Music…healing through harmony

Thank you for stepping behind this curtain. Music, transcendent, beautiful, deeply human, is one of my great loves. It has the power to carry you beyond your daily concerns and invite you into a quiet space that resonates inside your heart.

Listening to music at home can soothe you, but something truly shifts when you’re in a room with live musicians. The vibrations, the breath, the unspoken connection, they lift the burdens of life and open a space for joy, presence, and release.

A Life Shaped by Sound

Music has always been in my blood. My father played tenor saxophone, often heading to late-night gigs after a full day’s work. He’d come home around 2 AM, still beaming from the joy of playing and connecting, and watching that kind of passion left a lasting impression.

I started piano at age eight, then moved to trumpet. By fifteen, I was performing in my father’s band. When I moved to New York City, I shifted focus to modern dance and set my trumpet aside for the next twenty years. During that time, I founded Ron’s C-57 Movement Arts Studio in Carnegie Hall, taught movement at Circle in the Square, and served as faculty at The Juilliard School Drama Division. I also worked as a personal trainer to artists like Sting, Julianne Moore, and Al Pacino.

From Management to Miles

In 1985, I founded Mileshigh Artists Management, representing some of New York’s most talented jazz and pop musicians. Years later, while living in Santa Fe, I picked up the album ‘Kind of Blue’ by Miles Davis. Something in its space, tone, and emotional honesty spoke directly to me. It rekindled my connection to the horn—and pointed me toward a more fluid, expressive, and spacious approach to jazz that I hadn’t fully explored before. The path forward was clear. I opened my dusty trumpet case and simply began to blow.

Since then, I’ve recorded 3 albums and a concert video, performed across the U.S., and even played for 250,000 penguins in Antarctica with Neil Armstrong at my side.

The Next Verse

For my next chapter, I’m looking forward to more concerts, more collaborations, and more shared moments. Right now, I’m building something fresh here in West Palm Beach with my great friend James McCreavy, a guitar virtuoso. He’s been playing in West Palm Beach and Palm Beach for decades. Together, just his guitar and my flugelhorn, we’re exploring a sound that’s intimate, soulful, and entirely our own, and we are also building bigger ensembles for larger venues.

We’d love to share this with your guests, whether it’s an intimate gathering, a lively restaurant, a jazz club, or a grand concert hall. Any place that longs for live, honest music. Look through the site, listen to a few samples, and let yourself be drawn in.

My albums, In the Shadows, Reflections of Beauty, and It Never Entered My Mind, are all on Amazon. The most recent brought together extraordinary musicians, including Mike Mainieri, David Spinozza, Rachel Z. Hakim, James Genus, Joel Rosenblatt, and special guests Ann Hampton Callaway and Steve Wilson, who shaped something truly special.

James McCreavy and I look forward to seeing you at a live show soon and sharing a few moments of that intimate magic that only music can offer.

Musical Encounters

Rachel Z Hakim, Omar Hakim and Jonathan Toscano

Ryan Kelly, Vuk Pavlovic, and Jarad Hall

James Genus, David Spinozza, Mike Mainieri, Rachel Z Hakim and Joel Rosenblatt

upcoming Gigs

Ron Helman albums

To hear song samples right here on the page, click a track number or the play button to hear song samples one after another.

To hear the full album, click a song title or the album title to open the album on Amazon Music.

Live at the Lensic Theater

Santa Fe, NM
Ron Helman flugelhorn, Kanoa Kaluhiwa sax, John Rangel piano, Michael Glynn bass, Cal Haines drums

What Others Are Saying

"While listening to flugelhornist Ron Helman's new album, you might detect a strong insinuation of line and form, of motion, elegance and grace - and for good reason. Before becoming a jazz musician at the ripe age of 44, the New Jersey-born, New Mexico-based Helman spent years as a dancer and gymnast. In his former life, he served as a dance coach with the Juilliard School Drama Department and even provided chorograpical expertise to the likes of Sting, Al Pacino ad Julianne Moore. A certified life coach and business coach, Helman also trained as a classical trumpeter and performed in off-Broadway productions. He calls It Never Entered My Mind an autobiographical album, and for the most part, the music on the disc is as compelling and diverse as Helman's life story. Produced by Mike Mainieri, the program of 11 jazz standards unfolds with a sense of thematic balance, alternating hard, biting swing and misty balladry. Helman's solo on a gusty "Just Friends" provides flash and pop, and later a guest turn by vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway on "Born To Be Blue" luxuriates in slow, deliberate gestures. Helman's tone is of the airy, wind-blown sort, and positions him squarely on the Miles Davis/Chet Baker end of the timbre spectrum. But it's a tone he adapts tp varied contexts. On "All Or Nothing At All", he engages in flinty dialogue with saxophonist Steve Wilson, generating sparks in the heated exchange, while on the album-closing title track, he converses with pianist Rachel Z Hakim and guitarist David Spinozza in whispers. Bassist James Genus and drummer Joel Rosenblatt add crisp accompaniment no matter the setting or style, and Mainieri's clean, clean attentive production ensures a crystalline glow."

"Ron's music touches something deep within. Every session leaves me feeling more connected to myself."

"Ron has been a powerful advocate for many of us on the NYC music scene for years. He supported many dreams of young musicians and brought many of us to the forefront through his dedication, caring, and daring. Ron has a voice that empowers the soul and encourages the heart! His flugelhorn voice is a comfort—a warm embrace from a friend. Let this music take you to a peaceful place...enjoy!"

"Proud to be part of jazz trumpeter Ron D Helman’s beautiful CD “It Never Entered My Mind” singing Mel Torme classic “Born to Be Blue”. Finally got to listen to this romantic, late-night collection of elegant standards played in every shade of blue with the great band he assembled—Steve Wilson, James Genus, Mike Mainieri, Rachel Z, David Spinozza and Joel Rosenblatt. Love the songs—every one is a jewel—and Ron’s playing is stunning. Check it out!"

"Ron- It’s a gem! You have to be ecstatic about this album.That’s all I can say....I’ll be listening to it again on the way to Geneva- Montreux Jazz Festival. Limo pulling up in 30 minutes. Congrats all around."

Music…healing through harmony

Musical Encounters

Heidi's Jazz Club

Norton Museum of Art

What Others Are Saying

"Return to what's real — your fullest, freest self."