Roger Lin

is a guitarist/composer based in Brooklyn, New York. He released his debut album “Whisper of the Isolated Ones” in 2019,, featuring Phil Grenadier on trumpet, Ryosuke Tsutsui on piano, Soso Gelovani on bass, and Nick Groat on drums. The release was soon recognized by his homeland Taiwan, nominated for The Best Jazz Album and The Best Jazz Composition for the 12th Golden Indie Music Award, the highest award for jazz category in the country.

In 2023, Roger releases his new work “Exploitation Suite”, recorded in Brooklyn New York, featuring Chaz Martineau, Isaac Levien, Quinton Cain, Moshe Elmakias, Simon Willson, and Willis Edmundson. The record receives a 4-star review by All About Jazz. Neil Duggan writes “richness and variety in the musical texture which promotes repeated listens” and “slow-burning album builds up a mosaic of elegant and contemporary arrangements which has much to recommend it”.

Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Roger began his musical journey at the age of 5 when he started playing piano. Being heavily drawn to harmonic instruments, he got deeply interested in the guitars at 14, where he could explore and express harmonies he learned on the piano with different textures. 10 years later, his co-led jazz band won 2nd prize of the New Talent Competition affiliated to Taichung Jazz Festival in 2014, the largest annual jazz festival in Taiwan. In 2019, Roger finished his music education with a scholarship from Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied with jazz masters such as Mick Goodrick, George Garzone, Ian Froman and many others.

Roger has been actively performing and recording as a leader and sideman in U.S and Asia. He has toured in the U.S and Taiwan with different groups. He’s a regular at Taiwan’s iconic jazz venues such as Bluenote Taipei, Sappho Live Jazz, and Jazzhead. In 2022, he toured the US east coast with Marcelo Maccagnan trio, and performed at the Rochester Fringe Festival, the largest multidisciplinary art festival in New York state. When not travelling, Roger leads his newest projects in Brooklyn and Harlem’s local clubs.