Sold Date:
February 13, 2014
Start Date:
February 6, 2014
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Bob Brozman. Hello Central...Give Me Dr. Jazz. Rounder Records(3086).
Multi-instrumentalist, historian, and educator Bob Brozman was born in New York on March 8, 1954. His uncle, Barney Josephson, was a prominent club owner who ran Cafe Society in Greenwich Village, one of the first places in New York, or anywhere, where black and white musicians played on-stage together.
studied music and ethno-musicology at Washington University in St. Louis. became not only a master of classic blues from the '20s and '30s, but also a competent performer of early jazz and ragtime. In the mid-'70s while still in college, he would make trips down South to find, interview, and play with the older blues artists from the 1920s and '30s whom he admired.