Adam Bronstein is a guitar player from Bualo, NY known for his clever songwriting and playful improvisation.
Focusing on guitar at the forefront of its sound, the trio’s music is instrumental with influences ranging from jazz
through hip hop, r&b & psychedelia.
Adam has released 2 studio albums in the past two years: Intention/Invention (2022), and most recently ABtrio
(Dec. 2023); as well as a live release “Live at Black Dots” (Feb 2024) & in 2023 took his trio on a 15-date North-
east tour across five states, playing clubs including BLU+ jazz (Akron, OH), Blue (Portland, ME), The Lilypad (Cam-
bridge, MA), Williamsburg Music Center (Brooklyn, NY); and played at the 2023 Northwest Jazz Festival.
Adam was nominated “BEST JAZZ GUITARIST” and ABtrio nominated “BEST JAZZ RELEASE” in the 2023
Jazz Bualo Readers Poll and Adam has shared bills with Samara Joy, Pasquale Grasso, Charlie Balentine Ghost
Note, Paris Monster, Lespecial & more.
Former Bualo News music critic Je Miers calls Adam “one of our scene’s finest jazz guitarists and composers”
and says “..the soloing is inventive and melodic in equal measure” calling the music “laid back, soulful and fueled
by astute interplay”
Sunday, August 11th
7pm
$10
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