John Roseboro explores the transience of love on “80 Summers”

Brooklyn-based post-bossa trailblazer John Roseboro released the first single from his forthcoming album today, a brilliant and tranquil reflection on love and mortality entitled "80 Summers".

Roseboro describes the song as "Inspired by Calpurnia, Procula, and other virtuous women, "80 Summers" celebrates femininity in women with classical imagery (the moon, left side, yin energy). It's a treatise on romantic love in spite of human frailty." Tying into a common theme of Roseboro's music with its biblical references and meditations on love and justice, "80 Summers" is a soothing ponderance on the limitations of mortal love throughout the course of our lives. Standing out, as always, is Roseboro's remarkable penchant for storytelling and songwriting; a master of weaving a tapestry of parabolic symbolism through his simple lines as though they've been narrated on the spot in the midst of a spontaneous jazz quartet jam session.

There are very few artists that possess a more wholly unique je ne sais quoi than John Roseboro. His music just teleports you to a simpler time, when good music was good music and no one was trying to sell you something in every bar of a song. Purely genuine and brilliantly creative, look for Roseboro to build his authentic brand throughout the year and don't sleep on seeing him on arena stages someday. If he decides to, that is.