“Spontaneously selected from a short story about expansive, ghostly landscapes – the words “a soft lunacy” became the seed to a gentle and nonlinear unfolding of my first multi-media work. After morphing patiently over the course of a few years, this work has culminated into a music album, photo collection, and experimental film, including collaborators near and dear to me: Vicki Ray & Shanthal Caba Mojica.” –Vera Weber

Over the past decade-and-a-half, trumpeter Dan Rosenboom has established himself as a catalyst for creative music in Los Angeles, a stylistically diverse artist, and a top-call studio musician. He’s a composer, producer, and bandleader known for bringing marquee musicians from different scenes together. On his new album Polarity, he presents a highly dynamic program of original music featuring recent transplants from NYC, pianist/keyboardist John Escreet and drummer Damion Reid, alongside LA heavyweights saxophonist Gavin Templeton and bassist Billy Mohler. Produced by Justin Stanley (Prince, Beck, et al) Polarity is a testament to Rosenboom’s strength as a leader as much as it is about the trust he puts in his bandmates, a largely acoustic quintet with an innate sense of color and propulsion. Polarity emerges from a Los Angeles scene that has been trying to find its center-point in the last few years.