Bobby Broom, associate professor of jazz guitar and jazz studies in the NIU School of Music, whose most recent album, More Amor spent several weeks atop Jazz Week’s North American Jazz Radio chart, has been selected to perform in this spring’s 15th Annual International Jazz Day All-Star Global Concert in Chicago, April 30.
Iconic Grammy Award winning jazz musician, composer and bandleader Herbie Hancock made the announcement Wednesday, January 21. Hancock is UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Global Jazz Ambassador.
Also selected to perform in the concert is award-winning jazz trumpeter Marquis Hill, a 2009 graduate of the NIU School of Music.
International Jazz Day was founded by Hancock and over the years has taken place in major cities worldwide, including New Orleans, Istanbul, Osaka, Paris, Washington D.C., Havana, St. Petersburg, Sydney, Melbourne, Tangier, and Abu Dhabi.
Chicago will host this year’s event which will take place in and throughout the city, with the Global Concert at the Lyric Opera House. Among the fellow artists Broom will join for the main event are: Herbie Hancock, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Marcus Miller, Renée Fleming, Jacob Collier, Dianne Reeves, Terence Blanchard, and Kurt Elling.
Bobby is proud to note that the roster includes Hill, Joel Ross, and Jahari Stampley, all former Ravinia Jazz Mentor Program scholar alums, a program that Broom has been proud to have contributed to for over twenty-five years.
