Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: Kites and Strings

Ben Rosenblum plays both piano and accordion on this pastoral session with the blended horns of trumpeter Wayne Tucker, Jasper Dutz on tenor sax or bass clarinet, guitarist Rafael Rosa, bassist Marty Jaffe, drummer Ben Zweig and guests Jake Chapman/vib, Sam Chess/tb and Jeremy Corren/p. Chapman’s vibes team with Tucker’s horn on an Old World tango of a title track with added accordion atmosphere, with similar moods with Corren replacing Chapman on the European “Motif From Brahms”. A fun tarantella with Tucker out in front gets you dancing on “Fight Or Flight” with the horns in gorgeous harmony on the elegiac “Bright Above Us” and the  folk tune “Izpoved”. The team takes a dreamy read of Leonard Bernstein’s “Somewhere” with Neil Young’s “Philadelphia” a rich vehicle for Rosa and Chess. Sounds of the piazza.

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