Event

Mara Rosenbloom Quartet

Mara Rosenbloom - Piano & Composition
Darius Jones - Alto Saxophone
Sean Conly - Bass
Chad Taylor - Drums

For tonights concert, pianist/compser Mara Rosenbloom will continue the celebration of her latest release, Songs From the Ground (Fresh Sound New Talent). The album, unearths stories of home, family, childhood, memory, wistful nostalgia and personal trauma; the music reaches ambitiously forward while maintaining a grounded folk simplicity. Rosenbloom's compositions reveal an intellectual curiosity which has never lost a childlike sense of wonder, a mature sensibility combining narrative scope with direct emotional expression.
Tilling that ground alongside Rosenbloom is her longstanding, highly attuned quartet Downbeat Rising Star saxophonist Darius Jones, hailed as both "fearless" and "soulful" by the New York Times, highly in demand bassist Sean Conly (Andrew Hill, Tony Malaby, Paquito D'Rivera), and "ubiquitous" drummer, Chad Taylor - noted by press for his "sparkle of energy," and "sense of poetry." (All About Jazz/Dusty Groove).

"Rosenbloom renews the trite formulas of jazz with sparkling compositions that are both lyrically contemplative and rhythmically pulsating...This quartet plays music that renders believable the future of jazz." ~All About Jazz, New York, NY

"'Beautifulthat's perhaps the best word for composer/pianist Mara Rosenbloom's music, from her sinuous melodies to her rhythmic poise to her exquisitely harmonized everything." ~ Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore, MD

"Mara Rosenbloom has a musical vision." ~ Kenny Werner

"Soulful." ~ Time Out New York

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