Genre: Jazz
Artist: Brian Bromberg
Album: It Is What It Is
Street Date: August 25, 2009
Label: Mack Avenue Records
Acclaimed bassist Brian Bromberg has garnered a hard-earned reputation as one of the most versatile and respected players in jazz, producing an enviable music catalog of straight ahead and contemporary jazz on both upright and electric basses. Following on the heels of the successful Grammy nominated Downright Upright, is his fourth Artistry Music release – It Is What It Is.
Bromberg gets loose and funky throughout the 13 tracks on It Is What It Is, including his unique spin on the B52’s dance classic, “Love Shack.” The album is full of twists and turns, playfully rich with displays of texture only Bromberg can bestow on jazz. It is funky yet refined, lined with horns, waltzes, and ballads in addition to, of course, the main attraction: bass. Bromberg showcases the instrument and shows that the bass can handle the melodic spotlight.
Listeners can tell that Bromberg knows his art: each of Bromberg’s releases have had increasingly higher sales.
