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JAZZIZ Magazine – Feb 2019 Issue – A Touch of Soul: Bobby Broom Covers Vintage Pop on His Latest Outing
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… […]
Jazz Album of the Week: Guitarist Bobby Broom’s Soul Fingers is Nothing to Sweep Under the Rug
February 25, 2019. Most young jazz musicians move to New York City to further their jazz careers. Bobby Broom moved away, to Chicago, and has become the patriarch of jazz guitar in the Second City over the last 30-plus years. Soul Fingers is his second album devoted primarily to reimagining the tunes that shaped the pop, funk, […]
Soul Fingers Airplay
Soul Fingers, the recently released album by Bobby Broom & the Organi–Sation, has remained in the top 10 on jazz radio in the United States since its release last October. That’s three straight months! Representing the debut recording of this group, which began as the opening touring act of the legendary chart topping group, Steely Dan, […]
“How Did You Learn to Play Through Changes?”
The other day I got a message on Facebook asking this question. It’s a good one, but not one that I’m asked that much. When I was trying to figure it out for myself, it was the biggest concern and dilemma in my musical life. Back then I was doing tons of daily listening to all […]
All Hail the Queen
There is something about this performance that speaks to one aspect of the history of America’s relationship to African American culture and vice versa. On display here are two eternal forces, both mothership vessels, one that carries black life itself and the other, the symbolic essence of that life with its past and present of […]
Larry Rosen – A Requiem by Bobby Broom
My heart is heavy. I just learned that Larry Rosen of GRP Records (Grusin-Rosen Productions) has passed, apparently due to brain cancer. I first met Larry in 1980, when I was just 19 years old. I was asked to sub for guitarist, Jeff Mironov, on a tour of Japan with Dave Grusin and the GRP […]
Bobby Broom’s Blog: Thoughts from a Grateful, Independent, Jazz Artist
In this moment in my musical life things are good and I take absolutely none of it for granted. The fact that I’ve had the chance to play organ–trio jazz with the Bobby Broom Organi-Sation for thousands of people per night, opening for Steely Dan in arenas, amphitheaters and concert halls all over North America, […]