Jazz Articles about Bobby Broom

About Bobby Broom

Album Review

Guitarist Bobby Broom is no stranger to the music of tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, having spent two tours of duty with various Rollins groups which, taken together, add up to a decade (1982-'87 and 2005-'10). Notes of Thanks is Broom's way of expressing his gratitude to Rollins for those years in the trenches and the many valuable lessons he learned there, the best way he knows how: through his music. Rollins wrote every song on Notes of Thanks ...

Multiple Reviews

Phil Haynes and Bobby Broom: Empathetic Abandon

by Doug Collette
May 14, 2026

Across the broad spectrum of jazz, courage takes many forms. In the case of percussionist Phil Haynes and guitarist Bobby Broom, it is the diametrically (deceptively) opposed approaches of free playing vs. carefully-crafted homage. Accordingly, the former continues his prolific and peripatetic career through the novel get-together of musicians who have never played together. Meanwhile, the latter acts as a lightning rod for mutual inspiration arising from shared experience in a variety of contexts. Hearing snippets from either album reveals ...

Radio & Podcasts

Blue Moods, Bobby Broom, Billy Childs, Catherine Russell and more

by Benjamin Boddie
May 8, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Blue Moods, Bobby Broom, Billy Childs, Catherine Russell, Erica Von Kleist, Mike Clement, Nat Reeves, Judith Owens, Taylor Roberts, Bobby Matos Heritage Ensemble, Bobby Sanabria Big Band, Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet, Juan Carlos Quintero, Rebecca Rafla, Joe Gransden, Chick Corea, Audrey Ochoa, Andrea Miller, Steve Wilson, Ben Markley Big Band, Brian Lynch, Pat Bianchi, Bria Skonberg, Marie-Paule Franke, Ted Rosenthal Trio, Ulysses Owens Jr, Hendrik Meurkens, Tierney Sutton & Tamir Hendelman, Walter ...

Album Review

Chicago Jazz Orchestra: More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery

Read "More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 21, 2025

When the Chicago Jazz Orchestra decided to record a tribute to Wes Montgomery, the choice of who would sit in for the legendary guitarist was obvious: Bobby Broom, a stellar guitarist in his own right who has called Chicago home for more than forty years and had performed a concert version of the album at Chicago's Harold Washington Library in 2004. Once Broom agreed to accept the assignment, the sailing was relatively smooth, as CJO music director Jeff Lindberg assembled ...

Radio & Podcasts

Bobby Broom, Eric Alexander, Amina Figarova, Jeremy Pelt and more

by Benjamin Boddie
July 3, 2024

It's All About the Music ... Fantastic music by Bobby Broom, Eric Alexander, Zaccai Curtis, Amina Figarova, Ray Obiedo, Gabriel Genest, Jon Gordon, Ben Sidran, Stuart Mack, Queen Esther, Allen Dennard, Rachel Z, Radam Schwartz, Tony Monaco, Dayna Stephens, The Jazz Defenders, Dave Bass, Nicole Glover, Jeremy Pelt and more. Playlist Bobby Broom “Superstition" from Jamalot (Steele Records) 00:00 Eric Alexander “Serenade To A Cuckoo" from Timing Is Everything (Cellar Music Group) 06:14 Zaccai Curtis “Someday My Prince ...

Multiple Reviews

Hammonds Abound: Koppel Blade Koppel and The Bobby Broom Organ-isation

by Doug Collette
June 11, 2024

Is there an organ trio revival underway in the jazz universe? Boston has bequeathed the Tim Carman Organ Trio, while western New York state has bestowed Organ Fairchild upon us. Meanwhile, the Tony Monaco Trio continues to wend its way along the golden road of seemingly unlimited devotion. Now, guitarist Bobby Broom has deigned to revisit some of his best work in that setting at the same time Benjamin Koppel embarks upon a digression from his more ambitious projects to ...

Album Review

The Bobby Broom Organi-Sation: Jamalot

by Chris May
May 21, 2024

When Jimmy Smith brought the tablets down from the mountain, one of the commandments decreed that the job of an organ trio was to mix jazz standards with pop tunes and mash them all up into a seamless joyous brew. Guitarist Bobby Broom keeps to the original recipe on the live album Jamalot, recorded in 2014 and 2019, the earlier tracks from a tour supporting Steely Dan. It is his second disc with his Organi-Sation trio completed by Ben Paterson ...