Bob Brozman

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Bob Brozman at the 2010 Italian Musicastrada

Bob Brozman , actually Robert Charles Brozman (* 8. March 1954 in New York City ; † 23. April 2013 in Ben Lomond in Santa Cruz , California ) was an American guitarist and ethnomusicologist , which lies next to jazz and blues and the World Music felt obliged.

Life and work

Bob was confronted with music from an early age. He started playing guitar at the age of six and found the sound to be a great challenge. As a student of music and ethnomusicology at the University of Washington , he worked with a large number of musicians spanning the globe, from the Okinawa Islands to Ghana . The number of musical styles he heard was correspondingly large: gypsy jazz, calypso , blues, ragtime, Hawaiian music and Caribbean music. Brozman became a sought-after accompanist and a fund of world music of the 20th century. Brozman traveled all year round between North America and Europe, where he performed mainly, but also in Australia, Asia and Africa. At the end of his life, the Hawaiian guitarist owned an impressive collection of instruments that he had brought back from his travels around the world.

He has recorded numerous albums and has been awarded the American Guitar Player Listening Prize for the best blues musician three times . In 1999 Brozman and Woody Mann founded a guitar school that taught over 120 students annually in locations in California, New York and Canada. In the years 2000 to 2005 he landed five times in the European top ten of world music , as he had become more popular in Europe than in his home country in the last ten years.

Bob Brozman was found dead on the evening of April 23, 2013 at his home in the Ben Lomond housing estate near the California city of Santa Cruz. According to his long-time producer and collaborator Daniel Thomas, Brozman committed suicide because, due to the aftermath of a car accident in 1980, he was only able to move his hands while playing the guitar with pain. Another possible motive came to light in the months after his death when Brozman was accused of child sexual abuse from various quarters and was on the verge of trial, according to former tour manager Gary Atkinson. Atkinson also stated Brozman molested his (Atkinsons) then nine-year-old daughter.

Discography

  • 1981 Blue Hula Stomp
  • 1983 Snapping the Strings
  • 1985 Hello Central ... Give Me Dr. jazz
  • 1988 Devil's Slide
  • 1989 Remembering the songs of our youth , with The Tau Moe Family
  • 1992 A Truckload of Blues
  • 1993 Slide a go-go
  • 1995 Blues' Round the Bend
  • 1997 Golden Slide
  • 1997 Kika Kila Meets Ki Ho'Alu , with Ledward Kaapana
  • 1998 Kosmik Blues & Groove
  • 1999 Four hands sweet and hot , with Cyril Pahinui
  • 1999 Ocean Blues , with Djeli Moussa Diawara
  • 1999 The Running Man
  • 2000 Get together , with Woody Mann (USA)
  • 2000 JIN JIN , with Takashi Hirayasu (Okinawa)
  • 2000 In the saddle , with Ledward Kaapana
  • 2000 Tone poems III , with Mike Auldridge and David Grisman
  • 2001 Nankuru Naisa , with Takashi Hirayasu (Okinawa)
  • 2001 Live Now
  • 2002 Digdig , with René Lacaille (Riverboat - World Music Network)
  • 2002 Rolling through this world , with Jeff Lang (Australia)
  • 2003 Mahima , avec Debashish Bhattacharya (Inde)
  • 2003 Metric Time
  • 2005 Songs of the volcano , CD and DVD with five string bands from Papua New Guinea
  • 2006 Blues Reflex (Ruf Records)
  • 2007 Lumiere (Riverboat / World Music Network)
  • 2008 Post industrial blues
  • 2010 Six Days in Down
  • 2012 Fire in the mind

Web links

Commons : Bob Brozman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of his homepage
  2. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur, Nachrichten April 26, 2013 10:30 am
  3. ↑ Internationally Beloved World Blues Musician, Bob Brozman, Passes Away at Age 59 . (PDF; 55 kB) Press release on Bob Brozman's homepage from April 25, 2013. Accessed April 28, 2013.
  4. ↑ Robin Denselow: Bob Brozman obituary. Guitarist and ethnomusicologist who played with an international array of musicians. Guardian, April 28, 2013
  5. ↑ Bob Brozman . Acoustic, Folk and Country Blues, June 29, 2013
  6. ↑ Steve Palopoli: The Dark Side of Genius. santacruz.com, June 4, 2013
  7. ↑ Steve Palopoli: The Life and Legacy of Bob Brozman. ( Memento of May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) santacruz.com, April 30, 2013 (Gary Atkinson in the comment area)
personal data
SURNAME Brozman, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brozman, Robert Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American guitarist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2013
Place of death Ben Lomond (California)