Results for "Bobby Broom"

News: Radio

eJazzRadio July 19-27 2009 - Playlist!

July 20, 2009

After two weeks away at Toronto Downtown Jazz, Montreal Jazz Festival and Quebec City Music Festival - we're back with a new show with plenty new sides. The Brenan Brothers, Dave Douglas, Bobby Broom, Chris Pasin, Frank Glover, Monterey Jazz Quartet, Laurence Hobgood, along with The Bad Plus, Kurt Elling, and Karin Allyson. Play eJazzRadio Now! ...

News: Performance / Tour

Bobby Broom to Play Birdland NYC on 8/18 in Support of New Monk CD

July 13, 2009

Just three weeks after its release, Bobby Broom Plays for Monk is one of the most-played CDs in the country. Featuring the Chicago-based guitarist with his longtime working trio, the CD is currently placed at #5 with a bullet on the JazzWeek national airplay chart. Broom is taking advantage of his exposure on jazz radio by ...

Article: Live Review

TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival 2009

by Alain Londes
July 10, 2009

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 ...

Article: Album Review

Bobby Broom: Plays For Monk

by Mark Corroto
June 16, 2009

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 ...

Article: Album Review

Bobby Broom: Plays for Monk

by John Barron
June 14, 2009

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 ...

News: Recording

"Bobby Broom Plays for Monk" is New CD from Guitarist Bobby Broom and His Working Trio

May 27, 2009

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 ...

Article: Album Review

Kobie Watkins: Involved

by John Barron
May 18, 2009

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. ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby Broom

January 18, 2009

Album

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.

Video

Naptown Blues

Featuring the music of Bobby Broom
Duration: 5:06
May 15, 2008

Guitarist Bobby Broom is seen here in his 2006 concert recital for completion of his master's degree in jazz pedagogy at Northwestern University. He's performing Oliver Nelson's arrangement of Wes Montgomery's composition, Naptown Blues. Along with Bobby are his mates, bassist Dennis Carroll and Kobie Watkins on drums with members of the Northwestern University Jazz Ensemble (2005-06) and additional special guests Pat Mallinger on tenor saxophone, Caroline Davis and Greg Ward - altos, Pharez Whitted, Victor Garcia and Gerald Bailey - trumpets and Andrew Zelm - trombone.