Presents Louis' New 2026 Album
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from Jazz Weekly: "Some people write songs from the heart; Rosen puts these songs together for the heart. Imbibe slowly and let it digest."
from Lorraine Devon Wilke's Substack: Creative Musings of a Loudmouth: I found this album to be deeply, sweetly personal, with a folksiness, a gentleness to it, that's very moving.
Presents
The CADENCE MAGAZINE TOP-TEN ALBUM OF 2025
- The award-winning novelist and Substack columnist, Lorraine Devon Wilke, wrote:
"Stunning work, and truly a concept album... ‘American Sunset’ is a perfect elegy to our battered country, a jazz protest song cycle…. It is brilliant…a profound musical statement."
- George Harris at Jazz Weekly wrote:
“He's built up an impressive catalogue of albums that always carry some sort of theme…This time around, Rosen takes on the current American political scene, creating a red, white and blue tapestry that mixes challenges, satire and ultimately hope.”
- Jeremy Gerard, Biographer and Culture Critic, wrote:
“I'm knocked out…. American Sunset is a stunner. As both a gifted composer's wholly original tonal map of the times and as a storyteller of acute intelligence and poignance, this is indeed Rosen’s finest work, and the technical production is every bit up to that standard."
- from Scott Yanow in the L. A. Jazz Scene:
"This is a significant jazz protest album.”
- Alix Cohen at Cabaret Scenes wrote:
…"American Sunset" is a thinking man’s Cri de Coeur….Articulate, wry, thoughtful, sad, and seething.
- from Suzanna Bowling on the "Times Square Chronicles Podcast:
"…A voice for the voiceless… a jazz protest. [The music] speaks the language of jazz and blues…and Bernstein…. I felt the heartbreak.”
Click on either album image to learn more and listen to AMERICAN SUNSET.