Bobby Broom News

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and his band will perform a special benefit concert for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at the Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, NY.

As a guitarist whose love for jazz music began in the '70s, I was understandably excited to hear a few months ago, from a most reliable source, that Thelonious Monk really dug guitarist George Benson ! Benson was probably the most popular jazz guitarist of the '70s and those who know about the place of the guitar in jazz history understand that he ...

Last year, I wrote a Take Five piece dedicated to Thelonious Monk Tribute Albums That Aren't Terrible .

Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins has a reputation for performances of transcendent artistry, and he lived up to it Saturday evening at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.

Guitarist Bobby Broom may not have the kind of high profile that some of his Jazz contemporaries enjoy but he has the kind of rsum that would make a good many of them green with envy.

The Ralph Adams Lifetime Achievement Awards will be presented Sunday at the Jazz Kitchen to educator and composer David Baker, bassist Mingo Jones, trombonist Reggie DuValle, and drummer and club owner Al Coleman.

The Ralph Adams Lifetime Achievement Awards will be presented Sunday at the Jazz Kitchen to educator and composer David Baker, bassist Mingo Jones, trombonist Reggie DuValle, and drummer and club owner Al Coleman.

While perhaps not so innovative as Miles' quartets and quintets and Coltrane's trios and duos, Marsalis and his group conjure up the synergy of the great small combos in jazz history.

Thelonious Monk's compositions and piano playing are declarative and often angular.

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.