Ben Rosenblum Presents Shows in USA

October 1st 2024
Rita Barnea

On Friday, October 25, 2024, 7:30 PM spend a splendid evening with Ben Rosenblum in the grandeur of Miller Symphony Hall’s intimate Rodale Room in Allentown, PA.  The perfect spot to take in an evening of jazz, drink in hand, with the sparkling city lights beyond the arched windows. See more concert locations in this article. 

Ben Rosenblum Trio

Ben Rosenblum brings his award-winning, genre-bending compositional style to the Nebula Project, a six-piece ensemble featuring a diverse cast of New York City’s most in-demand jazz musicians. He has toured extensively with his trio and sextet throughout the United States, including multiple tours to the Northeast, Midwest, South and West Coast, as well as internationally in Canada, Europe and Japan. 

Ben Rosenblum
Ben Rosenblum

Ben Rosenblum, a jazz accordionist, pianist and composer, is based in New York City. He is a graduate of the joint program of Columbia University and Juilliard School of Music. His work has won numerous awards including the ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award, the Downbeat Student Music Award and the Downbeat Student Music Award and many more.

He was a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall’s Stern-Perelman Auditorium – with Reona Ito’s New York Harmonic Band – and has appeared 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, featured the title track as part of their JAZZIZ Magazine’s Best of Fall 2018 CD. 

“Laughing on the Inside” (Ben Rosenblum)

Ben Rosenblum’s original composition, “Laughing on the Inside.”  Recorded live at Jazz at Kitano in New York City on February 29th, 2020.  This performance was the New York City debut of Rosenblum’s larger ensemble, the Nebula Project.  The concert featured JQ Whitcomb on trumpet, Jasper Dutz on alto sax and bass clarinet, Rafael Rosa on guitar, Ben Rosenblum on piano and accordion, Marty Jaffe on bass and Ben Zweig on drums, with special guest Jake Chapman on vibraphone.  Filmed and edited by Kevin Jiang, with additional filming by Matt Joseph Pugh.

About the Nebula project: The Nebula Project assembles some of Rosenblum’s favorite musicians in New York City to explore original, world-infused compositions and arrangements, with a unique ensemble featuring doubling on bass clarinet and accordion. The repertoire features renditions of music as diverse as Bulgarian choral music, Leonard Bernstein and Neil Young, in addition to Rosenblum’s original compositions, which have influences from around the world.

Ben Rosenblum, born and raised in Los Angeles is currently based in New York City. He began playing music at the age of seven after receiving his father’s $20 yard-sale purchased clarinet. He began playing jazz in middle school after trying the baritone saxophone in band class. He currently co-leads Harlem-Based jazz ensemble “Three Hunters Trio” as well as his own quartet, and is a full-time member of the Grammy-winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Arturo O’Farrill. He has recorded or performed with artists such as Nels Cline, Lenny Pickett, Jon Batiste and Ron Carter.

His third album, “Kites and Strings”, 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 shared the stage with Curtis Lundy, Winard Harper, Deborah Davis and Chris Washburne, as well as appearances with Bobby Watson, Sean Jones, T.S. 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.

Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project, A Thousand Pebbles

Ben released his fourth album, “A Thousand Pebbles” in 2023, which features almost exclusively original compositions, and the same amazing core band of musicians from the previous album, “Kites and Strings”.

With the Nebula Project, the pianist/accordionist digs deeply into his cosmopolitan roots in NYC to create a truly global music, drawing from influences as diverse as Brazilian forró, Irish reels and jigs, Bulgarian folkloric songs, Dominican merengue and Middle Eastern traditional rhythms, and combining them with an extensive rooting in American jazz and traditional music.

Since Ben Rosenblum’s Nebula Project’s first album release in 2020, “Kites and Strings”, The Nebula Project was voted runner-up for Best New Artist in JazzTimes’ 2020 Readers’ Poll, and the album received positive reviews from over twenty publications, including All About Jazz, NYC Jazz Record, JazzTimes, JazzLife (Japan) and more. Since the 2023 release, the group was featured in an article in Downbeat Magazine’s May 2023 issue, “Worldly Jazz Adventuring” which highlights the adventurous spirit of this ensemble.

Musicians in the Nebula Project: Jasper Dutz –  saxophone & bass clarinet; Marty Jaffe – bass; Rafael Rosa – guitar; Wayne Tucker – Trumpet; Ben Zweig – Drums

Future 2024 NYC shows include:

October 8th: Ben joins the house band at Mona’s with the fantastic Dennis Lichtman and special guest Alphonso Horne

October 10th: Trio with two amazing Brazilian musicians, Cesar Garabini and Eduardo Belo, at the Intercontinental

October 13th: Special guest with choro group Regional Samaúma at Barbès.

October 16th: With the legendary Forró in the Dark for their residency at Nublu

October 20th: Radegast with Ben Zweig’s Big Beet band

October 27th: Brazilian brunch at Uncle Cheef in Brewster, NY.

For more information: benrosenblummusic@gmail.com