Greg Osby (born in St. Louis, Missouri on 3 August 1960) is a jazz saxophonist who plays mainly in the Free jazz, Free funk and M-Base idiom. He studied at the Berklee College of Music. He played on Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition, and has recorded with Steve Coleman, Jim Hall and Andrew Hill (setting the stage for Hill and Hall's later appearance on Osby's The Invisible Hand). He began recording albums under his own name for JMT Records in the 1980s, but his most celebrated work has been a run of records for Blue Note. Like Coleman, Osby likes to discover fresh talent and give players a chance to grow within his own band: he was responsible for giving exposure to the young pianist Jason Moran, who appeared on most of Osby's 1990s albums (including the live album Banned in New York and an experiment with adding a string quartet to the band, Symbols of Light). Osby has contributed to the homages to Miles Davi

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