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Bobby Broom: Building a Legacy
by R.J. DeLuke
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 it ...
Pat Mallinger Quartet featuring Bill Carrothers: Home on Richmond
by Dan McClenaghan
Minneapolis/St. Paul-bred Pete Mallinger, steeped in the tradition of saxophonists Charles Lloyd, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, opens Home on Richmond with Lloyd's “Third Floor Richard." The Chicago-based saxophonist's quartet takes the tune on a wild ride, like a jalopy with a bad wheel alignment careening down a mountain road with questionable brakes. It's a loose-jointed, ...
Ira Sullivan and Stu Katz: A Family Affair
by William Carey
Some numbers to ponder. Saxophonist/trumpeter Ira Sullivan is 80 years old; vibraphonist Stu Katz is 74. 57 years. That is how long Ira Sullivan and Stu Katz have been making music together. 64 years. The number of years that Joe Segal's the Jazz Showcase has been featuring great jazz. In 1954, the year Bill Haley and ...
Scott Burns: Passages
by Alex Marianyi
Chicago-based tenor saxophonist Scott Burns has said that he practices each exercise, pattern, or whatever else he may be working on until he gets it perfect. Five times in a row. The results of this type of practicing couldn't be any more obvious than on Passages, release by Origin in 2006. Through this rigorous study, Burns ...
In Walked Monk: Bobby Broom on His New Album and Personal Jazz Heroes
Bobby Broom was just a teenager when he became enamored with jazz, but even then he figured hed started too late. As the Chicago-based guitarist explains in the interview below, he realized even in 1976 that human mortality being what it is it would be years before he acquired the chops needed to play with his ...
Thelonious Monk Tributes: Bobby Broom & Dominic Duval/Jimmy Halperin
by Stuart Broomer
Bobby Broom Plays for Monk Origin Records 2009 Jimmy Halperin/Dominic Duval Monk Dreams No Business 2009 There's something almost contradictory about Monk compositions: they're insistently individualistic, built on odd ...
