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Daniel Blacksberg is a Philadelphia-based trombonist whose work has been known to alternate among structured jazz, freely improvised music, new music and klezmer. Blacksberg received his Bachelor of Music from the New England Conservatory, where he completed studies with such renown players and educators as Bob Brookmeyer, Joe Morris, Ran Blake, Joe Maneri and Hankus Netsky.

Upon his return to Philadelphia, Blacksberg has rapidly made a name for himself joining two of the city's premiere ensembles: Bobby Zankel's Warriors of the Wonderful Sound and Kevin Diehl's Sonic Liberation Front. Within the jazz-improvised music spectrum, Daniel has performed with such notable musicians as Joe Morris, Joe Maneri, Daniel Levin, Jack Wright, Toshi Makihara, Mike Pride, Taylor Ho Bynum, Steve Lantner, Gene Coleman, Nate Wooley, Katt Hernandez, Pierre-Yves Martel, Petr Cancura, Irene Aebi, Danilo Perez, Gunther Schuller and Anthony Braxton.

Along with his jazz playing, Daniel is fast becoming one of the most in-demand trombonists in the world of klezmer music. He has performed or recorded in the US and abroad with such leading klezmer artists as Frank London, Michael Alpert, Alicia Svigals, Richie Barshay, Matt Darriau, Lorin Sklamberg, Michael Winograd, Aaron Alexander, Susan Watts, Elaine Hoffman Watts, the Klez Dispensers, Hankus Netsky, Alan Bern, Adrienne Cooper, Alex Kontorovitch, Daniel Kahn, Christian David and the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra. These musical associations have brought Blacksberg to such far-flung locales as Hungary, Poland, Austria, Germany and Canada.

Trumpeter, band leader and composer alike, Frank London is a member of the Klezmatics and Hasidic New Wave. He has performed with John Zorn, LL Cool J, Mel Torme, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, LaMonte Young, They Might Be Giants, David Byrne, Jane Siberry, Ben Folds 5, Mark Ribot, Maurice El Medioni and Gal Costa, and is featured on more than 100 albums. His own recordings include "Invocations" (cantorial music); Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars "Di Shikere Kapelye" and "Brotherhood of Brass"; "Nigunim" and "The Zmiros Project" (Jewish mystical songs, with Klezmatics vocalist Lorin Sklamberg); "The Debt" (film and theater music); "The Shekhina Big Band"; the soundtrack to "The Shvitz"; the soundtrack to Perl Gluck's "The Divahn" and four releases with the Hasidic New Wave.