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Phil Broadhurst

Born: June 26, 1949

Phil Broadhurst was one of New Zealand’s leading jazz artists. Pianist, composer and educator, he became the first jazz musician to be awarded the MNZM for services to jazz in 2001.

He was Head of Jazz Studies at the New Zealand School of Music (Massey University, Auckland) from 2000 to 2016, and in 2008 was awarded an MPhil for his thesis on French jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani. A well-known broadcaster, he presented the weekly jazz programme The Art of Jazz on Radio New Zealand Concert for over 20 years. His numerous credits include performing at major jazz festivals and events in New Zealand, Australia, the USA, UK and France, and collaborating with many jazz greats visiting NZ, such as Johnny Griffin, Ronnie Scott, and Scott Hamilton.

Inverted

By Auckland Jazz Orchestra

Label: Rattle Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Inverted; Pukeko; Pat; Positif; Black Suede Boots; Scoreless; First Shot; Flaubert's Dance; Drive; Straight and Narrow.

Soliloquy

By Phil Broadhurst

Label: Rattle Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Five for Two; Keep It This Way; Winged One; You Stepped Out of a Dream; Scoreless; Gretel's Breadcrumbs; Sambal; Reflection; Byways; Some Other Time; Sing Me Softly of the Blues; Resolution; Simply in C; Soliloquy.

Positif

By Phil Broadhurst

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: I'm Busy; Queenstown; Positif; Sorrento Sunset; Sunside; K.B.; Just Enough for Two; Black Suede Boots.

The Rodger Fox Big Band: Plays New Zealand

by Jack Bowers
September 21, 2016

Although trombonist Rodger Fox has somehow managed to keep New Zealand's finest big band alive and swinging for more than four decades, the band has never devoted an entire album to music written and arranged by New Zealanders--until now. That's not to say that Fox and the band have ignored music from their home country. Over ...

Panacea

By Phil Broadhurst

Label: Rattle Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Drive; Japanese Shadows; Panacea; Inverted; Precious Metal; Wheeler of Fortune; Knee Lever; Pukeko; Ludo; Absent Friends; Japanese Shadows solo reprise.

Flaubert's Dance

By Phil Broadhurst

Label: Rattle Records (New Zealand)
Released: 2013
Track listing: First Shot; Integrity; Flaubert's Dance; Straight and Narrow; Stretched; The 21st, Domain; Loping; Scoreless.

Phil Broadhurst Quartet: Flaubert's Dance

by Florence Wetzel
July 3, 2013

The nineteenth century author Gustave Flaubert was famous for his phrase le mot juste, meaning “the right word." Flaubert believed in exactitude of expression, and his work is a testament to the harmony that results from precision. It's therefore not surprising that New Zealand pianist Phil Broadhurst has invoked the author on his superb Flaubert's Dance. ...

Delayed Reaction

By Phil Broadhurst

Label: Rattle Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Brazilian Like; Delayed Reaction; Guadeloupe; Orange; Matai Bay; Pat; Looking Up; La Champagne; Edward; One Night in the Hotel.

Phil Broadhurst Quartet: Delayed Reaction

by Florence Wetzel
August 20, 2012

For several decades now, pianist Phil Broadhurst has been one of New Zealand's most essential jazz musicians. In addition to his active performance schedule, he is head of the Jazz Studies department at the New Zealand School of Music in Auckland, he hosts a weekly nationwide broadcast called “The Art of Jazz," and he is co-author ...