New Live Album From The Bobby Broom Organi-Sation

Bobby Broom’s new album features eight jazz & pop standards as played live by his Organi-Sation, with organist Ben Paterson & drummer Kobie Watkins.

Guitarist Bobby Broom makes a welcome return to one of his longtime favorite formats—the jazz organ trio—with Jamalot, a live album and the second by his Organi-Sation, to be released May 24 on Steele Records. While the trio (which also features organist Ben Paterson and drummer Kobie Watkins) debuted on record with 2018’s Soul Fingers, they have been a working band for much longer; the new release features performances going back 10 years.

Broom’s infatuation with the Hammond organ goes back to his youth. It first bore professional fruit in his twenties, when he joined the band of the legendary Charles Earland. A decade later, in the 1990s, he founded the Deep Blue Organ Trio, which continued working into the 2010s. “I thought after the Deep Blue Organ Trio that I would never feel anything quite like that in terms of chemistry,” Broom says. “And boy was I wrong. It was really incredible to me how much this new group jelled, and the level of music that we were able to play.”

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