Adam Bronstein & ABtrio, Alternative jazz with guitar at the forefront of it’s sound.
featuring Adam Bronstein (guitar) & Marco Cirigliano (drums)
Adam Bronstein is a guitar player from Buffalo, NY known for his clever songwriting and playful improvisation. Focusing on guitar at the forefront of its sound, his music is instrumental with influences ranging from bebop through fusion, soul-jazz & psychedelia. Adam has released 3 studio albums in the past two years: Intention/Invention (Nov 2022), ABtrio (Dec. 2023); & most recently Jazz ≠ Jazz (Aug 2024) as well as a live release “”Live at Black Dots”” (Feb 2024).”
Adam Bronstein is a guitar player from Buffalo, NY known for his clever songwriting and playful improvisation. Focusing on guitar at the forefront of its sound, his music is instrumental with influences ranging from bebop through fusion, soul-jazz & psychedelia.
Adam has released 3 studio albums in the past two years: Intention/Invention (Nov 2022), ABtrio (Dec. 2023); & most recently Jazz ≠ Jazz (Aug 2024) as well as a live release “Live at Black Dots” (Feb 2024).
Between touring with Louis Prima Jr & The Witnesses, as well as the soul jazz quintet Ellen Pieroni and The Encyclopedia of Soul Adam has taken his trio (aptly named ABtrio) on four separate independent tours across the Northeast and midwest United States, planning a fifth and sixth this spring and summer.
ABtrio has played – The Bop Stop (Cleveland, OH), Ginger Rabbit (Columbus, OH), UrbanBeat (Lansing, MI), BLU+ Jazz (Akron, OH), Blue (Portland, ME), The Lilypad (Cambridge, MA), Williamsburg Music Center (Brooklyn, NY); and played at the 2023 Northwest Jazz Festival, The 2024 Erie Blues and Jazz Festival and featured throughout the 2024 music series at AKG Museum.
Adam was nominated “BEST JAZZ GUITARIST” and ABtrio nominated “BEST JAZZ RELEASE” in the 2024 Jazz Buffalo Readers Poll and Adam has shared bills with Samara Joy, Pasquale Grasso, Charlie Balentine, Ghost Note, Paris Monster, Lespecial & more.
For fans of: Julian Lage, Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny, and John Scofield.
Video:
“Sindri” By Adam Bronstein, performed by ABtrio LIVE at GINGER RABBIT – Columbus, OH 8/13/24
“Equinox” written by John Coltrane, performed by ABtrio with Elliot Scozzaro (ts) LIVE at BLACK DOTS – Buffalo, NY
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Audio:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2iac100gufdHQ9T4Smph09?si=M_PbDnhoQ3G4hGa0xo2egw
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRRSXsTqpImsDIGOIb4cuWw
Audio:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2iac100gufdHQ9T4Smph09?si=M_PbDnhoQ3G4hGa0xo2egw
Bandcamp: https://adambronstein.bandcamp.com/album/abtrio-2
soundcloud >>> https://soundcloud.com/adam-bronstein-388210219/sets/abtrio/s-DSp5kPQqO3J?si=4118efb53f4b4d17bec77319f781d229&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Additional links: https://linktr.ee/adambronstein
ABOUT ‘ABtrio’ (2023) Jeff Miers, former music critic for The Buffalo News wrote:
“Guitarist/composer/bandleader Adam Bronstein (has) developed into one of our scene’s finest jazz guitarists and composers, and his ‘ABtrio’ album offers testimony to this fact”
“Laid-back, soulful, and fueled by astute interplay between Bronstein and Trio members James Benders (bass) and Gabe Wells (drums) … shades of Bill Frisell, Julian Lage and John Scofield here, and these are not comparisons I’d make lightly. It’s hip stuff, tracked live and beautifully recorded”
ABOUT ‘Intention/Invention’ (2022) Jeff Miers wrote in The Buffalo News :
“Adam Bronstein arrives with his first album as bandleader and composer, and it’s a simply stunning effort.”
“An organic, earthy recording of some subtle but striking compositions that move easily between supple swing and stately funk.”
“The soloing is inventive and melodic in equal measure, and the overall, dreamlike presence will be enticing to fans of Julian Lage’s most recent effort ‘View With A Room’ featuring Bill Frisell. This is truly a beautiful album.”