Dorian’s Presents

Tromblau &Friends
Live at 9PM & 10:30PM

Happy Hours 6-8pm Nightly
No reservations ~ 6pm – 2am
21+

$10 Cover after 8PM

Tromblau is a Chicago-based trombonist, composer, Vinyl DJ, and Jewish Educator born and raised in New York City. In May 2022, Tromblau created Tromblau &Friends, a collective playing her original compositions informed by Black American Music, Jewish Music and Liturgy (avodah). Her compositions combine freedom, prayer, and play igniting alternate realities that seek to protest the mundanity of oppression and suppression. Tromblau &Friends includes collaborators Dakarai Barclay, Carmani Edwards, Indigo, Max Lazarus, Jonah Lazarus, and Julius Tucker. Most recently, Tromblau &Friends was featured as part of NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Tour 2026 where they performed at Thalia Hall. In Spring 2026, Tromblau was selected by International Anthem as an Artist in Residence at Theaster Gate’s “The Land School” for Spring 2026 where they presented their new project, Beis Music*, where Jewish Liturgical Music meets House Music. Tromblau performs regularly around Chicagoland and holds monthly DJ residencies at Punch House and Postcard. Tromblau has been featured as part of 2026 International Jazz Day, The Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago’s MCA Tuesday on The Terrace as well as Hey Nonny’s Women in Jazz Festival. In 2025, Tromblau composed an original score for Chicago Tap Theater, For All We Know, based on Bell Hook’s “All About Love”, choreographed by Sterling Harris, which was nominated by the Chicago Reader as Best Dance Performance in Chicago. Tromblau has opened for musicians such as Maria Chavez, recorded with Alabaster Deplume and performed with musicians such as William Parker and Shenel Johns in venues such as Birdland and Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in New York and Oliver’s Jazz Bar in London. They graduated from The Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University where they studied with Victor Goines, Vincent Gardener, and Tom Garling.

* “Beis Music,” (beis is the traditional Ashkenazi pronunciation of the Hebrew word for house), is a new library of music fusing Jewish Music (i.e. Klezmer, Cantorial, Liturgical, Nusachim Traditions) and Black American Music (i.e. House Music and Jazz) to activate movement building both through politics and dance. Beis Music follows Chicago’s legacy of House Music that has offered sanctuary and spirituality for those who were excommunicated from their communities. It is music that creates synagogue for the unsynagogued, as House is church for the unchurched; a synagogue that is inseparable from the liberation of Queer BIPOC. Amongst relentless grief, Beis Music is kol simcha, the sound of joy resonating from an event, that revels in the relief and enlivening experience of an empowering togetherness, (chedvah), of choosing each other. It is an option for Jewish cultural and religious expression that refuses the manipulation of Jewish trauma, history and ethics to justify violence, Jewish Supremacy, war and genocide.