Bob Brozman
Autobiography
| BORN: March 8, 1954, New York, NY
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Multi-instrumentalist,
historian and educator Bob Brozman was born in New York on March 8, 1954.
His uncle, Barney Josephson, was a prominent club owner who ran Cafe
Society in Greenwich Village, one of the first places in New York, or anywhere,
where Black and White musicians played on stage together.
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Brozman studied
music and ethnomusicology at Washington University in St. Louis. Brozman
is not only a master of classic blues from the '20s and '30s, but also a
competent performer of early jazz and ragtime.
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In the mid-'70s while still in
college, he would make trips down south to find, interview and play with the
older blues artists from the 1920s and '30s whom he admired. Brozman
recorded several fine albums in the early and mid-'80s for the Kicking Mule and
Rounder labels, and though they may not have been reissued on compact disc, for
students of early, vintage blues and vintage guitar aficionados, they're well
worth digging out of the vinyl shops.
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Brozman's albums include Blue
Hula Stomp (1981) and Snapping the Strings (1983), both
for the California-based Kicking Mule label.
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In 1985, he recorded Hello
Central, Give Me Dr. Jazz for the Massachusetts-based Rounder label and
followed up in 1988 with Devil's Slide.
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For die-hard blues fans
who seek an album devoid of any of the other genres Brozman so easily
interprets (like ragtime and calypso), the album to get is Truckload of
Blues, a 1992 Rounder release. ~ Richard Skelly, All Music Guide
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