Howard Brofsky and Friends

Howard Brofsky's sound, on his preferred cornet, is sublime and always tasteful. Whether playing a ballad or tearing through bebop changes, he never forgets that the melody is what it's about. Brofsky knows a little bit about melody by virtue of having been around the jazz block and earning the moniker "Dr. Bebop." Brofsky picked up the horn at age 17, following Charlie Parker and listening to Roy Eldridge and digging the new bebop sound in the mid-1940s.