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Daniel Rosenboom: Fire Keeper
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AAJ: Ok, brilliant, that makes sense. So in closing do you have any gigs coming up?
DR: I'm premiering two concert length works at the Blue Whale on May 7th, which is my 32nd birthday concert. One is with a quintet with trumpet, cello, piano, bass, drums, absolutely incredible band. The first set is going to be a sort of, I hesitate to use the term free jazz, because I feel like it has strange connotations to it, but basically it has a suite of structured improvised music. By that I mean there is actual melodic and harmonic content but it can be used in a somewhat free way.
AAJ: So not just bashes and wallops?
DR: Yeah, yeah right. It's also a dedication to my first trumpet teacher, Wadada Leo Smith.
AAJ: Wadada Leo Smith was your first trumpet teacher?
DR: Yeah, it was weird. Growing up my dad was the Dean of Music at CalArts, and Wadada started teaching on faculty there...and I had just started to play trumpet and he offered to teach me trumpet lessons and for the first few years I was learning trumpet. I was taking like really basic lessons with Wadada, which was kind of really amazing..
AAJ: That's a really good start to have, you're not going to lose faith with a teacher like that, especially from first steps.
DR: What was interesting was he even taught me some of the Hayden Trumpet Concerto, and he had me playing these Scarletti violin pieces, and it was interesting because we would work on some of that stuff and then get into some of his music. He would have me improvise in the lessons a lot it was super cool, and I have really fond memories.
DR: When his latest work Ten Freedom Summers came out it overwhelmed me for about a month and a half, and I just had to live with it. So this is a set long dedication to him, and the second half of the show is going to be a 45 minute pseudo- minimalist groove adventure but with solo outbursts from an octet, adding 2 saxophones and a guitar to the first line-up.
Discography
Fire KeeperThe Daniel Rosenboom Quintet
(Orenda Records, 2014)
Book of OmensDaniel Rosenboom
(Nine Winds Records, 2013)
Unsayable Absence: Live at the Blue WhaleThe Daniel Rosenboom Septet
(DRM Recordings, 2013)
Fallen AngelesThe Daniel Rosenboom Septet
(Nine Winds Records, 2011)
RootSystemRootSystem
(Self-released, 2011)
Low and Inside: Music for Baritone Saxophones Vinny Golia Octet
(Nine Winds Records, 2010)
The KidPLOTZ!
(SNP Records, 2010)
Black Pig SuiteDorian Wood (Self-Released, 2009)
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The PilgrimsDavid Rosenboom
(New World Records, 2009)
Book Of RiddlesDaniel Rosenboom
(SNP Records, 2008)
Live 2008PLOTZ!
(SNP Records, 2008)
LEEFThe Industrial Jazz Group
(Self- Released, 2008)
Visions and Nightmares- -DR. MiNT
(pfMentum, 2007)
Extraordinary RenditionsPLOTZ!
(PLOTZ! Music Productions, 2007)
DR: I'm premiering two concert length works at the Blue Whale on May 7th, which is my 32nd birthday concert. One is with a quintet with trumpet, cello, piano, bass, drums, absolutely incredible band. The first set is going to be a sort of, I hesitate to use the term free jazz, because I feel like it has strange connotations to it, but basically it has a suite of structured improvised music. By that I mean there is actual melodic and harmonic content but it can be used in a somewhat free way.
AAJ: So not just bashes and wallops?
DR: Yeah, yeah right. It's also a dedication to my first trumpet teacher, Wadada Leo Smith.
AAJ: Wadada Leo Smith was your first trumpet teacher?
DR: Yeah, it was weird. Growing up my dad was the Dean of Music at CalArts, and Wadada started teaching on faculty there...and I had just started to play trumpet and he offered to teach me trumpet lessons and for the first few years I was learning trumpet. I was taking like really basic lessons with Wadada, which was kind of really amazing..
AAJ: That's a really good start to have, you're not going to lose faith with a teacher like that, especially from first steps.
DR: What was interesting was he even taught me some of the Hayden Trumpet Concerto, and he had me playing these Scarletti violin pieces, and it was interesting because we would work on some of that stuff and then get into some of his music. He would have me improvise in the lessons a lot it was super cool, and I have really fond memories.
DR: When his latest work Ten Freedom Summers came out it overwhelmed me for about a month and a half, and I just had to live with it. So this is a set long dedication to him, and the second half of the show is going to be a 45 minute pseudo- minimalist groove adventure but with solo outbursts from an octet, adding 2 saxophones and a guitar to the first line-up.
Discography
Fire KeeperThe Daniel Rosenboom Quintet
(Orenda Records, 2014)
Book of OmensDaniel Rosenboom
(Nine Winds Records, 2013)
Unsayable Absence: Live at the Blue WhaleThe Daniel Rosenboom Septet
(DRM Recordings, 2013)
Fallen AngelesThe Daniel Rosenboom Septet
(Nine Winds Records, 2011)
RootSystemRootSystem
(Self-released, 2011)
Low and Inside: Music for Baritone Saxophones Vinny Golia Octet
(Nine Winds Records, 2010)
The KidPLOTZ!
(SNP Records, 2010)
Black Pig SuiteDorian Wood (Self-Released, 2009)
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The PilgrimsDavid Rosenboom
(New World Records, 2009)
Book Of RiddlesDaniel Rosenboom
(SNP Records, 2008)
Live 2008PLOTZ!
(SNP Records, 2008)
LEEFThe Industrial Jazz Group
(Self- Released, 2008)
Visions and Nightmares- -DR. MiNT
(pfMentum, 2007)
Extraordinary RenditionsPLOTZ!
(PLOTZ! Music Productions, 2007)
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