DAN BLACKSBERG
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, World Fusion, Jazz Related Improv, Composition • United States

From the landmark experimental music venue Roulette to the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, Philadelphia-native Dan Blacksberg has created a singular musical voice as a trombonist, composer, and educator. Acknowledged as the foremost practitioner of klezmer trombone in its traditional and modern forms and a respected voice in experimental music, Dan is known for a formidable virtuosity and extreme versatility. It is not unusual to see Dan switch back and forth from traditional klezmer, straight ahead jazz, experimental new music, heavy metal, or even country on his trombone in the course of a few days of performing. This has led to performances with artists such klezmer masters Elaine Hoffman Watts, Adrienne Cooper, Michael Winograd and Frank London to experimentalists like George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, and extreme doom metal band, The Body, to being a featured jazz soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Described by Bandcamp Daily as “a maestro who effortlessly read more...