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Howard Brofsky Quintet at Vermont Jazz Center
Courtesy of Robby Roiter | Posted on April 22, 2013
Where
Vermont Jazz Center
72 Cotton Mill Hl # 222
Brattleboro, VT
Map
802-254-9088
When
Sat, May 18, 2013
8 pm
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Musicians
About
Howard Brofsky's sound, on his preferred cornet, is sublime and always tasteful. Whether playing a ballad or tearing through bebop changes, he never forgets that the melody is what it's about. Brofsky knows a little bit about melody by virtue of having been around the jazz block and earning the moniker "Dr. Bebop." Brofsky picked up the horn at age 17, following Charlie Parker and listening to Roy Eldridge and digging the new bebop sound in the mid-1940s.
After several years in Paris, he left jazz and turned to classical music scholarship, earning his master's and doctoral degrees in 18th-century Italian classical music and taking a faculty post at Queens College...