Stuart Broomer

{{Short description|Canadian editor, music critic, pianist, writer, jazz historian and composer}}

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Stuart Broomer is a Canadian editor, music critic, pianist, writer, jazz historian, and composer. He is a former editor with CODA magazine and currently works as an editor at Coach House Books.{{Cite web|url=https://chbooks.com/Contributors/B/Broomer-Stuart|title=Stuart Broomer | Coach House Books|website=chbooks.com}} As a music critic he has written articles for Amazon.com, The Globe and Mail,{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music-thats-more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts/article1340697/|title=Music that's more than the sum of its parts|first=Stuart|last=Broomer|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=8 November 2000|via=www.theglobeandmail.com}} Toronto Life, Down Beat,{{cite magazine |date=August 2021 |title=69th Annual Critics Poll: The Critics |magazine=DownBeat |pages=47 |url=https://www.downbeat.com/digitaledition/2021/DB21_08/DB21_08.pdf}} Musicworks,{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicworks.ca/reviews/stuart-broomer|title=Stuart Broomer | Musicworks magazine|website=www.musicworks.ca}} Cadence Magazine, ParisTransatlantlic and Signal to Noise. He has also authored more than 60 liner essays for musicians internationally. His book Time and Anthony Braxton ({{isbn| 978-1551281445}}) was published by The Mercury Press in 2009. He is a member of the music faculty at George Brown College.

Broomer is a graduate of The Royal Conservatory of Music where he studied music composition and piano with Samuel Dolin. As a pianist, he is best known for playing in the jazz trio "Broomer, Mars & Smith" in the 1970s and later the duo "Stuart Broomer & John Mars" during the 1980s, both of which included compositions by Broomer in their repertoire. The duo released a 1983 album, Annihilated Surprise, on Ugly Dog Records.{{Cite web|url=http://www.canadianjazzarchive.dk/en/musicians/stuart-broomer.html|title=Stuart Broomer Musician Biography | Canadian Jazz Archive Online|first=Canadian Jazz|last=Archive|date=5 March 2016|website=www.canadianjazzarchive.dk}}

He is the father of video essayist Stephen Broomer.[https://twitter.com/StephenBroomer/status/1802425309494423590 "Mark Miller writing on my father, Stuart Broomer, for the May 18, 1978 issue of Downbeat." Stephen Broomer on Twitter]