Bobby Broom will Launch Tribute Thelonius Monk

In next the 16 to June, the stamp “Origin”, hosted in Seattle, will launch the album “Bobby Broom Plays will be Monk”, a tribute for the star guides, pianista and composer Thelonius Monk carried through for the guitarist Bobby Broom (in the photo) with its trio formed for the stock exchange operator Dennis Carroll and the baterista Kobie Watkins. Broom more is known as guitarist of long time of the band of Sonny Rollins, but it has, also, recorded as leader for stamps as Arista, Criss Cross, Delmark, Premonition and, more recently, Origin. In it he was recorded, in 2007, “Song and Dance”, where Broom interpreted songs of the Beatles, Leon Russell, amongst others. In 2008, a guided record more in the jazzística direction, “The Way I Play”. All its records in the Origin had been carried through with its regular trio, that if presents in a restaurant of Illinois has about 12 years. Broom, with its band of Chicago, “Deep Blue Organ Trio”, has recorded a series of albums for the Delmark.

“Bobby Broom Plays will be Monk” is not the first album where a guitar trio, low e battery interprets the deeply pianística and harmonic prickly music of Monk. In the passed year, Peter Bernstein recorded Monk with Doug Weiss and Bill Stewart in recently reactivated Xanadu stamp.
This record of Broom presents a layer with an artistic work that relembra of the LP “Monk's launched Music” in 1957. Chosen musics are: “Work,” “Evidence,” “Reflections,” “Bemsha Swing,” “Ask Me Now,” “Ruby, My Dear,” “Rhythm-a-ning,” “In Walked Bud,” “Lulu's Back in Town,” and “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.”
Source: JazzTimes