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Article: Year in Review

2022: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
December 29, 2022

Current events impacted the jazz world in significant ways throughout 2022. In its third year, the coronavirus pandemic continued to lurk in some settings, while others recovered in robust fashion. Russia's war on Ukraine was felt by musicians and triggered an outpouring of support for its victims. Initiatives to ensure greater equity in jazz advanced. The ...

Article: Album Review

Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: Kites and Strings

Read "Kites and Strings" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 25, 2021

Si parte con un episodio che potremmo definire post-bop, “Cedar Place," uno dei sette a firma di Ben Rosenblum, integrati da “Somewhere" di Leonard Bernstein, “Philadelphia" di Neil Young e un tradizionale bulgaro, ma in fondo è una falsa rivelazione, perché a seguire questa che è l'opera prima del giovane pianista e fisarmonicista newyorchese si sdipana ...

Song of the Day

Izpoved

January 18, 2021

Album: Kites and Strings
By Ben Rosenblum
Label: One Trick Dog Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 3:51

Article: Album Review

Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: Kites and Strings

Read "Kites and Strings" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
January 17, 2021

Ben Rosenblum uses a lot of different instrumental elements on this release. For starters, he himself plays both piano and accordion, and his sextet also features trumpet, reeds and guitar. In addition, vibraphone and trombone show up on some tracks. That creates a blend of various textures and sounds which bring variety to this program of ...

Album

Kites and Strings

By Ben Rosenblum

Label: One Trick Dog Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Cedar Place; Kites and Strings; Halfway to Wonderland; Fight or Flight; Somewhere; Philadelphia; Bright Above Us; Laughing on the Inside; Izpoved.

Article: Album Review

Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: Kites and Strings

Read "Kites and Strings" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
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, ...

About Rafael Rosa

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Musician

Rafael Rosa

Born: March 14, 1985

Rafael has been performing and teaching for the past 12 years in New York City. He is currently part of the Faculty at LIU's ROCNATION, and has taught at other colleges like NYU, CUNY, Saint John’s University, The Brooklyn Music School, Stevens Cooperative and his private studio: The Brooklyn Rock Academy, helping students graduate to colleges like Berklee College of Music, Wells College, Indiana University, etc. He regularly performs in NYC as a sideman and as a leader so be sure to check the calendar. He is currently putting the finishing touches on his second album and first LP as a leader titled “Axiomatic: Music For The People”

Album

Rafael Rosa: Portrait

By Rafael Rosa

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Bomba Oscura; Sky Floor; Portrait: Wandering Magic; Portrait: Of a Woman; Portrait: Among the Clouds; New Recruit; Pensando en Agua; Devotion; Looking For.

Article: Extended Analysis

Rafael Rosa: Portrait

by Ian Patterson
July 21, 2014

In jazz terms Puerto Rico has certainly punched above its weight, producing Juan Tizol--a mainstay of Duke Ellington's bands in the 1930s and 1940s, Eddie Gomez and Manolo Badrena--who came to prominence in the 1960s/1970s through their respective associations with pianist Bill Evans and Weather Report--and latterly David Sanchez. Lesser known--though perhaps that's soon to change--is ...