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Brian Bromberg
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Brian
Bromberg
Biography |
Brian was born December 5th, 1960 in Tucson Arizona. He
grew up in a family of musicians and artists. His father and brother played the
drums. With all that music around the house, and drums all over the place, it
was natural for Brian to start playing the drums as well. Brian was two and a
half years old, beating up the furniture and banging on anything that
didn’t move. After some years of playing and practicing, Brian began his
professional career as a drummer at the age of thirteen.
In elementary
and Jr.high School, Brian also played the cello. That was one instrument that
Brian did not feel very comfortable playing. One day in orchestra class at jr.
high, the orchestra director came over to Brian and said, hey Brian, you see
that big bass over there in the corner? You know that nobody is playing it.
Don’t you want to play that big cool bass over there? You see, the
orchestra director had a plan. He thought that having one bad bass player was
better then not having one at all. That was his way of getting Brian to stop
trying to saw his cello in half!
That day was a blessing in disguise.
Brian didn’t realize that he had the gift for melody as well as rhythm.
With his drumming background, and all this new melody available to him from the
bass, Brian knew that this was going to be his path.
From ages fourteen
to eighteen, Brian locked himself up in a room and practiced day and night.
Testing out of high school early and devoting all his time to music, for the
next few years Brian played every type of gig imaginable. Quite often Brian
would play five to seven nights a week with several different
bands
Brian’s first big break came in 1979 when Marc Johnson, the
wonderful bassist with the great jazz pianist Bill Evans, heard Brian play.
Several months later while on tour, Marc ran into legendary jazz saxophonist
Stan Getz. Stan was looking for a new bass player and asked Marc if he knew any
new young players. Marc told Stan about Brian. Brian auditioned for Stan and
joined the Stan Getz quintet in December of 1979. Brian had just turned 19 and
spent nearly a year touring the world with Stan and his band.
Since
then, Brian has toured, performed and or recorded with some of the greatest
artists of our time. |
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