Jazz Articles about The Heavyweights Brass Band

The Heavyweights Brass Band: This City

by Dan Bilawsky
March 24, 2018

Brass band music and culture will forever be linked to NOLA. It's written in that storied locale's history and it rests in its musical groundwater and roots. But This City reminds us that those roots now anchor branches that hang above the past and extend north across the continent. While hardly bound by tradition, The Heavyweights Brass Band most certainly owes a debt to Crescent City combos of a similar instrumental ilk. And with its third album, ...