Jazz Articles about The Timucua Brass Band

The Timucua Brass Band: Mardi Gras At Timucua

by Michael P. Gladstone
July 30, 2005

As much as I'm not usually attracted to New Orleans brass bands, I was quite diverted by this new entry. Although the Timucua Brass Band featuring Benoit Glaser's original brass band music is evidently an Orlando, Florida organization, it might as well be a local N'awlins ensemble.

Although the album starts out with a traditional original, “Jelly's Rhythm," which includes a gutbucket trombone solo, reasonably few of the other tracks display the same traditional feel. The musicians, and ...