Jazz Articles about Youngblood Brass Band

Live From Birmingham: The Tubes, Youngblood Brass Band, Bill Bailey & Deerhoof

by Martin Longley
August 27, 2015

The Tubes The Robin R&B Club August 13, 2015 The Tubes are touring to celebrate four decades of existence. Always something of a cultish alternative, and quite possibly bringing the punters out in droves due to a certain nostalgic curiosity, this Bilston show was the last night of their UK leg, and the atmosphere was suitably charged. Hailing from San Francisco, this bunch of japers have always been concerned with the satiric poke, ...

Youngblood Brass Band: center:level:roar

by AAJ Staff
April 22, 2003

In some sense, we're all children to the end... the day we quit playing is the day we quit living.

The Youngblood Brass Band embodies that principle in everything they do, however serious the music may become. Billing themselves as “6 horns, 2 drummers, a sousaphonist, and an MC," the group was founded in 1995 when these young men were high school students in Wisconsin. It's not your average brass band, for sure. With their anything-goes approach, they ...