Presents

The New Album

  • from Cadence Jazz Magazine writer, Zim Tarro

"American Sunset  - TOP TEN NEW 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.