As NIU and the world around us deals with a global pandemic, artists continue to find ways to express themselves. In the College of Visual and Performing arts the learning and teaching hasn’t stopped, it’s simply evolved to meet the needs and limitations of the situation. Over the coming days, we’ll be featuring how NIU […]
Glass ceilings aside, jazz’s die-hard, urban six-stringer Bobby Broom, remains relevant in today’s jazz world. His recordings typically find themselves among the top spots on national jazz radio charts. When performing live with either of his units, the Bobby Broom Trio or the Organi–Sation, whether at home or abroad, audiences receive a deeply heartfelt show, […]
Since our last interview, he has been doing a bit of everything. Bobby provides JGT with an update.“I’m deep into my very first semester as Assistant Professor of Jazz Guitar/Jazz Studies at Northern Illinois University, which is extremely exciting. I’m teaching a bunch of students (12), plus I have a Jazz Improvisation course that I […]
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 Kobie Watkins.Broom […]
Heralded player and renown educator, it sure does look that way…Bobby Broom holds a Master’s of Music degree in jazz pedagogy from Northwestern University, and has taught at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music, DePaul University, North Park University and Chicago’s American Conservatory of Music. He was recently appointed Assistant Professor of jazz […]
the Swan Song of Evanston’s Popular Steakhouse and Historic Jazz Spot I started playing at Pete Miller’s in 1996, two years after it had transitioned from being a Bennigan’s family restaurant. Shortly after I began working there, my then-girlfriend Maureen began doing the lunch shift there as a waitress. Her ascent seemed destined and she […]
LIVE AT LUCILLE’S: GREAT PERFORMANCES FROM THE WORLD OF JAZZBobby Broom’s Organi-sationEpisode 1 | 56m 59sGuitarist Bobby Broom cut his teeth performing with the likes of Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, and Dr. John and has amassed a substantial body of work as a leader over the years. In this special performance, the trio […]
The Jazz Congress presents the 2019 Bruce Lundvall Visionary Award to Darlene Chan, a tireless, behind the scenes advocate for so many artists and the music at large. Also in this video, following the award presentation, members of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers gather onstage for a once-in-a-lifetime reunion following the presentation, hosted by Celine Peterson.Panelists: Terence […]
A member of the community of musicians that are part of a great tradition of jazz that continues to live and operate in Chicago, was the tragically unheralded guitarist named Roland Faulkner. I first met Roland in much the same surreptitious manner. It was the latter part of the 1980s and I was on […]
It’s no secret that Tennessee is home to a lot of great music. Music fans around the world know about the blues on Beale Street in Memphis and the rich history of country music in the Music City, but jazz in Knoxville? People in the broader world may know that we are home to the […]