Ben Rosenblum Trio at Rendon Hall

After the success of his debut trio album, Instead (4 stars, DownBeat), award-winning New York City jazz pianist and composer Ben Rosenblum returns to Berkeley to celebrate the release of his second album, River City. Rosenblum has been described as “mature beyond his years,” (Sea of Tranquility), an “impressive talent” (All About Jazz), who “caresses [the music] with the reverence it merits” (DownBeat Magazine). An internationally-touring bandleader, Rosenblum has performed with his trio throughout the United States, including extensive tours of the Northeast, Midwest and West Coast, as well as in Canada and Japan...

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After the success of his debut trio album, Instead (4 stars, DownBeat), award-winning New York City jazz pianist and composer Ben Rosenblum returns to Berkeley to celebrate the release of his second album, River City. Rosenblum has been described as “mature beyond his years,” (Sea of Tranquility), an “impressive talent” (All About Jazz), who “caresses [the music] with the reverence it merits” (DownBeat Magazine). An internationally-touring bandleader, Rosenblum has performed with his trio throughout the United States, including extensive tours of the Northeast, Midwest and West Coast, as well as in Canada and Japan. He was a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall's Stern-Perelman Auditorium with Maestro Reona Ito's New York Harmonic Band, and has appeared as a leader at numerous prestigious venues throughout the world, including at the Appel Room at Lincoln Center, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, the Library of Congress and Himawari-No-Sato Concert Hall in Yokohama. With other projects, he has traveled to perform throughout Europe, as well as in China and India, and has taken part in numerous jazz festivals domestically and abroad, including the Richmond Jazz Festival (Richmond, VA), Masten Jazz Festival (Buffalo, NY), Ljeto na Bundeku Festival (Zagreb, Croatia) and Soboško Poletje Festival (Murska Sobota, Slovenia). Rosenblum will be joined by Bay Area native and rising jazz star Kanoa Mendenhall on bass, as well as in-demand New York City drummer Ben Zweig.

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