Bobby Broom
Travis Harrell
various CD's purchased here and there to give them a relisten. One
CD turned out to be a 'sleeper' at least in terms of my ears, Bobby
Broom's "No Hype Blues", Criss Cross Jazz, Criss 1109 CD, 1995
release.
Personnel are Bobby Broom (g), Ron Perillo (p), Peter Washington (b),
and Lewis Nash (d). The CD consists of eight tunes, of which four are
originals (three by Mr. Broom and one by Mr. Perillo).
IMO there's an uneveness in the CD, some works are clearly stronger
than others, and there's not a strong unifying theme in the album.
These problems are augmented by Broom's angular compositional and
playing style. But its his angular compositional and playing style
that provides the interest in the album. I'm hearing a lot of neat
stuff with Broom's playing, he has a unique voice on the guitar that's
based on the tradition but incorporates very modern and hip ideas
(sort of a cliche line but I ain't a professional reviewer). His
approach provides a lot of interesting surprises and he know's how to
play out without losing the listener. Bottom line, for those of you
who want to hear something different in the world of jazz guitar, this
CD is worth checking out.
Travis
ELOYJAZZ
>While recovering from the flu, I've been passing time pulling out
>various CD's purchased here and there to give them a relisten. One
>CD turned out to be a 'sleeper' at least in terms of my ears, Bobby
>Broom's "No Hype Blues", Criss Cross Jazz, Criss 1109 CD, 1995
>release.
Yeah I've Liked Bobby Broom since he
put out his first album. Then I heard his
"angular" playing stuff and thought "here is
a guy that wants to do something new!!!"
my hat (if I wore one) off to him.
As of late I keep hearing guit' player that keep drumming up old stuff.
I have two view on that: the first being what the heck are these guys doing?
they couldn't recapture the era... the other
being well maybe because they're a different person then the same vocabulary
will have a different context....,
I find my self, being 40ish, playing with some the bands I use to play with
and they have the same songs they were playing 25
years ago. BORING!!!! no forward motion. Althought I don't mind doing
the
same songs with a different approach but most times then not its the same old
RETRO CRAP.
Well at least I can keep making some change and not have to crack open a new
song book.
Eloy