Bobby Broom — artist
Bobby Broom has no upcoming shows listed. 1 past show tracked on Ckord, most recently at Mezzrow on Tue, Oct 17, sharing stages with 109 other acts. Follow to get notified when new dates are announced.
Bobby Broom was born in Harlem, New York, on January 18, 1961, and raised on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He began studying the guitar at age 12, concentrating on jazz under the aegis of Harlem-based guitar instructor Jimmy Carter. A 16-year-old prodigy at the High School of Music and Art (now known as the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts), he played in the jazz ensemble and was awarded for Outstanding Jazz Improvisation during his senior year. Chaperoned by Weldon Irvine (an early mentor of his, composer for Freddie Hubbard and Horace Silver, bandleader for Nina Simone, and lyricist of “To Be Young, Gifted and Black”), the 16-year-old Broom found himself in an East Side NYC jazz club for the purpose of being taught to sit in. That lesson became a reality for Broom when Al Haig, pianist for Charlie Parker, invited him to join in for a couple of tunes. Impressed by the youngster’s playing, Haig offered him the chance to play with him at Gregory’s on the Upper East Side whenever he wanted. Broom ended up playing two or three times a week there, and also got to play, with great awe, with another notable Bird keyboardist, Walter Bishop, Jr. Broom was soon pursued by an even greater jazz legend, Sonny Rollins, whose guitarist at the time, Aurell Ray, saw Broom play in Irvine’s musical, Young, Gifted and Broke, in Brooklyn, and arranged to have him meet Rollins. After playing with the tenor colossus at a rehearsal, Broom was asked to go on the road with him. Still in high school, Broom (and his parents) declined.
Bobby Broom has no upcoming shows listed right now.
Bobby Broom past shows
- RUSSELL MALONE & BOBBY BROOM — Mezzrow — Oct 17, 2023
Venues Bobby Broom has played
- Mezzrow — 1 show, last played 2023
Artists who have played the same stages as Bobby Broom
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- Matt Wilson — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Ben Allison — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Steve Cardenas — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Joe Abba — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Alejandro Luna — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- George Nazos — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Trifon Dimitrov — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Cameron Campbell — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Vanisha-Arleen Gould — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Tamuz Nissim — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Steve LaSpina — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Jon Davis — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Allan Harris — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Eviatar Slivnik — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Aaron Goldberg — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Johnny O'Neal — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Brandi Disterheft — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Hamish Smith — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Naama Gheber — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Henry Hey — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
- Kendra Shank — 1 shared venue, via Mezzrow
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