Wilson, Walter Becker, Chris Potter, John Zorn, The Gil Evans Orchestra, The Mingus Orchestra, Norah Jones, Paul Simon, John Patitucci, The SFJazz collective, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, George Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, Brian Blade, Kenny Barron, Marcus Miller, Regina Carter, Phillip Bailey, Christian Mcbride and Billy Childs to name a few.

Since May 2022 Adam has been a touring member of Steely Dan.
He has participated in more than two hundred and fifty albums and toured extensively as a leader and sideman in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, South America, the Middle East and Russia.

He has received praise from Downbeat, The New York Times, The Boston globe, The Village Voice, Jazz Times, Jazziz, Newsweek, Jazz Hot, All about Jazz, and The Chicago Sun Times, as well as numerous other periodicals around the world.

Adam led the innovative and acclaimed group “Lost Tribe.” The group has released three albums.
He was also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra’s rhythm section in the premieres of Terrence Blanchard’s operas “Fire Shut Up In My Bones” in 2021 and “Champion” in 2023, as well as a soloist with the Dresden Symphony Orchestra in 1999 and performed with New York’s Public Theater and Great Lakes Theater Company