Bob Brozman (March 8, 1954 – April 23, 2013) was an American guitarist and
ethnomusicologist.
Biography
Brozman was born to a Jewish family in
Long Island
Long Island is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York (state), New York state, extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It constitutes a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land are ...
, New York, and began playing the guitar when he was six.
He was an adjunct professor in the Department of Contemporary Music Studies at
Macquarie University
Macquarie University ( ) is a Public university, public research university in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the Sydney metropolitan area. ...
, in Sydney, Australia.
Brozman played
National resonator instruments from the 1920s and 1930s. He also used
Weissenborn-style hollow-neck acoustic
steel guitar
A steel guitar () is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conventional guitar i ...
s. Among his National instruments were a
baritone
A baritone is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the bass (voice type), bass and the tenor voice type, voice-types. It is the most common male voice. The term originates from the ...
version of the tricone guitar, which was designed in conjunction with him in the mid- to late 1990s. This instrument is part of National's range of products. Brozman's book ''The History and Artistry of National Resonator Instruments'', a guide to National Guitars from 1927 to 1941, includes a list serial numbers and production dates.
Brozman was a member of
R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders from 1978 until his death in 2013.
[Lynch, Megan]
"The Cheap Suit Serenaders,"
AllMusic.com. Accessed Nov. 17, 2019.
Brozman committed suicide on April 23, 2013,
amid allegations of
child molestation.
[Palopoli, Steve]
"The Dark Side of Genius,"
SantaCruz.com (June 4, 2013). He was survived by a wife and a daughter from a previous marriage.
Discography
* ''Your Pal'' (1977)
* ''Blue Hula Stomp'' (1981)
* ''Snapping the Strings'' (1983)
* ''Hello Central...Give Me Dr. Jazz'' (1985)
* ''Devil's Slide'' (1988)
* ''A Truckload of Blues'' (1992)
* ''Slide a Go-Go'' (1994)
* ''Blues 'Round the Bend'' (1995)
* ''Golden Slide'' (1997)
* ''Kika Kila Meets Ki Ho'Alu'', with
Ledward Kaapana (1997)
* ''Kosmik Blues & Groove'' (1998)
* ''The Running Man'' (1999)
* ''Four Hands Sweet & Hot'', with
Cyril Pahinui (1999)
* ''
Tone Poems 3'', with
David Grisman and
Mike Auldridge (2000)
* ''Get Together'' with
Woody Mann
Haywood Lee Mann (December 30, 1952 – January 27, 2022) was an American guitarist.
Biography
He was born in New York, where he studied acoustic guitar with blues guitarist Reverend Gary Davis from 1968–72. From 1973–78, he continued pri ...
(2000)
* ''Jin Jin/Firefly'', with Takashi Hirayasu (2000)
* ''Ocean Blues'', with
Djeli Moussa Diawara (2000)
* ''Live Now'' (2001)
* ''Nankuru Naisa'', with Takashi Hirayasu (2001)
* ''In the Saddle'', with Ledward Kaapana (2001)
* ''Digdig'' , with
René Lacaille (2002)
* ''Rolling Through This World'', with
Jeff Lang (2002)
* ''Mahima'', with
Debashish Bhattacharya (2003)
* ''Metric Time'' (2003)
* ''Songs of the Volcano'' (2005)
* ''Blues Reflex'' (2006)
* ''Lumiere'' (2007)
* ''Post-Industrial Blues'' (2007)
* ''Kani Wai'', with George Kahumoku, Jr. (2009)
* ''Six Days in Down'', with
Dónal O'Connor and John McSherry (2010)
* ''Fire in the Mind'' (2012)
References
Bibliography
* Douse, Cliff. ''The Guitarist Book of Guitar Players'', Music Maker Books, 1994,
* Gregory, Hugh. ''1000 Great Guitarists. Rock, Jazz, Country, Funk ...'', Balafon Books, 1994.
* Larkin, Colin. ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', Third edition, Macmillan, 1998,
External links
*
Bob Brozman biography - from his website.
Santa Cruz Weekly article on his death
Bear Creek Guitars Bob Brozman pageHomespuntapes.com
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1954 births
2013 suicides
2013 deaths
American blues guitarists
American male guitarists
Linguists from the United States
Guitarists from New York (state)
American slide guitarists
Weissenborn players
Suicides in California
Jewish American musicians
20th-century American guitarists
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American Jews