For those unaware, Dr. Kristen Bromley is a gifted and sought-after musician, who works as a performer, composer, arranger, recording artist, author, educator, and scholar.

As a recording artist, Kristen has released seven albums to date that feature her as a jazz and/or solo guitarist.

Kristen has eclectic tastes, and though she has mainly recorded in the jazz style or as a solo guitarist she has also performed and taught in many styles and has plans to write and record in additional styles as well. As a jazz musician, Kristen and her playing have been described by critics as entertaining, inspiring, soulful, melodic, precise, virtuosic, cohesive, spiritual, joyful, artistic, and a true tour de force.

Her jazz albums have also been well represented by radio stations and the charts. For instance, her Muagiscian album was placed at #33 on Roots Music Report’s list of top jazz albums in 2024 and her Bluish Tide album was placed at #22 on that same list for 2022, with both of those albums charting for numerous weeks on Root’s Music Report and other charts, and reaching as high as #5 during the weeks where they were charting.

Kristen R. Bromley Quartet’s brand new album is entitled Wes 101 and features her as a jazz guitarist in a quartet setting along with Melanie Shore on organ, David Ian Baker on bass, and Matt Coleman on drums. The album was recorded, in part, as a tribute to the legendary Wes Montgomery, who tremendously influenced jazz guitar.

1. Bring It On [6:37]
2. Swing It for the Maestro [7:33]
3. Wes 101 [8:33]
4. Cherished Moments [8:40]
5. House of Fire [10:22]
6. Wahoo! [8:40]
7. Indy Blues [8:31]

This brilliantly emotive, and wholly impassioned new recording opens on the rhythmic finger snapper Bring It On and the simply sumptuous Swing It for the Maestro and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the gentle dance floor swirls and twirls of Wes 101, the low slung balladry of Cherished Moments, the upbeat and joyful House of Fire, the set rounding out on the furtively strident Wahoo!, closing on the emboldened mid-tempo jam Indy Blues.

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