Howard Brofsky

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Howard Brofsky (born May 2, 1927 in Brooklyn ; † October 17, 2013 ibid) was an American jazz musician (cornet, trumpet, mellophone ), author and university lecturer .

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Howard Brofsky studied trumpet with Nat Prager , briefly with Frankie Newton and composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He received his Masters and PhD from New York University on Italian Music of the 18th Century. Brofsky taught at Queens College; He has also taught at the University of Chicago , the University of British Columbia , Boston University and the University of Oslo . With a Fulbright scholarship, he studied and taught in France in 1953 and in Italy in 1972. The first recordings were made in Paris in 1955 with George Johnson and his Orchestra. He is co-author of the textbook The Art of Listening: Developing Musical Perception and has written articles on Italian music and jazz, among others. a. for the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the American National Biography . Brofksy set up a jazz master's program at Queens College, for which he brought jazz musicians such as Jimmy Heath , Donald Byrd and Roland Hanna to the institute. Brofsky also helped set up the Louis Armstrong House and Archives .

As a musician, Brofsky appeared again from 1974 with his own formations and in the band projects of his friend, the painter Larry Rivers , such as the East Thirteenth Street Band (recordings 1985) and the Climax Band . In 2000 he released the album 73 Down under his own name : Dr. Bebop , the recordings and a. with Michael Formanek , Larry Willis , Eliot Zigmund and Attila Zoller . He has also performed with Dexter Gordon , Jimmy Heath and David Amram . For his birthday he played annually at the Vermont Jazz Center , where he a. a. with Antonio Hart , Charles McPherson , Jimmy Heath, Jeb Patton , David Berkman and David Wong . In 1992 he and his family moved to Vermont , where he served as chairman of the Vermont Jazz Center before returning to Brooklyn twenty years later. There he performed regularly at Club DUMBO on Jay Street. In the field of jazz he was involved in six recording sessions between 1985 and 2000.

Publications (selection)

  • Howard Brofsky, Jeanne Bamberger: The Art of Listening: Developing Musical Perception . Harper and Row, 1969

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Obituary at Legacy.com
  2. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
  3. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 8, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Brofsky, Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 2013
Place of death Brooklyn