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Rebirth Brass Band Perform With Sol Roots And Gordon Sterling At The Hamilton Live
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9th Floor Music
Closing out 2023 with a bang, New Orleans musical heavyweights Rebirth Brass Band appear for a two night run at The Hamilton Live in Washington D.C, also featuring the fierce funk/soul guitarist Sol Roots on December 30th, and the talented group Gordon Sterling & The People on December 31th. Rebirth Brass Band Grammy-winning Rebirth Brass Band is a globally renowned paragon of the New Orleans' brass band tradition. They are celebrated for melding their tradition with second-line, funk, jazz, soul, ...
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Big Band Era Salute With The O-Tones at the Brass Rail Meetinghouse (Southwick, MA) on September 16
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Mary Witt/The O-Tones
Big Band era salute with The O-Tones! Honoring musicians of the Big Band era, The O-Tones present a show with songs by Tony Bennett, The Andrews Sisters, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Fred Astaire and others. Once the stage show is over, there will be some time and room for dancing! The Brass Rail in Southwick, MA has a long history of music on the lake. Join us in this beautiful setting for live music and dancing and delicious ...
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Drums 'n' Brass: 10 Video Clips
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
More swinging brass you say? Hey, why not. With the holidays upon us, what better way to usher in the season than with killer drummers driving powerful big bands. Here are 10 video clips of great big band drummers plus one of the finest drummers of the post-war years who also was a crackerjack arranger. Here's Big Sid Catlett, the father of modern jazz drumming, in the late 1930s, with Charlie Shavers (tp), Buster Bailey (cl), Russell Procope (as), Billy ...
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Festival Of New Trumpet Music 2021 announces Brass Without Borders, September 8-15, 2021
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Lukas Frei
A GLOBAL CELEBRATION OF THE EXTRAORDINARY DIVERSITY IN CURRENT MUSIC FOR THE TRUMPET For almost 20 years, the Festival Of New Trumpet Music has embraced innovation and the unheard. Led by Dave Douglas, this small festival defies stylistic categories and presents exciting music centered around the trumpet each year, in previous years at clubs and stages around New York City. The pandemic-related all-digital version of 2020 was the occasion to be able to present trumpeters from all over the world ...
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10 tracks: Niehaus and Brass
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
With the recent passing of alto saxophonist and arranger-composer Lennie Niehaus, I spent yesterday listening to his Stan Kenton and sideman sessions and arrangements. During this period, Lennie used a wonderful device on up-tempo arrangements, opening with a heavy, dark riff and then cutting the cord and letting the song float into bright swing. On ballads, he used an effective inhale-exhale style that slowed the heart and captured the ear. Here are 10 brassy Lennie Niehaus arrangements: Here's one of ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on No BS! Brass Band
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring the No BS! Brass Band, who are returning to St. Louis to perform on Wednesday, August 1 at the Old Rock House. Coming out of Richmond, Virginia, the NBBB offers their own take on the classic New Orleans brass band tradition, adapting popular contemporary tunes from a variety of genres for the format, and performing their own originals as well. They've released five albums to date, the most recent being ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who will be back in St. Louis to perform next Thursday, July 12 at the Old Rock House. Founded in 1977 in New Orleans, the DDBB helped reinvigorate the city's brass band tradition by incorporating modern jazz, funk, and other genres, inspiring a new generation of players, bands and fans in the process. The most recent of DDBB's 14 albums is Twenty Dozen, released back ...
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Jazz this week: Marilyn Maye, Jeanne Trevor & Dave Black, Funky Butt Brass Band, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis includes return gigs for an acclaimed veteran of cabaret singing and a favorite local act at the city's premier jazz club; a rare performance by one of St. Louis' own jazz divas; and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, March 7 Marilyn Maye, who's sometimes called “the grand dame of cabaret," returns for the first of two nights at Jazz at the Bistro. Not unlike Tony Bennett, ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Bonerama puts low brass on top
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, StLJN's video spotlight shines on Bonerama, who will be back in St. Louis to perform on Saturday, December 16 at The Bootleg at Atomic Cowboy. The New Orleans-based band puts the low brass on top, thanks to a three-trombone front line plus a sousaphone standing in for electric bass. Formed in 1998 by trombonists Mark Mullins and Craig Klein, both veterans of Harry Connick Jr.'s big band, they've forged a distinctive sound that incorporates their hometown musical traditions ...
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Jazz this week: Rebirth Brass Band, Shotgun Jazz Band with Charlie Halloran, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
With the start of the fall presenting season still a couple of weeks away, the schedule of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis is a bit light this weekend, but it does feature two bands bringing a bit of New Orleans to our town, plus some other noteworthy shows. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, August 30 Pianist Carolbeth True and Two Times True with saxophonist Larry Johnson will perform at Evangeline's, and this week's “Grand Center Jazz ...
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