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Bob Brookmeyer: Stay Out of the Sun
by Matthew Wuethrich
In valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer's biography, one can trace the map of jazz's history, both musical and personal. Brookmeyer has spent time in many of jazz's major ensembles, including Basie, Thornhill, Ellington and Lewis, and small groups, playing with Mulligan, Getz, Giuffre and Mingus. Along the way he has taken part in and contributed to the ...
A Bob Brookmeyer Bonanza
by Elliott Simon
Turning 75 this year, valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer brought his New Art Orchestra to town last month at the IAJE and a “Battle of the Bands” at the Village Vanguard. He endures as a master of the “cool” and continues to produce musical permutations resulting in elaborate and complex compositions that are clear and pure: music, ...
Bob Brookmeyer and Kenny Wheeler: Island
by Rex Butters
Veterans Bob Brookmeyer and Kenny Wheeler explore shared sensibilities on Island, a collection that could have fit comfortably in Wheeler’s ECM catalogue, but instead spearheads the resuscitated Artists House label. Although they’ve not recorded together before, they set eachother up and finish eachother’s thoughts like a long married couple. The island in question seems more north ...
Waltzing with Zoe
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Seesaw; Child at Play; For Maria; Waltzing with Zoe; Fireflies; K.P.
The Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra: Waltzing with Zoe
by Jack Bowers
Spectacular. There’s no other way to describe “Seesaw,” the opening number on the second album by Bob Brookmeyer’s German–based New Art Orchestra. A shame the Grammy Awards don’t include one for best big–band composition (even though there is a ludicrous prize for “best Jazz solo”), as “Seesaw” would win the honor going away. The highest compliment ...
Plays Piano: Holiday
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: The Man I Love; Summer Song; It Could Happen to You; Holiday; I Thought About You; I Should Care; Things Ain't What They Used to Be; Pastoral; Jan Likes; Stupid Song; Child Song; It Might as Well Be Spring
Madly Loving You
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Septuagenary Revels; Green Dreams; Anthem; Going on 29; A Nice Tie, a Pair of Socks...; A Small Prelude, You Will See It (If You Go There); Madly Loving You; Processional / Desiderata.
Bob Brookmeyer with the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra: Madly Loving You
by Jack Bowers
Kansas City–bred valve trombone master Bob Brookmeyer is top–billed on this handsomely conceived and superbly performed album because it was a gift from Ed Partyka’s Jazz Orchestra and a number of prominent composer / arrangers to Brookmeyer on his seventieth birthday in December 1999. Partyka, a Chicagoan who has lived since 1990 in Cologne, Germany, had ...
Bob Brookmeyer: Plays Piano: Holiday
by Dave Nathan
Being able to play more than one instrument is quite common in jazz, especially these days. Even moving between reed and horn is not unusual as Benny Carter, Jay Thomas and others have demonstrated. But moving from a trombone to a piano with sufficient confidence to make an album with the “second" instrument is more than ...
