Stuart Broomer is a Canadian

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music critic '' The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of m ...

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, writer, jazz historian, and

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. He is a former editor with '' CODA'' magazine and currently works as an editor at

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. As a music critic he has written articles for

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Down Beat ''DownBeat'' (styled in all caps) is an American music magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm that it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1 ...

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Cadence Magazine ''Cadence: The Independent Journal of Creative Improvised Music'' is a quarterly review of jazz, blues and improvised music. The magazine covers a range of styles, from early jazz and blues to the avant-garde. Critic and historian Bob Rusch f ...

'', '' ParisTransatlantlic'' and '' Signal to Noise''. He has also authored more than 60 liner essays for musicians internationally. His book ''Time and Anthony Braxton'' () was published by

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in 2009. He is a member of the music faculty at

George Brown College The George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology is a public, fully accredited college (Canada), college of applied arts and technology with three campuses in downtown Toronto (Ontario, Canada). Like many other colleges in Ontario, George ...

. Broomer is a graduate of

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where he studied music composition and piano with

Samuel Dolin Samuel Joseph Dolin (22 August 1917 – 13 January 2002) was a Canadian composer, music educator, and arts administrator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a founding member of the Canadian League of Composers (CLC), he served as th ...

. As a pianist, he is best known for playing in the

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"Broomer, Mars &

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" in the 1970s and later the duo "Stuart Broomer & John Mars" during the 1980s, both of which included compositions by Broomer in their repertoire. The duo released a 1983 album, ''Annihilated Surprise'', on Ugly Dog Records. He is the father of

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Stephen Broomer."Mark Miller writing on my father, Stuart Broomer, for the May 18, 1978 issue of Downbeat." Stephen Broomer on Twitter
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