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Howard Brofsky (born May 2, 1927 in Brooklyn, † October 17, 2013 ibid [1] ) was an American jazz musician (cornet, trumpet, mellophone ), author and university teacher.
Howard Brofsky studied trumpet with Nat Prager, short with Frankie Newton and composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. from New York University on 18th century Italian music. Brofsky taught at Queens College; He also taught at the University of Chicago, the University of British Columbia , Boston University and the University of Oslo. With a Fulbright scholarship he studied and taught in 1953 in France and 1972 in Italy. In 1955, the first recordings were made in Paris with George Johnson and his Orchestra. He co-authored the textbook The Art of Listening: Developing Musical Perception and wrote articles on Italian music and jazz, and more. a. for the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the American National Biography. At Queens College, Brofksy set up a jazz master's program, bringing jazz musicians like Jimmy Heath, Donald Byrd and Roland Hanna to the institute. Brofsky also participated in the establishment of the Louis Armstrong House and Archives. [1]

As a musician Brofsky reappeared in 1974 with his own formations and in the band projects of his friend, the painter Larry Rivers, as the East Thirteenth Street Band (recordings in 1985) and the Climax Band. Under his own name, in 2000, he released the album 73 Down. Bebop before, the shots u. a. with Michael Formanek, Larry Willis , Eliot Zigmund and Attila Zoller. He also appeared with Dexter Gordon, Jimmy Heath and David Amram. For his birthday, he played every year at the Vermont Jazz Center, where he u. a. with Antonio Hart , Charles McPherson , Jimmy Heath, Jeb Patton , David Berkman and David Wong. In 1992, he moved with his family to Vermont, where he served as chairman of the Vermont Jazz Center , before returning to Brooklyn twenty years later. There he still performed regularly at the Club DUMBO on Jay Street. In the field of jazz he was involved between 1985 and 2000 in six recording sessions. [2] [3]

Publications (selection) Howard Brofsky, Jeanne Bamberger: The Art of Listening: Developing Musical Perception. Harper and Row, 1969 Web links Portrait at Vermont Jazz Center Portrait at Jazz.com Howard Brofsky at Allmusic Howard Brofsky at Discogs Single proofs ↑ a b c Obituary at Legacy.com ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 8, 2013) Standard data (person): GND : 112620451X | LCCN : n87941579 | VIAF : 72927463 | Wikipedia People Search

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