Turning 75 this year, valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer brought his New Art Orchestra to town last month at the IAJE and a “Battle of the Bands” at the Village Vanguard. He endures as a master of the ...

Get Well Soon is the third recording by the New Art Orchestra, an eighteen-piece ensemble formed nearly two decades ago in Lubeck, Germany, as a jazz component of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival ...

A half-century or so ago, Bob Brookmeyer was one of the pillars of the West Coast cool school, making his biggest mark playing with and arranging for Gerry Mulligan's groups. Nowadays, the 74-year-old ...

At the 2007 North Sea Jazz Festival, four finalists faced off in the European Broadcasting Union competition for best young band. The winner — beating groups from Germany, Canada, and France — was the ...

Bob Brookmeyer joined Gerry Mulligan’s quartet in 1954–replacing Chet Baker, the jazz world’s equivalent of a matinee idol, in one of its best-known combos. He moved on to play in a high-profile band ...

Bob Brookmeyer began his career in the 1950s. From the beginning, Brookmeyer was credited with a highly distinctive personal style — first as an improviser, then as a composer and arranger for ...

Bob Brookmeyer, a master of the rarely played valve trombone who was also an influential jazz composer, bandleader and teacher, died Dec. 15 at a hospital in New London, N.H. He was 81. His wife, ...

How many Broadway shows has Bob Brookmeyer been in? Bob Brookmeyer has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows. How many West End shows has Bob Brookmeyer been in? Bob Brookmeyer has not appeared in the West ...