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Gary Brumburgh

Following his long legit and musical theatre career, jazz was given a somewhat late but now is a major focus of Gary Brumburgh these days. ​ Born in Buffalo and raised in a small suburb of North Tonawanda, New York, Gary’s strong singing voice was most likely inherited from his mother, classical singer/pianist/teacher Doris (née Howe) Brumburgh Maretti. He studied piano under his mother’s guidance at age 7 and was playing Rachmaninoff by 12 before giving it up entirely, preferring voice and acting instead. Acting was a wonderful escape and Gary made his theatre debut at age 14 playing minor sleuth Archie Carstairs in the murder mystery comedy Home Sweet Homicide

Full Circle

By Gary Brumburgh

Label: Cafe Pacific Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Everybody’s Gotta Be Somewhere; Celebration; Why Should I Wake Up; The Surrey with the Fringe on Top; Happy Talk; Soon It’s Gonna Rain; Sorry-Grateful; You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught; Love, I Hear; I’m Glad to See You’ve Got What You Want; Far From the Home I Love; Celebration (extended version).

Gary Brumburgh: Full Circle

by Richard J Salvucci
May 20, 2022

A recording dedicated to New York theater and a high school music teacher. Ho, boy, one thinks. “What could go wrong?" Actually, not much. Vocalist Gary Brumburgh is, all snobbery aside, a very pleasant surprise. He swings. He is plenty hip. He has an attractive style and a pleasant, companionable voice. So, what good can come ...

Pat Metheny, Howard Britz & Charles Goold

by Joe Dimino
May 15, 2022

We start the 751st Episode of Neon Jazz with a relatively new musician that has seen a lot of action in his young life. Drummer Charles Goold kicks things off with a song off his 2022 album Rhythm in Contrast. We also take a look into some new music from veterans of the jazz world in ...

April 2022: Get Out Of Town

by C. Michael Bailey
April 18, 2022

Kristina Koller Get Out Of Town Self Produced 2022 Youthful, vibrant, and musically precocious, vocalist / composer Kristina Koller answers her two previous recordings: the gracefully insurgent Perception (Self Produced, 2018) and frankly anarchic Stronger (Self Produced, 2019) with the intensely focused Get Out Of Town, devoted to a dramatic ...

Gary Brumburgh: Full Circle

by Jack Bowers
April 15, 2022

Gary Brumburgh is living proof that a talented singer can sustain a respectable career in music without becoming a “star." Even though he's not a household name—or anywhere near it—Brumburgh performed in musical productions from dinner theatres to summer stock, concert stages to casinos for more than two decades before changing direction in 2003 to focus ...

Lauren White: Ever Since The World Ended

by C. Michael Bailey
April 7, 2021

There is a cadre of West Coast jazz musicians who tacitly orbit one Mark Winkler. This embarrassing wealth of talent includes: Cheryl Bentyne, Dolores Scozzesi, Judy Wexler, Robyn Spangler, Gary Brumburgh, Jeffery Gimble, Ada Bird Wolfe, and our present subject, Lauren White. White, an original East Coast product, expatriated to Westward to act and sing...and record. ...

Producer Barbara Brighton Awarded Jazz Hero 2019 By Jazz Journalists Association

April 24, 2019

In a ceremony taking place on Friday, May 3, 2019 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's (LACMA) Friday Night Jazz Series, Barbara Brighton will be presented with the Jazz Hero Award, given by the Jazz Journalists Association and presented by jazz journalist Kirk Silsbee and 2016 Jazz Hero Edythe Bronston. Barbara Brighton’s lifelong love ...

Moonlight

By Gary Brumburgh

Label: Cafe Pacific Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: 1. DAY TRIPPER (4:32) 2. I’LL CLOSE MY EYES (6:08) 3. DIG / SWEET GEORGIA BROWN (3:25) 4. WICHITA LINEMAN (5:53) 5. MOONLIGHT (4:50) 6. HEAVY CLOUD NO RAIN (4:30) 7. EGGPLANT (4:42) 8. MY WORLD IS EMPTY WITHOUT YOU (4:14) 9. JUST A LITTLE LOVIN’ (EARLY IN THE MORNIN’) (4:55) 10. HAVEN’T WE MET (4:40) 11. WHAT’LL I DO (3:57) tracks

Birthdays Make Strange Bedfellows

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 10, 2018

Many common birthdays in this broadcast. In the second hour, Laura Nyro shares her day with hipster Bobby Troup, who celebrates his centennial this month; followed by a shout-out to Dizzy Gillespie, born the same day as Beat poet Fran Landesman, whose songs will be highlighted in the final hour. Playlist Miggy Augmented Orchestra ...