Multi-intrumentalist, historian and educator Bob Brozman
was born in New York on March 8, 1954. His uncle, Barney
Josephson, was a prominent clubowner 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.
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. 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
for students of early, vintage blues and vintage guitar
afficianados, they're well worth looking for. 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. 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. He has also collaborated with a number of
musicians from around the world, including Hawaiian
music legends the Tau Moe Family, with whom Brozman
recorded Remembering the Songs of Our Youth.
He has his own website at: www.bobbrozman.com.
by Richard Skelly
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| 1981 |
Blue Hula Stomp |
Kicking Mule |
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| 1983 |
Snapping the Strings |
Kicking Mule |
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| 1985 |
Hello Central...Give Me Dr. Jazz |
Rounder |
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| 1988 |
Devil's Slide |
Rounder |
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| 1992 |
A Truckload of Blues |
Rounder |
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| 1994 |
Slide A Go-Go |
Sky Ranch |
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| 1995 |
Blues 'Round the Bend |
Sky Ranch |
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| 1997 |
Kika Kila Meets Ki Ho'Alu |
Dancing Cat |
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| 1997 |
Golden Slide |
Sky Ranch |
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| 1998 |
Kosmik Blues & Groove |
RDS Music |
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| 2000 |
Get Together |
Acoustic Music |
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| 2001 |
Live Now |
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| 2002 |
Rolling Through This World |
Shock |
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| 2006 |
Blues Reflex |
Ruf |
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| 2007 |
Lumiere |
Riverboat |
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| 2007 |
Post-Industrial Blues |
Ruf |
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| 2008 |
Songs of the Volcano |
Riverboat |
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| 1997 |
The Running Man |
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