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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, New York, and began playing the guitar when he was six.
He performed gypsy jazz, calypso, blues, ragtime, Hawaiian music, and Caribbean music and collaborated with musicians from India, Africa, Japan, Papua New Guinea, and Réunion. He has been called 'an instrumental wizard' and 'a walking archive of 20th Century American music'.[citation needed] Brozman touring often in North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa. He recorded numerous albums and won the Guitar Player Readers' Poll three times for Best Blues, Best World, and Best Slide Guitarist. In 1999, Brozman and Woody Mann founded International Guitar Seminars, which hosts over 120 students annually at sites in California, New York, and Canada. From 2000 to 2005 his collaborations landed in the European Top 10 for World Music five times.[citation needed]
He was an adjunct professor in the Department of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University, in Sydney, Australia.
Brozman was well known for his use of National resonator instruments from the 1920s and 1930s and National Resophonic resonator instruments. He also used Weissenborn-style hollow-neck acoustic steel guitars. Among his National instruments were a baritone 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 committed suicide on April 23, 2013.
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 (2000)
Jin Jin/Firefly, with Takashi Hirayasu (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)
Ocean Blues, with Djeli Moussa Diawara (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)
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