Brian Bromberg

Brian was born December 5th, 1960, in Tucson Arizona. He grew up in a family of musicians and artists. His father and brother played the drums. With all that music around the house, and drums all over the place, it was natural for Brian to start playing the drums as well. Brian was two and a half years old, beating up the furniture and banging on anything that didn’t move. After some years of playing and practicing, Brian began his professional career as a drummer at the age of thirteen.

In elementary and Jr.high School, Brian also played the cello. That was one instrument that Brian did not feel very comfortable playing. One day in orchestra class at jr. high, the orchestra director came over to Brian and said, hey Brian, you see that big bass over there in the corner? You know that nobody is playing it. Don’t you want to play that big cool bass over there? You see, the orchestra director had a plan. He thought that having one bad bass player was better then not having one at all. That was his way of getting Brian to stop trying to saw his cello in half!

Brian’s first big break came in 1979 when Marc Johnson, the wonderful bassist with the great jazz pianist Bill Evans, heard Brian play. Several months later while on tour, Marc ran into legendary jazz saxophonist Stan Getz. Stan was looking for a new bass player and asked Marc if he knew any new young players. Marc told Stan about Brian. Brian auditioned for Stan and joined the Stan Getz quintet in December of 1979. Brian had just turned 19 and spent nearly a year touring the world with Stan and his band.

Since then, as a session bassist Brian has performed on many major Hollywood movie soundtracks and television shows, and has toured, performed and or recorded with some of the greatest artists of our time including:

Andrea Bocelli
Bob James
Bob Mintzer
David Benoit
David Foster
Dean Martin
Elvin Jones
Elvis Costello
George Benson
George Duke
Kenny G
Michael Bubble
Michael Crawford
Ne-Yo
Paula Cole
Richie Cole
Stanley Jordan
Stanley Turrentine
Steve Lukather
Steven Bishop
Steven Tyler
Sting
Tony Williams

As a solo artist and independent record producer, Brian has produced at more than a 12 top #10 hits, many top #5 hits, and three #1 hit songs as well as selling over a quarter million albums as a jazz bassist!

As Brian himself says, “There are no rules, just dreams.”