Last year, I wrote a Take Five piece dedicated to Thelonious Monk Tribute Albums That Aren’t Terrible. Add Bobby Broom’s latest record, Plays For Monk, to that list. Raised in New York, Broom eventually settled in Chicago, where he’s now seen as a local luminary. Being Sonny Rollins’ guitarist will get you there, as will playing every Wednesday (when […]
I was going through some old desktop files and found this interview from 2006 or ’07. At that time, the magazine it was for was called, JazzImprov. The interview is of the tl:dr (too long, didn’t read) variety, but contains so many nuggets that I’ve decided to post it here so that those of you […]
Bobby Broom, “Ask Me Now,” Bobby Broom Plays for Monk Booby Broom was born and raised in New York City but moved to Chicago about 30 years ago. While versed in trad jazz (bebop and post-bop), Broom draws from a variety of American music forms such as funk, soul, R&B and blues. Here’s a song from […]
Bobby Broom “Soul Fingers” This is the type of record I love and what I have advocated for jazz players forever. A well-chosen playlist of classic rock, soul and pop music; rendered in a breezy and confident style. Broom is the tastiest of the tasteful soul-jazz six stringers, and herein with his “Organi-sation” an organ-based […]
Two threads run through the nearly four-decade career of Chicago-based guitarist Bobby Broom. One is his love for the Hammond B3. (As a teen, he turned to jazz after hearing the album Black Talk by organ legend Charles Earland — in whose groups Broom would later perform — and he spent most of this century… […]