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Dan Rosenboom

Dan Rosenboom (b. May 7, 1982) is an internationally recognized trumpet player, composer, and producer. He is known as a prolific member of the Los Angeles creative music scene, having released more than 25 albums of original music as a solo artist and bandleader and has supported over 60 artists across over 100 releases on his label, Orenda Records. Rosenboom is a proud member of the Hollywood Studio Symphony and has recorded for over 200 major film and television soundtracks with such notable composers as John Williams, Danny Elfman, James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, Alexandre Desplat, and many more. He has also performed with such elite ensembles as the LA Philharmonic, the LA Chamber Orchestra, and the LA Opera. His own music eschews genre distinctions and draws from such disparate influences as Black American Music, metal and experimental rock, contemporary classical music, folk music from the Balkans, and a broad range of progressive music from the avant-garde. He studied at the Eastman School of Music, CalArts, and UCLA, where he earned advanced degrees in music. The Los Angeles Times has called Dan Rosenboom “a musician dedicated to exploration and expression, regardless of anyone’s imagined boundaries,” and “a phenomenon.”

As a composer, Rosenboom has been recognized with grants and awards from the American Composers Forum, ASCAP, the Meet the Composer Foundation, and the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music. As a bandleader, he has brought his music to such renowned stages as the Monterey Jazz Festival, Angel City Jazz Festival, Jazzfestival Saalfelden and Jazz em Agosto. Rosenboom has solidified his place as a pillar in LA’s creative music community through his work with multiple generations of LA icons and rising talents, through his label Orenda Records, with his Balkan-inspired instrumental rock band PLOTZ! and improv group DR. MiNT, and across nearly two decades of noteworthy interdisciplinary performances at most of Los Angeles’s premiere venues.

Rosenboom’s iconoclastic protest band Burning Ghosts has drawn international attention for their rousing blend of experimental jazz, punk, and metal as response to modern socio-political ills. To date they have released four albums, including one on John Zorn’s legendary Tzadik label, and have toured in the US and Europe. In a review of their self-titled debut, Something Else Reviews dubbed them “the Rage Against the Machine of jazz.”

Rosenboom is an advocate for progressive music education. He currently teaches at UCLA and California Institute of the Arts, and his trumpet pedagogy book, The Boom Method: Universal Fundamentals for Trumpet and Other Instruments, Vol.

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"Rosenboom is a phenomenon." — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times

"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

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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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Albums

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Polarity

Orenda Records
2023

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Absurd in the...

Gearbox Records
2020

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Points on an Infinite...

Orenda Records
2020

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Reabsorb

Orenda Records
2020

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American Circus

Orenda Records
2019

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Trio Subliminal

Orenda Records
2019

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Leaving Moscow

From: Fire Keeper
By Dan Rosenboom

Tadodaho

From: Unsayable Absence: Live at the...
By Dan Rosenboom

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