Third Album, Kites and Strings, to be Released on October 16, 2020!

7/12/2020

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.

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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2023:

January 13th at 9:30pm-1:30am
Forró Party at Beija Flor (Queens: Long Island City)
January 17th at 9:30pm-midnight
Choro at St. Tuesday (Manhattan: Tribeca)

January 19th-February 5th: Ben Rosenblum Trio Southern Tour !!

Thursday, January 19th, 7pm: Kershaw County Arts Center (Camden, SC). More info.
Friday, January 20th, 6:30pm: Lancaster Cultural Arts Center (Lancaster, SC). More info.
Saturday, January 21st, 7:30pm: Chatt Hills Music (Chattahoochee Hills, GA - near Atlanta). More info. SOLD OUT
Sunday, January 22nd, 4pm: Gainesville First UMC (Gainesville, GA). More info.
Tuesday, January 24th, noon: Tuesdays Live (Augusta, GA). More info.
Wednesday, January 25th, 7pm: Steinway Carolina (Greenville, SC) - solo piano! RSVP Required - email Katherine Love at klove@steinwaycarolina.com
Thursday, January 26th, 6pm: Orangeburg County Arts Center Winter Gala (Orangeburg, SC). More info.
Friday, January 27th, 7pm: Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church (Charleston, SC). More info.
Saturday, January 28th, 7pm: The Hub on Canal (New Smyrna Beach, FL). More info.
Sunday, January 29th, 4pm: Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (Gainesville, FL). More info.
Tuesday, January 31st, 5:30pm: Marco Island Center for the Arts (Marco Island, FL). More info.
Wednesday, February 1st, 7pm: Alliance for the Arts (Fort Myers, FL). More info.
Thursday, February 2nd, 5:30pm: Highland Library (Highland Beach, FL). More info.
Friday, February 3rd, 7:30pm: The Blue Door (Brunswick, GA). More info.
Sunday, February 5th, 3pm: Trinity United Methodist Church (Durham, NC). More info.

Wednesday, February 8th at 8pm-11pm
Ben Zweig's Big Beet at Radegast (Brooklyn: Williamsburg)
Thursday, February 9th at 6-7pm
Ben Rosenblum and Friends Carnaval Celebration with Cesar Garibini. Flushing Library (Queens: Flushing). More info.
Sunday, February 12th at 7pm
Appearance with Rafael Piccolotto de Lima's Forro Sem Palavras at La Nacional (Manhattan: West Village). More info.
Tuesday, February 14th at 9:30pm
Choro at St. Tuesday (Manhattan: Tribeca)
Wednesday, February 15th at 8pm
Jasper Dutz Ballads Project at Jane Ives Studio (Manhattan: SoHo). Tickets.
Saturday, February 18th:
The University of Bucknell Presents: Ephrat Asherie Dance at the Weis Center Concert Hall (Lewisburg, PA). More info.

February 21st-26th: Ben Rosenblum Midwest Tour !!

Tuesday, February 21st: Moriarty's (Lansing, MI) - special appearance with Jeff Shoup (trio). More info.
Wednesday, February 22nd: Aretha's Jazz Cafe at the Music Hall (Detroit, MI) - special appearance with Shahida Nurullah (duo). More info.
Thursday, February 23rd: Merrimans' Playhouse (South Bend, IN) - Ben Rosenblum Trio. More info.
Friday, February 24th: Bix Beiderbecke Foundation (Davenport, IA) - Ben Rosenblum Trio. More info.
Saturday, February 25th: Ben Rosenblum Trio at the Music on Tap Series (Jackson, MI) - Ben Rosenblum Trio. More info.
Sunday, February 26th: Zionsville Christian Church (Zionsville, IN) - Ben Rosenblum Trio. More info.

Tuesday, February 28th at 9:30pm
Choro at St. Tuesday (Manhattan: Tribeca)

** Thursday, March 2nd at 7:30pm-10pm **
Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project CD Release Event!
Smalls (Manhattan: West Village)

March 16th-19th: Ben Rosenblum Trio Bay Area Tour !!

Thursday, March 16th: Soper Reese Theatre (Lakeport, CA). More info.
Friday, March 17th: Libretto (Paso Robles, CA). More info.
Saturday, March 18th: Sound Room (Oakland, CA). More info.
Sunday, March 19th: White Barn (St. Helena, CA). More info.

March 24th-26th: Astrid Kuljanic Bay Area Tour !!

Friday, March 24th: The MACC (Rancho Cordova, CA). More info.
Saturday, March 25th: Red Poppy Art House (San Francisco, CA)
Sunday, March 26th: Soper Reese Theatre (Lakeport, CA). More info.

Sunday, May 21st:
Laura Anglade at the Jazz Forum (Tarrytown, NY)

July 13th (Details TBA)
Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project at the Erickson Center for the Arts (Curtis, MI)

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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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