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TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival 2009
by Alain Londes
TD Canada Trust Toronto International Jazz Festival Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 26-July 5, 2009 The TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival enjoyed its 23rd edition this year with a structure similar to that of recent years. The Mainstage concerts in front of City Hall were a nightly focal point as well ...
Bobby Broom: Plays For Monk
by Mark Corroto
Monk lives! Perhaps it can be said that Thelonious Monk has had many lives. Ever since the unique pianist established his repertoire in the 1940s and '50s musicians have, probably beginning with saxophonist Steve Lacy, taken up the task of covering the now infamous music. With Plays for Monk, guitarist Bobby Broom delivers one of the ...
Bobby Broom: Plays for Monk
by John Barron
Chicago-based guitarist Bobby Broom pays tribute to jazz icon Thelonious Monk on Plays For Monk, a fresh take on eight of the late pianist's compositions, along with a couple of standards associated with Monk's repertoire. Joining Broom for his third release on Seattle's Origin Records are his long time trio mates, bassist Dennis Carroll and drummer ...
"Bobby Broom Plays for Monk" is New CD from Guitarist Bobby Broom and His Working Trio
Bobby Broom Plays for Monk is the third of a trilogy of Origin recordings made with the Chicago-based guitarist’s adventuresome working trio--bassist Dennis Carroll and drummer Kobie Watkins--and displaying Broom’s indisputable mastery as a voice on modern jazz guitar. Song and Dance(2007) emphasized pop tunes Broom grew up with as well as several affecting originals, while ...
Kobie Watkins: Involved
by John Barron
Perhaps the title to drummer Kobie Watkins' debut, Involved, makes reference to the Chicago native's involvement with some of the highest profile jazz artists around. A regular in the bands of saxophonist Sonny Rollins, guitarist Bobby Broom, and vocalist Kurt Elling, Watkins has proven himself a stand-out accompanist, possessing a confident blend of fire and sensitivity. ...
The Way I Play
By Bobby Broom
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Strike Up the Band; Donna Lee; Fly Me to the Moon; Airegin; Body and Soul; Unit 7; The Surrey With the Fringe on Top; Inception.
Naptown Blues
Featuring the music of Bobby Broom
Duration: 5:06
Bobby Broom: Folk Music & The Way I Play
by Paul C. Dowd
Deep Blue Organ Trio Folk Music Origin 2007 Bobby Broom The Way I Play Origin 2007 One casualty of jazz' precipitous decline in popularity since the '70s ...
Bobby Broom: The Way I Play
by Mark F. Turner
Guitarist Bobby Broom could have easily taken a different musical direction when he released the popular contemporary/funk jazz album, Clean Sweep (GRP) in 1981. But with his early influences, guitarists Wes Montgomery, early George Benson and mentor/saxophonist Sonny Rollins, he has developed his own unique style on recordings such as Song and Dance (Origin, 2007). This ...
