About
Jack Broza is a musical artist born and based in New York City, performing and recording sounds for a motley mix of settings.
As a songwriter, he releases music under his own name and as a co-leader of FORAGER, an alternative R&B band. With conversational lyrics, and layered, complex production, his music leaps effortlessly between intimate moments and rich explosions of sound.
Jack has produced and/or mixed albums for artists across a wide genre spectrum. He has found a speciality working with songwriters that have an experimental kick (Sarah Rossy, Nathan Reising, Chase Elodia) and instrumental composers looking to translate their explosive live sound to a studio record (Altus, Olin Clark).
A multi-instrumentalist, Jack has toured with FORAGER (guitar, keys), Moon Walker (bass, keys), Elly Kace (guitar), and Michael Veal’s Aqua Ife (guitar) and more.
Trained as a jazz and classical guitarist, Jack studied composition at Yale University and Afro-Cuban music while living in Havana.
Jack's past musical endeavors range widely in form. They include a two-hour dance-theater piece titled Opera x Metamorphoses, multiple concert installations commissioned by the Yale University Art Gallery, and the scores to multiple short film scores. For these projects and others Jack has been recognized with a number of accolades, including the Abraham Beekman Cox Prize in composition, a Best Shorts Competition award for film scoring, the Lewis P. Curtis Fellowship, the Tristan Perlroth Prize, and the Charles P. Howland Fellowship.
A third generation musician, Jack's earliest influences came from his father, Jamie Lawrence, and grandfather, Elliot Lawrence. He has studied Jazz with Wayne Escoffery, composition with Konrad Kaczmarek and Kathryn Alexander, and improvisation from Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey during the Banff International Workshop in Jazz & Creative Music.
PRESS
“It flows masterfully and makes up an intriguing and accessible structure…. Of particular note is Broza’s uniquely jazzy approach to acoustic guitar….his composition and songwriting are sights to behold.” -- Under The Radar Magazine, on Some Slant Rhyme I Wrote
"Buttery and complex. . . where have you been all my life?!?" NPR’s Bobby Carter on FORAGER’s Can Both Be True?
“The rhythm is complex, layered and funky all in one. A journey into all things experimental – I couldn’t even tell you who I would compare Broza to musically” - Divide and Conquer on Not That Deep
“[a] Kaleidoscopic, funk-fueled fever dream ready to energize and inspire all who listen.” Atwood Magazine on FORAGER’s Pipedream Firewood.
“Cheerful and breezy, a sauntering melody wanders through each layer until you find your steps keeping pace with it...More than anything, Walk a Day sounds like a good walk feels.” -- The Wild Honey Pie
