ABOUT
This Is Our Music celebrates the development and inspiration of improvised music and the Jazz of tomorrow. Curated with a focus on traditional roots and innovation, This Is Our Music proudly nurtures a broad inclusive community of forward looking music. Rooted with reverence to the music’s past the series proudly references the genre defying album by Ornette Coleman. Offering his blessing, Ornette’s son, Denardo affirms, “This Is Our Music is a seminal album and title by my father, this series continues in that expression of openness and creative exploration.” Bringing musicians and audiences together in the spirit of open musical exploration, This Is Our Music presents carefully curated and compelling programming of new and established acts across many genres. The series will be the umbrella presenting organization of the NYC Winter Jazzfest and new programming throughout the year in New York City and beyond.
This Is Our Music series is driven by industry veterans Brice Rosenbloom, Dahlia Ambach-Caplin and Béco Dranoff
BRICE ROSENBLOOM
Brice (BOOM Collective) has presented an eclectic mix of concerts and festivals in NYC for over fifteen years. He is the Senior Music Director at Le Poisson Rouge, founder of the NYC Winter Jazzfest, and presents events at NYC and Brooklyn venues including The Town Hall, The Apollo Theatre, Brooklyn Masonic Temple and more. Before launching BOOM Collective Rosenbloom developed his programming aesthetic while working at Jazz at Lincoln Center, 92nd Street Y, The Knitting Factory, and Central Park SummerStage. Rosenbloom received the 2016 Bruce Lundvall Visionary Award for extraordinary leadership and vision in expanding the audience for jazz.
DAHLIA AMBACH-CAPLIN
Dahlia worked as International Publicist and A&R for Verve Records/Universal for the past 17 years. Working with a wide range of artists such as Diana Krall, Trombone Shorty and Ledisi, her projects have earned 13 Grammy nominations, including the Grammy award for Album Of The Year for Herbie Hancock’s gold-selling album “River: The Joni Letters” in 2008. Dahlia is also the co-producer of the successful Verve Remixed series that introduced Jazz standards to a younger generation.
BÉCO DRANOFF
Béco’s multifaceted career includes credits as label founder/A&R, record producer, live music curator and music supervisor for films, documentaries and TV programs. Since 2012 Béco has been a co-curator of NY’s Brasil Summerfest, Brazilian music’s largest event outside of Brazil. Through his imprint Ziriguiboom, Béco signed artist Bebel Gilberto, co-producing her three Grammy nominated albums. In 2009 Béco and director Guto Barra released the documentary Beyond Ipanema: Brazilian Waves in Global Music, and in 2012 he was part of the team of music supervisors for the Oscar nominated documentary ‘How To Survive a Plague’.