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4 Motif From Brahms  
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Ben Rosenblum doesn't just invite a diverse array of influences into his music. While his projects reflect his potent and deeply rooted point of view, the pianist, accordionist, composer and arranger positively thrives on a thrum of contrasting approaches. With Kites and Strings, his third album as a leader and the debut of the Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project, he's convened an exceptionally vivid cast of collaborators and provided them with a program of arrestingly beautiful pieces. Slated for release on October 16, 2020 via One Trick Dog, the album is the work of an artist who's found that his voice contains multitudes. Regularly employed by some of jazz's most revered masters, Rosenblum has already established a national profile as bandleader by logging thousands of miles on the road, playing some 100 gigs annually with his trio at clubs, theaters, schools and community centers, and relishing the opportunity to bring jazz into communities where fellow musicians rarely play. 

  • Ben Rosenblum chats with Miami's 90.5WVUM
    Posted At: January 18, 2021

    Pianist, composer, band-leader and amazing jazz accordionist Ben Rosenblum doesn't just invite a diverse array of influences into his music. While his projects reflect his potent and deeply rooted point of view, the pianist, accordionist, composer and arranger positively thrives on a thrum of contrasting approaches. With Kites and Strings, his third album as a leader and the debut of t...

  • Ben Rosenblum discusses 'Kites and Strings' with manx radio
    Posted At: December 21, 2020

    Ben Rosenblum doesn't just invite a diverse array of influences into his music. While his projects reflect his potent and deeply rooted point of view, the pianist, accordionist, composer and arranger positively thrives on a thrum of contrasting approaches. With Kites and Strings, his third album as a leader and the debut of the Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project, he's convened an excepti...

  • 'Cedar Place' from Ben Rosenblum's Nebula Project - Kites and Strings, featured on Punto Radio's 'animajazz'
    Posted At: December 12, 2020

    In episode no. 949 of "ANIMAJAZZ", conceived and conducted by BRUNO POLLACCI , broadcast on TUESDAY 14 December at 11.00 pm, on PUNTORADIO, also in streaming on www.puntoradio.fm is BEN ROSENBLUM Nebula Project - CD "Kites and Strings" - "Cedar Place" We remind you that "ANIMAJAZZ" can be heard on TUESDAY at 11.00 pm in immediate podcast on http://animajazz.eu and the "DOWNLOAD" of the episode can be mad...

  • Ben Rosenblum - Nebula Project 'Kites and Strings' is loaded with beautiful music / Music Man Blog
    Posted At: December 10, 2020

    Pianist, Composer, Arranger and Accordionist Ben Rosenblum has just released his debut CD of the Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project, "Kites and Strings".  The CD playlist covers a special group of composers and music from Leonard Bernstein to Neil Young to Ben Rosenblum originals.  It also includes a great group of relatively new and brilliant Jazz musicians including Trumpeter Wayne Tucker, Guitaris...

  • Ben Rosenblum thinks of the 'Nebula Project' as an orchestra / JazzTimes
    Posted At: December 8, 2020

    Sometimes the vitality of an art form is demonstrated not by "big" records from major figures, but by unassuming projects from people you don't know-yet. Press notes for Kites and Strings correctly point out that Ben Rosenblum is "the newest member of a small, extraordinary keyboard cadre … of players equally expressive on piano and accordion." (Others include Gary Versace and Vitor Gonçalv...

  • Ben Rosenblum discusses 'Kites and Strings' with Harmonious World podcast
    Posted At: November 18, 2020

    Pianist, composer, band-leader and amazing jazz accordionist Ben Rosenblum doesn't just invite a diverse array of influences into his music. While his projects reflect his potent and deeply rooted point of view, the pianist, accordionist, composer and arranger positively thrives on a thrum of contrasting approaches. With Kites and Strings, his third album as a leader and the debut of the&nb...

  • Ben Rosenblum's Nebula Project music is decidedly colorful, melodic and accessible on 'Kites And Strings' / All About Jazz
    Posted At: November 16, 2020

    Expectations are necessarily guarded when preparing to appraise a recording by the Nebula Project whose leader plays accordion. Be that as it may, any such uneasiness is quickly erased by Ben Rosenblum and his doughty ensemble whose music is decidedly colorful, melodic and accessible-which is not meant to undervalue diversity, another of its discernible points. Rosenblum, who wrote seven of the album'...

  • BTR today - The Jazz Hole talks 'Kites and Strings' with Ben Rosenblum
    Posted At: November 15, 2020

    On this edition of BTR today - The Jazz Hole, Linus talks to the phenomenal award-winning NYC pianist, accordionist & composer Ben Rosenblum about his brand new 3rd album "Kites and Strings" on today's episode of The Jazz Hole. The album is available on www.benrosenblummusic.com and features among others Wayne Tucker, Jasper Dutz, Rafael Rosa, Marty Jaffe and Ben Zweig. Other music on today's episode...

  • Ben Rosenblum's rhythm section cement's 'Kites and Strings' like polished marble / Musicalmemoirs
    Posted At: November 13, 2020

    Ben Rosenblum is a composer/arranger who has written eight of the ten songs on his third album release as a bandleader.  "Kites & Strings" is the first album where he is featuring his arranger talents and his original compositions.  They are songs he's been writing over the past ten years.   The first tune, inspired by Cedar Walton's jazz standard, "Bolivia,"is developed from a propuls...

  • Ben Rosenblum - Nebula Project 'Kites and Strings' is all that and more / STEP TEMPEST
    Posted At: November 13, 2020

    Listen to all the musical sounds around us; there are albums that push us into action, others that take us to new worlds, and others that plain bore us. Then, there's "comfort food" music, songs that make us smile, calm us down because the artist(s) is (are) so in sync and sound like that everyone is having such a good time.  For his third album as a leader, pianist, accordionist, and composer B...

  • 'Kites and Strings' spotlights Ben Rosenblum?s skills as a composer, arranger, pianist and accordionist / Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
    Posted At: November 11, 2020

    Ben Rosenblum's Nebula Project is one of the most intriguing young ensembles to emerge in recent years. The native New Yorker's sextet, augmented by three more players on a few tracks, digs into both Rosenblum originals and three mightily varied covers on Kites and Strings. The overall sound is distinctive, spotlighting Rosenblum's skills as a composer, arranger, pianist and accordionist. His band mates ...

  • Ben Rosenblum's little band swings nicely on 'Kites and Stings' / The Art Music Lounge
    Posted At: November 9, 2020

    When I see an album cover that looks like this and has a title like this, the first thing that comes into my mind is, "Another goopy album of soft Millennial ‘jazz,'" but such is not the case here. Ben Rosenblum's little band swings nicely, if not with any particular style; they change meter here and there with impunity, and the solos are solid and often interesting, particularly those of trumpeter...

  • A smartly curated set-list and eclectic presentation on Ben Rosenblum's 'Kites and Strings'
    Posted At: November 1, 2020

    A smartly curated set-list and eclectic presentation do much to help this third album from Ben Rosenblum stand out. Kites and Strings augments originals by the pianist with treatments of songs by Leonard Bernstein and Neil Young, and also ranges widely in its stylistic approach, with klezmer, Bulgarian folk, classical, and, of course, jazz tackled by an energized group of players. Helping to distinguish ...

  • Ben Rosenblum and Nebula Project 'Kites and Strings' is a joyous sensory overload / London JazzNews
    Posted At: October 19, 2020

    The Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project brings together an atypical group of musicians for an eclectic range of music on Kites and Strings: a magpie collection of excellently executed pieces stretching from 1800s classical to neo-classical jazz, via Venezuelan merengue, klezmer and good old rock. Opening track Cedar Place sets the scene with switching lines and fast-changing tempos. There are moments of Big...

  • Ben Rosenblum - Nebula Project 'Kites and Strings' is a pastoral session blended with horns / Jazz Weekly
    Posted At: October 19, 2020

    Ben Rosenblum plays both piano and accordion on this pastoral session with the blended horns of trumpeter Wayne Tucker, Jasper Dutz on tenor sax or bass clarinet, guitarist Rafael Rosa, bassist Marty Jaffe, drummer Ben Zweig and guests Jake Chapman/vib, Sam Chess/tb and Jeremy Corren/p. Chapman's vibes team with Tucker's horn on an Old World tango of a title track with added accordion atmosphere, with si...

  • Accordionist-pianist Ben Rosenblum stays aloft in 'Kites and Strings' / Jay Harvey Upstage
    Posted At: October 8, 2020

    There's no tangle ending up in Charlie Brown's nemesis tree when it comes to the musical deftness displayed in "Kites and Strings" (One Trick Dog) by Ben Rosenblum's Nebula Project. This is a well-designed set of balanced ensemble jazz, with solos inserted aptly. When Rosenblum reaches far afield for material - as in a folk song picked up from a Bulgarian women's chorus recording and ...

  • Ben Rosenblum with Nebula Project kicks ass throughout 'Kites and Strings' / Midwest Record
    Posted At: September 22, 2020

    Kites and Strings: A young hydra that's a fount of talent that can't be contained, Rosenblum takes on his third set with a third persona and uses it to kick ass throughout. A witty, skillful composer, the multi instrumentalist leads his first full band outing in fine form with playing and writing that are second to none. A young jazzbo that's sure to be an overnight sensation a few years from...
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