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A guitarist’s guitarist Bob Brozman has died at the age of 59 the Santa Cruz Sentinel has reported indicating that he was found dead at home on Tuesday. Brozman was a very eclectic guitarist and genres were no barrier to his approach, as happy in jazz, the blues and world music styles. Best known as a slide guitarist he used a National resonator instrument and hollow neck acoustic steel guitars and played often in Britain and Ireland, recording in recent years Six Days In Down in the north of Ireland with traditional Irish musician uilleann piper John McSherry and fiddler Dónal O’Connor, joined by singer Stephanie Makem. Brozman travelled the globe and collaborated as he put it in the notes to the album after a lifetime “collaborating with musicians from tropical islands, I thought a cold-climate island project would be interesting and challenging.”  The music on this album is in some ways a snapshot of his overall approach making the connection here between disparate musics, in this case Irish folk music, Malian sounds and Arabic modes, with Brozman playing a tricone guitar, and Hawaiian guitar, just some of the instruments he liked to use. Jazz guitarist Martin Taylor, among a host of musicians and fans marking the passing of Brozman on social networking sites commented: “Very sad to hear the news about Bob Brozman. We worked together many times in the US and Europe.”
Bob Brozman above pictured in 2010
photo: Moving on Music