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News: Contest

Enter the "Bobby Broom - Upper West Side Story" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

July 21, 2012

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Origin Records “Bobby Broom - Upper West Side Story“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on August 20th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Bobby Broom at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! ...

Song of the Day

Call Me a Cab

July 11, 2012

Album: Upper West Side Story
By Bobby Broom
Label: Origin Records
Released: 0
Duration: 6:13

Article: Interview

Delving Into the Deep Blue

by Trish Richardson
July 2, 2012

"Blood may be thicker than water, but you can't live without water." --Novelist Jane Porter While the members of Deep Blue Organ Trio were not brought together by shared parentage, guitarist Bobby Broom, drummer Chris Rockingham and organist Chris Foreman share a closeness, mutual respect, and loyalty that many families would envy. Their bond ...

Article: Album Review

Deep Blue Organ Trio: Wonderful!

Read "Wonderful!" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 1, 2012

Wonderful! presents the Deep Blue Organ Trio's jazz take on nine Stevie Wonder hit songs that span Talking Book (Motown, 1972) to Songs in the Key of Life (Motown, '76), plus Wonder's 1969 hit single “My Cherie Amour" and “Tell Me Something Good," Chaka Khan's breakout from Rags to Rufus (MCA, '74) by Rufus (and which ...

Article: From the Inside Out

Missives from Distant Fronts

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 25, 2012

Bio RitmoLa Verdad Electric Cowbell Records2011 In September 2011, Bio Ritmo, the ten-piece salsa band from Richmond (Virginia), celebrated twenty years together, no small accomplishment for a band originally formed (says its official company bio) “as a percussion ensemble brought together by two misplaced Puerto Ricans who met ...

News: Recording

Bobby Broom's New Trio CD, "Upper West Side Story," Due For May 15 Release By Origin Records

April 26, 2012

Bobby Broom’s new CD, Upper West Side Story, is the guitarist’s tenth album in as many years—the culmination of a golden period of prolific creativity and steady artistic growth. Five of those recordings have featured his jazz trio with bassist Dennis Carroll and drummer Kobie Watkins, who’ve worked as a unit since 1997. Origin Records, Broom’s ...

Article: Interview

Bobby Broom: Building a Legacy

by R.J. DeLuke
April 23, 2012

Guitarist Bobby Broom had a feel for music at a very young age. He was exposed first to clarinet and violin as a child, but they didn't have an impact on him. Eventually, an old guitar came through the household. It had four strings across an instrument with a small neck. “I didn't know ...

News: Performance / Tour

Deep Blue Organ Trio at Jazz Alley Tues - Wed

February 6, 2012

Bobby Broom and The Deep Blue Organ Trio February 7-8, 2012 JAZZ ALLEY 2033 6th Avenue Reservations: 206.441.9729 Show at 7:30pm The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley presents Bobby Broom and The Deep Blue Organ Trio, for two nights, touring in support of their latest release ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby Broom

January 18, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Bobby Broom's birthday today! Bobby Broom was a young teenager when he first heard Thelonious Monk’s piano playing. He had a copy of Bird and Diz, the classic 1950 album on which Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were joined by Monk, Curly Russell, and Buddy Rich. Within a few years, while ...

Album

Wonderful!

By Bobby Broom

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Tell Me Something Good; If You Really Love Me; Jesus Children of America; My Cheri Amour; Golden Lady; You Haven't Done Nothin'; It ain't No Use; As; You've Got it Bad Girl.