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Chicago Jazz Orchestra: More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery
by Jack Bowers
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 ...
Continue ReadingBobby Broom, Eric Alexander, Amina Figarova, Jeremy Pelt and more
by Benjamin Boddie
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 ...
Continue ReadingHammonds Abound: Koppel Blade Koppel and The Bobby Broom Organ-isation
by Doug Collette
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 ...
Continue ReadingThe Bobby Broom Organi-Sation: Jamalot
by Chris May
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 ...
Continue ReadingRon Blake: Mistaken Identity
by Jack Bowers
Once hailed as a promising young lion, Puerto Rico-born saxophonist Ron Blake is more a crafty old fox these days, bringing his wealth of experience and undeniable talent to bear on Mistaken Identity, his first album as leader in fifteen years. To assure a broad comfort zone, Blake invited guitarist Bobby Broom, a longtime friend and music partner, to join him alongside drummer Kobie Watkins and bassists Nat Reeves (five numbers) and Reuben Rogers (four). Among the ...
Continue ReadingBobby Broom: Keyed Up
by Jack Bowers
On his latest album, Keyed Up, the well-traveled and well-respected guitarist Bobby Broom pays tribute to pianists “who have been an important part of [his] musical life." As he writes, ..."many great pianists who didn't need to include my six-string version of what they could already do harmonically and melodically saw fit to include me. Perhaps, among other things, this is my way of saying 'thank you' to them." Another way to thank them may have been ...
Continue ReadingBobby Broom And Bobby Watson: Tried And True
by Doug Collette
The conventions of traditional jazz can provide a refreshing simplicity. If proffered with sufficient panache and ingenuity, the music transcends its superficial stylistic principles and tenders what amounts to a reboot of the psyche. So it is with Bobby Broom's Keyed Up and Bobby Watson's Back Home In Kansas City; with both of these albums, the artists draw on their own history and by extension, that of jazz at large, using their cumulative knowledge and technical expertise to formulate long-players ...
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