Jazz Articles about The Rosenthals

About The Rosenthals

Album Review

In many ways, trumpeter Daniel Rosenthal has always been the odd man out in the Rosenthal clan. The members of this tight-knit, literal-cum-musical family have long been known as a folk and bluegrass breed, but Daniel took a turn toward jazz and never looked back; that is, until recently. After leaving the New England Conservatory, where he studied with revered jazz figures like composer/valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer and soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, Daniel joined the Either/Orchestra in ...

Album Review

The Rosenthals: Fly Away

Read "Fly Away" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 5, 2013

The continuing atomization and commingling of musical styles leads both to new styles and vibrant recapitulations of old ones. Either path, an evolution of the music. Father and son duo, Phil And Daniel Rosenthal, prove both directions of this observation on Fly Away, an assembly of fourteen mostly original compositions that is at once beautifully strange and deeply traditional. An immediate umbrella classification of this music could be “American Baroque." The presence of the elder Rosenthal's various ...