Dan Rosenboom
In a time marked by unpredictability and absurd realities, music imbued with spontaneity and improvisation seems especially relevant. Internationally recognized trumpet player and composer-producer-entrepreneur Dan Rosenboom embraces the chaos and seeks to endow us with hope and joy along the way.
Rosenboom, a musician at the forefront of Los Angeles' ever-thriving creative music scene, boasts an international reputation for boundary-pushing projects and relentless productivity. A trumpet virtuoso equally at home in improvised and classical music, the prolific musician has been featured on stages and festivals all over the world, and has been described as “a phenomenon” by the Los Angeles Times.
The highly decorated Rosenboom was born on May 7, 1982 in Berkeley, CA to a composer-performer father who was a trailblazer of early computer music and a mother who was an avant-garde vocalist, designer, and visual artist. From these roots, Rosenboom developed an approach to music and trumpet playing that is highly personalized yet grounded in a global and forward-thinking sensibility.
“From the beginning, I was surrounded by people who were examining and redefining what we consider art to be,” Rosenboom said. “That has had a lasting impact on me, and gave me a true and deep love of exploration through the artistic creative process."
Early on, the musician also acquired an interest in music that reflects cultural and social movements. “When I was younger, I was always interested in music inspired by what was happening in the world at large,” he said, “and that’s become an ongoing theme in my music: responding to culture.”
Rosenboom’s explorations into avant-garde music and what he calls “the intersection of intellectualism and spirituality” deepened while he earned an undergraduate degree at the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY in 2004, and graduate degrees at UCLA and California Institute of the Arts in 2006 and 2007, respectively.
It was at the latter institutions that his love for improvisational music permanently took root, and around that time he entered Los Angeles’ creative music scene. Working closely with LA icon Vinny Golia, and with his own Balkan jazz-rock group PLOTZ, and improv band DR. MiNT, as well as many other projects, Rosenboom’s route into the jazz world was circuitous, to say the least. However, over the last decade, he’s solidified his place as a pillar in LA’s music community, and has produced more than 25 albums, both under his own name and with various bands. He is also the founder of visionary creative music label Orenda Records, whose roster encompasses dozens of artists.
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Album Review
- Book of Omens by Troy Collins
- Fire Keeper by Robert Bush
- The Daniel Rosenboom Quintet: Fire Keeper by Mike Oppenheim
Interview
Album Review
- Astral Transference / Seven Dreams by Robert Bush
- Burning Ghosts by Troy Collins
- Voices in the Void by Glenn Astarita
Radio & Podcasts
Read more articles"A musician dedicated to exploration and expression, regardless of anyone’s
imagined boundaries."
— Chris Barton, Los Angeles Times
"A singularly creative voice whose unique aesthetic encompasses an array of idiosyncratic influences...a lyrical
virtuoso with a commanding tone, whose expansive trumpet technique is saliently paralleled in his diverse writing."
— Troy Collins, All About Jazz
"One of the most original, exciting, adventurous [artists] in L.A.
right now."
–Gary Fukushima, LA Weekly
Primary Instrument
Trumpet
Location
Los Angeles
Willing to teach
Beginner to advanced
Clinic/Workshop Information
A clinic with Daniel Rosenboom can take many shapes. If working with performing groups, Daniel is an outstanding coach for group interaction, both in terms of written music and improvisation. If working with large ensembles, Daniel's extensive background in orchestras, big bands, and various chamber ensemble settings gives him a wealth of insight into the shaping of large ensemble music. In working with individual players, Daniel's approach focuses on an effortless approach to technique in order to free the inner voice of a musician
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Album Discography
Burst Into The Infinite
From: Astral Transference & Seven...By Dan Rosenboom
Black Silk
From: Black Silk (Single)By Dan Rosenboom
Leaving Moscow
From: Fire KeeperBy Dan Rosenboom
Tadodaho
From: Unsayable Absence: Live at the...By Dan Rosenboom