{"id":750,"date":"2015-10-19T16:15:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T14:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armadilloclub.org\/site\/?page_id=750"},"modified":"2020-08-06T18:11:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T16:11:16","slug":"bob-brozman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.armadilloclub.org\/site\/management-e-produzioni-2\/bob-brozman\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Brozman"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOB BROZMAN<\/h2>\n

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On April 23rd 2013, our dear friend Bob unexpectedly left us. We had the pleasure to work with him, sharing long talks, many adventures, and lots of laughter. It was a huge loss: Bob wasn\u2019t only a musical genius, but also had an intelligence, humanity and irony that nowadays are always harder to find.
\n<\/em>There are not enough words to comment on this sad event. What we can do is confirm that his memory and his philosophy of life will always live with us, illuminating and our musical paths. The closeness and relationship with his wife Haley Sage Robertson Brozman will continue forever, just as Sarzana \u2013 that he had chosen as his second homeland \u2013 will always be devoted to him.<\/em><\/p>\n

We invite all those who are spending stupid words to sully his memory and the greatness of his humanity to respect a dutiful silence. Bob was a great artist and a great man, unattainable for many.<\/em>
\nFor this reason we will never remove his biography and his presentation on our website; for us it’s like waiting for the next phone call or the next message, ready to go on tour together once more for a new musical adventure.<\/em>
\nWe send a warm greeting and heartfelt thanks to everyone who contacted us showing gratitude and love for his musical and life lesson. We will soon publish some of the moving greetings that we received.<\/em>
\nGoodbye Bob<\/em><\/p>\n

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THE KING OF NATIONAL RESOPHONIC GUITAR<\/strong><\/h3>\n

We are proud to represent this great musician, entertainer, ethnomusicologist in Italy.
\nBorn in New York in 1954, Bob discovered National resophonic guitars at the age of 14. Since then his ethnomusical studies have focused on this instrument, from its roots in the Delta Blues to Hawaiian music and beyond.
\nOver the years his passion for resophonic instruments has led him to own an incredible collection, and to be recognized unanimously as the greatest living connoisseur of the subject.
\nMaster of blues, slides, hot jazz, Hawaiian and Caribbean music, and great researcher of musical cultures in the world, he plays not only blues and Hawaiian, African, Indian, Japanese music, but also that of the Reunion Islands and Papua-New Guinea. Across continents he always meets extraordinary musicians, producing music sessions that are memorable for their energy, musical ideas \u2013 all in respect of authenticity and diversity. It\u2019s an endless journey around the world that blends music and cultures in an explosive mixture, involving the listener from the very first moment.
\nIn one year, he performed more than 200 concerts all over the world, with a spirit of self-production both in shows and in record productions, far from the big and discounted commercial business.
\nHis activity also includes collaborations with numerous music magazines, radios, television programs and film productions.
\nBob Brozman is one of those rare artists whose musical energy combined with the depth of knowledge of the instrument manages to involve spectators from all over the world in a mixture of amazement, comedy and participation in enthralling rhythms. After hearing one of his live performances, you can be sure you will never forget him.<\/p>\n\n

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\u201cAmerican tradition was my first great passion: a great school of art and culture. But the world travels too quickly to be sentimental about the past. Then, a few years ago, I started traveling the world and discovered equally seductive artistic and cultural realities, which I am living now, in the present.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c \u2026sometimes, given my physical appearance not exactly like an American, I get asked where I come from. I like to answer<\/em> \u201cfrom a nation of my own, where a utopian democracy reigns; where everyone plays and where there is respect for every culture and tradition\u201d\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe highest forms of music are those that arise from a sort of scream of the human soul. They are everywhere, even in western culture \u2013 just look at the trumpet of Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, the guitar of Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix. In this way music becomes a universal language. Indeed, musical communication starts from the muscles of arms and fingers. It is even faster than singing and speaking: it is a direct communication between brain and muscles …\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026travels around the world and the encounter with disparate sound universes, were all human and cultural experiences before they were artistic ones … Traveling the world made me fall in love again with the mankind. Today I consider myself an anthropologist, a scientist of music and string instruments\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

WWW.BOBBROZMAN.COM<\/h4>\n
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MAIN EVENTS<\/h3>\n

Vancouver Folk Festival
\nBelgium Rhythm\u2019n\u2019Blues Festival
\nMontreal Int. Jazz Festival
\nLincon Center Blues Festival N.Y.
\nBarcelona Blues Festival
\nFuji Television Network, Japan
\nFrench-German BI-National TV
\nPortland World Music Festival
\nDorpfeesten, Holland
\nHot Jazz Festival PT Townsend, WA
\nUniversity of Texas, Austin
\nAtlant High Museum, GA
\nFolkstudio, Roma
\nChicago Blues Festival
\nPaleo Festival, Nyon, Switzerland
\nPhiladelphia Folk Festival
\nVictoria Jazz Festival
\nWinnipeg Folk Festival
\nWomad Festival, England
\nEdmonton Folk Festival
\nBBC Television, England
\nIntern. Guitar Festival, Martinique
\nAmerican Radio Company,
\nAcoustic Guitar International Meeting, Italia
\nLondon Music Show
\nGuitar Passion Festival, Nice, France
\nSan Diego Folk Festival
\nDobro Festival, Slovak Rep.
\n200 concerts in U.K. \u201991-\u20182000
\n200 concerts in France \u201992-\u201994
\nAfrican Tour 2002
\nAustralian Tour 2002-2003
\nNuova Guinea Tour 2003
\nAustralian Tour 2004
\nUK, Holland Tour 2004
\nCanadian, Australian. Italian Tour 2006
\nEuropean Tour 2009
\nSelected Shows in USA, Scandinavian, Germany Tour 2010
\nEuropean Tour 2011
\nItaly, Romania, Scandinavia, France, Selected Shows in USA 2012<\/p>\n

PRESS REVIEW<\/h3>\n

\u201cUndoubtedly a singular musician, a guitarist of unmistakable virtuosity … a six-string teacher full of energy on and off stage …<\/em>\u201d<\/em>
\n– LE MONDE, PARIS<\/p>\n

\u201cHe exceeds the limits of the imagination!\u201d<\/em>
\n– WINNIPEG FOLK FESTIVAL PROGRAM<\/p>\n

\u201cA true artist, Brozman symbolizes genius and humanity … \u201d<\/em>
\n– VANGUARDIA; BARCELONA<\/p>\n

\u201cHe carved his name in fire letters on Mount Rushmore of American slide guitarists!\u201d<\/em>
\n– ROCK AND FOLK MAGAZINE, PARIS<\/p>\n

\u201cA complete performer who captures the audience from start to finish\u2026. hard to imagine a better show\u201d.<\/em>
\n– AUSTIN AMERICAN_STATESMAN, TEXAS<\/p>\n

\u201cAn authentic encyclopedia of primitive blues in the world, presented with virtuosity and incomparable humor\u2026\u201d<\/em>
\n– EL PAIS; MADRID<\/p>\n

\u201cIf music existed in other universes, Bob would be Earth’s representative for interplanetary collaboration\u201d
\n<\/em>– FARSIDE MUSIC, UK\/JAPAN<\/p>\n

DISCOGRAPHY<\/h3>\n

1974 YOUR PALE
\n1978 CHEAP SUIT SERENADERS N.3
\n1981 BLUE HULA STOMP
\n1983 SNAPPING THE STRINGS
\n1985 HELLO, CENTRAL\u2026.GIVE ME DR.JAZZ
\n1988 DEVIL\u2019S SLIDE
\n1989 TAU MOE FAMILY W\/BOB
\n1992 TRUCKLOAD OF BLUES
\n1992 EVERYBODY SLIDES
\n1993 SLIDE CRAZY
\n1994 SLIDE A GO GO
\n1995 DUO WITH MARTIN SIMPSON
\n1997 THE RUNNING MAN
\n1997 KIKA KILA MEETS KI HO\u2019ALU WITH LEDWARD KAAPANA (HAWAII)
\n1999 FOUR HANDS SWEET AND HOT WITH CYRIL PAHINUI (HAWAII)
\n2000 IN THE SADDLE WITH LEDWARD KAAPANA (HAWAII)
\n2000 GET TOGETHER WITH WOODY MANN
\n2000 JIN JIN WITH TAKASHI HIRAYASU (OKINAWA)
\n2000 OCEAN BLUES WITH DJELI MOUSSA DIAWARA (GUINEA)
\n2000 TONE POEMS III WITH DAVID GRISMAN AND MIKE AULDRIDGE
\n2001 NANKURU NAISA WITH TAKASHI HIRAYASU (OKINAWA)
\n2001 LIVE NOW
\n2002 ROLLING THROUGH THIS WORLD WITH JEFF LANG (AUSTRALIA)
\n2002 DIGDIG WITH RENE LACAILLE (LA REUNION ISLAND)
\n2003 METRIC TIME
\n2003 MAHIMA WITH DEBASHISH BHATTACHARYA (INDIA)
\n2004 BLUES REFLEX
\n2005 SONGS OF THE VOLCANO PAPUA-NEW GUINEA STRINGBANDS WITH BOB BROZMAN CD\/DVD
\n2007 LUMIERE
\n2007 POST INDUSTRIAL BLUES
\n2009 KANI WAI WITH GEORGE KAHUMOKU (HAWAII)
\n2010 SIX DAYS IN DOWN WITH JOHN MCSHERRY, DONAL O\u2019CONNOR (IRELAND)
\n2012 FIRE IN THE MIND<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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