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  • American guitarist and ethno-musicologist.Born March 8, 1954 in New York.Died April 23, 2013 in Santa Cruz, Ca.
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  • Bob Brozman (March 8, 1954 – April 23, 2013) was an American guitarist and ethnomusicologist.Brozman was born to a Jewish family living on Long Island, New York. He began playing the guitar when he was 6.He performed in a number of styles such as gypsy jazz, calypso, blues, ragtime, Hawaiian music, and Caribbean music. Brozman also collaborated with musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds such as India, Africa, Japan, Papua New Guinea and Réunion. He has been called %22an instrumental wizard%22 and %22a walking archive of 20th Century American music%22. Brozman maintained a steady schedule throughout the year, touring constantly throughout North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa. He recorded numerous albums and has won the Guitar Player Readers' Poll three times in the best blues, best world and best slide guitarist categories. In 1999, Brozman and Woody Mann founded International Guitar Seminars, which hosts over 120 students annually at sites in California, New York, and Canada. From 2000 to 2005 his collaborations landed in the European Top 10 for World Music five times.He was formerly an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.Brozman was well known for his use of National resonator instruments from the 1920s and 1930s, as well as National Resophonic resonator instruments. He also used Weissenborn style hollow neck acoustic steel guitars. Among his National instruments were a baritone version of the tricone guitar, which was designed in conjunction with him in the mid to late 1990s. This instrument is now part of National's range of products.Brozman committed suicide on April 23, 2013.
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