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Ben Rosenblum

Internationally-touring, award-winning New York City jazz pianist, accordionist and composer.  Click on the button below to view a full schedule, scroll down to the blog to find new updates and information, or learn more about Ben's career here.

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The Longest Way Round - New Album To Be Released In 2026!

12/26/2025

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​Hi everyone!

Wow - it's been an absolutely wonderful year of touring, performing, recording and composing. I'm so grateful to the amazing bandleaders who have taken me on the road, and to my incredible band members who have joined me on my adventures. Thank you all so much, and looking forward to many more travels in 2026.
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To end 2025 on a high note, I wanted to officially announce that my next Nebula Project album, The Longest Way Round, will be released in February 2026! I can’t wait to share this music! It will be my first album that is entirely my original compositions, including a three-part suite, and it features all the regular members of the band in addition to the amazing Gustavo Di Dalva and Brad Dutz on auxiliary percussion. You can read more about it on my website's dedicated page to the album. I'll also be updating this link with reviews, links to streaming and purchase and more.

The official release date is February 27, 2026. The day before, we'll be doing our CD release party at Smalls in New York City, and we have performances with the Nebula Project already on the schedule in Miami and Philadelphia in the next few months - check my schedule page for links. We're hoping to do a lot more with the Nebula Project in 2026-2027 so stay tuned for the latest!

Here's the first single from the album, which was released last week. Hope you enjoy!
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2025 so far - US, Canada, Japan and much more to come!

7/3/2025

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Hey everyone! I wanted to make a quick post at the halfway point of the year to reflect on all of the incredible experiences I've already had this year, and to look forward to the many exciting tours on the schedule for the rest of the year. I can honestly say that this year will be the most traveling I've ever done in a calendar year, and many of these trips have been and will be to places I've never had the chance to go before. It's been such a rich and fulfilling year already, and I wanted to post some photos from the last six months of touring. These photos are from tours with my various bands, as well as with Rickie Lee Jones, Catherine Russell, Laura Anglade and Brenda Bufalino.
Looking ahead to the rest of the year, I begin traveling again in August, with stops all over the US (West Coast, East Coast, South, Great Plains and Midwest), as well as in Bulgaria, Japan and Spain. Visit my schedule page for the most up-to-date information, and for links to purchase tickets. Thank you all so much for your support always! It means so much to me.
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With Rickie Lee Jones at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, June 2025.
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Ben Rosenblum Trio with Peter Slavov and Ben Zweig. February 2025, Lancaster, SC.
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At the Blue Door in Oklahoma City with Laura Anglade Quartet, January 2025.
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Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project at Tyrant Studios in Vancouver. March 2025.
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Performing at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City with Brenda Bufalino. April 2025.
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With Catherine Russell at the Blue Note Tokyo. April 2025.
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Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project at AngraJazz 2024! And Other Recent Highlights!

10/10/2024

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Hi everyone! I just got back from an amazing trip to Terceira Island in the Azores, where my large ensemble, the Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project, was a headlining artist at AngraJazz 2024! It was an absolutely magical couple of days, and I wanted to share a few photos from the event below. The local TV station, RTP Açores, also did a great feature on the band, featuring footage from the concert and an interview with me. You can view that on their Facebook page here, or on their website here. (Bottom right two photos courtesy of Rui Caria).
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It's been a while since my last update post, but I'm happy to report that I've been as busy as I can ever remember! I recently updated my about page to reflect some recent developments, including a number of tours in 2023 and 2024 with one of my childhood heroes, Rickie Lee Jones! I've been very fortunate to join for concerts across the United States, as well as two tours in Europe and one tour in Australia. The photos below are from our performance at Prospect Park Bandshell in 2023 (courtesy of Vivian Wang, @lithophyte).
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Click the about tab for more information about recent projects and performances, or follow me on Instagram @benrosenblummusic for highlights and future events. I've also recently added a shop to my website where you can purchase CDs and merchandise directly from me, and a partial list of the albums that I've played on under "discography." We've recorded the next Nebula Project album, so stay tuned for more information about the release in 2025.
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Featured Article in Downbeat Magazine!

4/6/2023

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I'm beyond honored that my most recent album with the Nebula Project, A Thousand Pebbles, was featured in Downbeat Magazine alongside an interview I did with the amazing Josef Woodard. Thank you so much to everyone involved with the project. We have some really exciting performances and recordings in the works, so I hope you'll continue to join us as we embark on this journey with the large ensemble! Click here to read the article on Downbeat's website.
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Click here to learn more about the album, see other reviews and find links to listen to and purchase the recording.
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A Thousand Pebbles - New Nebula Project Album!

1/5/2023

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Hey everyone!

I'm super excited to announce that my album, A Thousand Pebbles, was released this February on Friday, February 10th! This is my fourth album as a leader and the second with my six piece ensemble, the Nebula Project, featuring some of my absolute favorite musicians in New York City: Wayne Tucker on trumpet and flugelhorn, Jasper Dutz on alto saxophone, bass clarinet and alto flute, special guest Xavier Del Castillo on tenor saxophone and flute, Rafael Rosa on guitar, Marty Jaffe on bass and Ben Zweig on drums and percussion. The album is almost entirely my original compositions, ranging from straight ahead jazz to Brazilian forró to Irish jigs to Bulgarian folkloric styles. It features both the piano and accordion prominently, including multiple tracks where I play both.
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Click here to learn more about the album and read the press release, which includes a lot more detail about the inspiration behind the songs. The link above will also contain more information on how to purchase the album, both physically and digitally. A huge thanks goes out to everyone who was part of this album, especially my family who went above and beyond as always to help make this possible. Read below for the special thanks from the record.

​​Click the following links to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, or YouTube.
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2022 Update!

5/17/2022

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Hey everyone! It's been a while since I posted an update, but I have a lot of exciting projects in the works so I just wanted to make a quick post with some upcoming news and photos.

Firstly, I have a new Nebula Project album coming out later this year! I had so much fun with the sextet on my most recent album, Kites and Strings, that I went back and recorded another one this past summer. The new album will be almost exclusively original compositions (in addition to one Jobim tune), and features an expanded septet format featuring special guest Xavier Del Castillo on tenor sax, in addition to our core band of Wayne Tucker on trumpet, Jasper Dutz on alto sax and bass clarinet, Rafael Rosa on guitar, Marty Jaffe on bass and Ben Zweig on drums. Looking forward to sharing more info about the release soon! I'm so excited about this project - The Nebula Project was recently voted runner up on JazzTimes' Readers Poll in 2020, and recently we've been able to begin touring. We just came back from a multi-day trip in the Northeast this past weekend and we have more in the works.
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With the trio, I've also been getting back to a full-time touring schedule. We did multi-week tours in the South and West Coast in 2022, and I made it over to Europe late last year to do some playing as well. Over the summer, I'll be doing a Northeast US and Canada tour with the amazing singer Laura Anglade, and beginning in the Fall I have a number of tours in the works with both the trio and the sextet. I've also been fortunate to participate in some new groups as a sideman in the past year, including the incredible Ephrat Asherie and her dance company as well as Juno award-winning Indian vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia, in addition to the many beautiful groups I've been playing with for years. As always you can visit my schedule page for the latest updates on where I'll be when. And if you would like to receive an email once a month with the most recent news, feel free to visit my contact page to sign up for my newsletter.
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New Trio Videos from Southeast Tour 2021!

3/15/2021

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Hi everyone! It's been a little while since I've posted, but I hope everything has been going all right for all of you. We were incredibly fortunate recently that we got to go on a tour for the first time in a year. One of our shows at Timucua Arts Foundation was recorded and filmed, and I've shared my favorite songs on my YouTube channel. You can see all five videos in the players below. Timucua is an incredible place, and we definitely hope to be back soon! If you want to support them, visit this link and scroll down to the bottom of the page for the donate button. These videos featured two of my absolute favorite musicians - the amazing Eduardo Belo on bass and Ben Zweig on drums. I'm playing piano on most of them, but I switch to the accordion for Jacob do Bandolim's classic choro, Receita de Samba.
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Third Album, Kites and Strings, to be Released on October 16, 2020!

7/12/2020

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I'm so happy to announce that my third album as a leader, Kites and Strings, is set to be released on October 16!  This album is the debut of my new sextet, the Nebula Project, and features mostly original compositions (with a few eclectic arrangements thrown in - Neil Young, Leonard Bernstein and a Bulgarian traditional song).  It is also the first album where you can hear me playing both piano and accordion!  Listen and learn more about the album here, or continue reading below for some videos and personal thoughts.
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The journey of this album is a long one - it started ten years ago in my last year of high school, when I completed the first larger ensemble version of one of the tracks on the album, Bright Above Us, and it includes compositions, arrangements and re-arrangements written across this whole span of time.  It is an album that merges my deep love of both jazz and world music styles, and features many of my favorite musicians in New York City.  This includes my long-time regular touring trio with Marty Jaffe on bass and Ben Zweig on drums, as well as the incredible Wayne Tucker on trumpet, Jasper Dutz on sax and bass clarinet and Rafael Rosa on guitar.  It also features special guest appearances by Jake Chapman on vibraphone, Sam Chess on trombone and fellow pianist Jeremy Corren performing on two of the tracks that I play accordion on.  Watching these musicians bring my music to life was such a special experience - after so many years waiting to record these compositions, I felt that I could finally express them in the way I imagined them.  Since then, I've been working with my brother Dev Avidon who recorded, mixed and mastered the whole project so incredibly beautifully and guided it through the entire process to completion, and my mom who took the gorgeous cover and back photos and imagined the art for the whole project.  I'm really proud of the work that went into this album, and I hope you'll all have a chance to listen to it soon!

If you want to hear a preview of the album, click on the link above.  I'm also including four Youtube videos taken by Kevin Jiang at our most recent live performance at the Kitano.  These videos feature many of the musicians that are on the album and two of the songs (Somewhere and Laughing on the Inside) that are on the album.  Thank you so much to everyone who has supported this project and I can't wait to share this music with all of you live.
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March 2020: The Last Eight Months in Pictures

3/20/2020

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Hey everyone!

So much has happened since my last blog post.  Scrolling back through my pictures has brought up so many wonderful memories, whether traveling overseas or performing here in New York City.  It is a particularly uncertain time right now.  Sadly my tour with Gabriela Martina in Switzerland had to be postponed due to the current pandemic, and it is unclear when live performances will resume.  But at the very least, being in self-isolation gives me time to share a little bit about all the positive experiences I've had recently, and look forward to many things to come once the virus is past.  Best wishes to everyone reading this to stay safe and healthy!
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One of the most exciting developments is that I have been performing with my new sextet, the Nebula Project. I mentioned in my most recent blog post that a new sextet album is on the way. The album is making great progress and is set to be released in the late summer, so stay tuned for the latest on this. In the meantime, I debuted the group with performances at the Jazz at 5 festival in Madison, Wisconsin (above) as well as at the Puffin Cultural Forum and in NYC at Jazz at Kitano (right).
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I have continued a full touring schedule with my trio.  In addition to tours in the West Coast (June), Midwest (August and February) and Canada (October), we did our longest tour yet this past January and February, when we spent three and a half weeks touring in the Southern US.  There were so many incredible highlights from this trip, including a TV appearance in Jacksonville on the Morning Show at News4Jax (pictured above) and over twenty shows and three educational appearances throughout the area.  The picture below is from our appearance in Orlando, where we also got to work with students at UCF - thanks so much Sandy for the beautiful pictures from this performance!
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I have also continued to work as a sideman with Curtis Lundy, Astrid Kuljanic, Gabriela Martina, Pat Bartley (whose YouTube channel J-Music Ensemble is starting to gain some significant publicity - I'm in the playlist linked, which features our acoustic renditions of video game music) and many others, and my travels have taken me to so many beautiful places around the world.  Over the summer, I spent three weeks in Croatia, Italy and Switzerland (the last of which I got to perform in as a leader with some wonderful local musicians).  While I was there I also took some time off to compose new material for the trio and the sextet, some of which we have been able to debut in our recent performances.  I also had the unique and amazing experience of subbing on accordion for the Off-Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, doing twenty performances between October to December.  Below are some pictures - the Colosseum in Pula, the church overlooking Lake Geneva, backstage at Fiddler, a performance with bagpipe in Cres, hiking in Quebec at Lake Gatineau, performing with Curtis Lundy in New Jersey, and finally at home in NYC, both at the Black Cat LES with Pat Barley and at Smalls.
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I can't wait to share some music with all of you once the self-isolation is over and live music begins again.  Until then, stay well and I look forward to seeing you soon.  All the best!
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Mid-year 2019 Update

6/29/2019

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Hey everyone!

It's been a little while since I posted anything.  This year has been filled with a number of incredibly special experiences and adventures, and I've been meaning to put together a quick post with some pictures and highlights.  So far in 2019, here's what has happened:

  • Five tours under my name/with my trio, including two on the West Coast, one in the South, one in Canada/Northeast US and one in Japan!  These tours featured workshops and concerts at the University of Tampa, College of Charleston and UC-Santa Barbara, performances for multiple jazz societies, including the San Luis Obispo Jazz Society and the Coastal Jazz Association, shows at small intimate house concert venues and at concert halls with 250+ people, and much more.
  • I recorded tracks for my new album, Kites and Strings, which will be released in early 2020.  This is a new project entitled the "Nebula Project," which features a sextet of some of my favorite musicians in New York City, as well as me on piano and accordion.  I'm so excited to share this music once it is ready to be released!
  • Appearances as a sideman in some amazing venues, such as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. (with Astrid Kuljanic), the Lancaster Cultural Arts Center (with Paul Sanwald Quartet) and the Side Door (with Curtis Lundy).  Astrid's show at the Kennedy Center can be live streamed at this link.
  • Regular appearances at Smalls/Mezzrow late night with Ben Zweig, as well as a monthly video game music jam session alongside Patrick Bartley.
  • Leader appearances in New York City at Mezzrow and the Kitano, as well as a whole bunch of awesome shows in New York and throughout the Northeast.

I'm so lucky to be able to travel the world with some of my favorite musicians and closest friends, and to have met so many supporters of the music whom I have befriended throughout my tours.  These people mean so much to be and make playing and performing on the road so worthwhile.  I can't wait to see you all again soon.  Thanks so much to all of you, and see you all in the second half of 2019!
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    2026:

    January 2026: Ben Rosenblum Trio - Southeast US Tour

       Tuesday, January 20th: Private event (Naples, FL)
       Wednesday, January 21st: Marco Island Center for the Arts (Marco Island, FL). More info.
       Thursday, January 22nd: University of Tampa (Tampa, FL). More info.
       Friday, January 23rd: In Concert Apalachicola (Apalachicola, FL). More info.
       Saturday, January 24th: The Sound Wall (Opelika, AL). More info.
       Sunday, January 25th: St. Mary's on the Highlands (Birmingham, AL). More info.
       Monday, January 26th: Rudy's Jazz Room (Nashville, TN). More info.
       Thursday, January 29th: HART Theatre (Waynesville, NC) (masterclass on January 28th). More info.
       Friday, January 30th: Lancaster Cultural Arts Center (Lancaster, SC). More info.
       Saturday, January 31st: Grace Concert Series (Richmond, VA). More info.
       Sunday, February 1st: Le Mondo (Baltimore, MD). More info.

    February 3-6: Rickie Lee Jones West Coast Tour

       Tuesday, February 3rd and Wednesday, February 4th: Bimbos 365 Club (San Francisco, CA). More info.
       Friday, February 6th and Saturday, February 7th at 7:30pm: The Wallis (Los Angeles, CA). More info.

    February 11-23: Trip to Japan! Details to be announced

    Thursday, February 26th at 9 and 10:30:
    Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project at Smalls (Manhattan: West Village). More info.

    Sunday, March 1st at 3:30-5:30pm

    Regional Samaúma at Barbes (Brooklyn: Park Slope). More info.
    Sunday, March 1st:
    Ben Sutin Purim Celebration at Shapeshifter Lab (Brooklyn: Park Slope). More info.
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    March 5-8: California Mini-Tour

       Thursday, March 5th: The Sound Room (Oakland, CA). More info.
    ​   Friday, March 6th: Community School of Music and Arts (Mountain View, CA) - with Astrid Kuljanic. More info.
       Saturday, March 7th: Soper Reese Theatre (Lakeport, CA)
     - with Astrid Kuljanic
       Sunday, March 8th: Soper Reese Theatre - Pianist Benefit Concert


    Thursday, March 12th:
    Deborah Davis at Mezzrow (Manhattan: West Village)
    Saturday, March 14th:
    Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project at Pinecrest Gardens (Miami, FL). More info.
    Sunday, March 15th:
    Ben Rosenblum Trio at First UMC of Sarasota (Sarasota, FL). More info.

    March 20-22: Laura Anglade Texas Tour

       Friday, March 20th: Arcadia Live (Kerrville, TX). More info.
       Saturday, March 21st: Monks (Austin, TX)
       Sunday, March 22nd: Marvin Methodist Church (Tyler, TX). More info.

    Friday, March 27th at 7:30pm:
    Catherine Russell at Shalin Liu Performance Center (Rockport, MA). More info.
    Saturday March 28th:
    Catherine Russell at Caffe Lena, Peak Jazz Series (Saratoga Springs, NY). More info.

    Saturday, April 4th:
    Guest Masterclass for the Regional Samaúma Choro Class
    Sunday, April 5th at 3:30-5:30pm:

    Regional Samaúma at Barbes (Brooklyn: Park Slope):
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    April 10-16: Northeast Tour with Kiran Ahluwalia (more shows TBA)

       Sunday, April 12th: Strand Center for the Arts (Plattsburgh, NY). More info.
       Wednesday, April 15th: Alexander Twilight Theatre (Lyndon, VT)
       Thursday, April 16th: Dibden Center for the Arts (Johnson, VT)
       Friday, April 17th: Spirit (Pittsburgh, PA)

    Friday, May 1st:
    Rickie Lee Jones at New Orleans JazzFest. More info.

    May 7-11: Tour with Kiran Ahluwalia (details TBA)

       Sunday, May 10th: Appearance in Henderson, NV (details TBA)

    May 25-30: UK Tour with Rickie Lee Jones!

       Monday, May 25th: The Gate (Cardiff, UK). More info.
       Tuesday, May 26th: Barbican Centre (London, UK). More info.
       Wednesday, May 27th: The Apex (Bury St. Edmunds, UK). More info.
       Friday, May 29th: Warwick Arts Centre (Coventry, UK). More info.
       Saturday, May 30th: Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK). More info.

    Sunday, June 7th:
    Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project at Abington Presbyterian Church (Abington, PA). More info.
    Thursday, June 11th at 4pm:
    Ben Rosenblum Trio at Flushing Library: Music from Movies and Anime of East Asia (Queens: Flushing). More info.

    Thursday, August 20th:
    Ben Rosenblum Trio at the Georgia Straight Jazz Society (Comox, BC). More info.

    2027:

    January 2027: Ben Rosenblum Southeast US Tour (dates TBA)
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       Tuesday, January 26th: Tuesdays Live (Augusta, GA)

    February 2027: Ben Rosenblum Midwest US Tour (dates TBA)

       Saturday, February 20th: Appearance in Michigan (TBA)

    March 2027: Ben Rosenblum West Coast Tour (dates TBA)

       Sunday, March 14th: Marine View Presbyterian Church (Tacoma, WA)

    ben Rosenblum

    Award-winning New York City jazz pianist and accordionist Ben Rosenblum has been described as “mature beyond his years,” (Sea of Tranquility), an “impressive talent” (All About Jazz), who “caresses [the music] with the reverence it merits” (Downbeat Magazine). Since the release of his debut trio album, Instead (4 stars, Downbeat), Rosenblum has toured extensively with his trio and sextet throughout the United States, including multiple trips to the Northeast, Midwest, South and West Coast, and internationally  in Canada, Europe and Japan. He was a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall's Stern-Perelman Auditorium (with Reona Ito's New York Harmonic Band) and has appeared at prestigious venues throughout the world, including at the Appel Room at Lincoln Center, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Ravinia, Himawari-No-Sato Concert Hall in Yokohama, Bird's Eye in  Basel and the Library of Congress. Rosenblum's second trio album in 2018, River City, was called “richly romantic” and “well-realized” by JAZZIZ Magazine, which featured the title track as part of their Best of Fall 2018 CD. Most recently, Rosenblum released his third album, Kites and Strings, which is the first to feature him on both piano and accordion alongside his new sextet, the Nebula Project. In 2020, the Nebula Project was voted runner-up for Best New Artist in JazzTimes' Readers' Poll. Rosenblum has been privileged to share the stage with many highly acclaimed jazz musicians, including extensive work with Curtis Lundy, Winard Harper, Deborah Davis and Chris Washburne, as well as appearances with Bobby Watson, Sean Jones, TS Monk, Warren Wolf, Eliot Zigmund, and many others. Rosenblum's musical interests also extend beyond jazz to include work in numerous world music scenes, including musical styles from Brazil, Peru, Croatia, Bulgaria, India, Ireland, Jewish traditions and more.

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