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The Dirty Dozen Brass Band: Buck Jump

Read "Buck Jump" reviewed by John Sharpe


The Dirty Dozen Brass Band may have been raised in New Orleans, but with Buck Jump they've definitely moved on to Funkytown. While producer John Medeski (of Medeski, Martin & Wood fame) retains some of their original brass band sound, he has also added heavy slabs of his own Hammond B-3, plus assorted percussion and bass. Buck Jump is a raucous, funky, fun-filled mix of traditional New Orleans blues, R&B and modern jazz. This CD has the loose, up-front feel ...

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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on the Dirty Dozen Brass Band

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on the Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Source: 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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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Gettin' Dirty with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Gettin' Dirty with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

This week, we shine our video spotlight on New Orleans' Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who will be back in St. Louis to perform next Saturday, February 26 on a double bill with singer/pianist Jon Cleary at the Sheldon Concert Hall. The DDBB have played here numerous times in recent years, with their last visit coming in November 2009 at the Broadway Oyster Bar. The four clips featured today are all of fairly recent ...

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Party Time with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Party Time with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

This week, we turn our spotlight on New Orleans' Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who will return to St. Louis this Thursday, November 19 to perform at the Broadway Oyster Bar. The DDBB have been frequent visitors to St. Louis since the 1980s, with this appearance coming as part of what's being billed as the group's 25th anniversary tour. Today's clips provide four examples of the band's signature sound, an updated ...

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Seattle Times: New Orleans Sound Takes a Trip to Seattle, Courtesy of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Seattle Times: New Orleans Sound Takes a Trip to Seattle, Courtesy of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene

from The Seattle Times: Everyone should experience Mardi Gras at least once, but if a trip to New Orleans isn’t in the cards, rest assured that the Dirty Dozen Brass Band is bringing a potent jolt of Crescent City soul to Seattle. A New Orleans institution for more than 30 years, the Dirty Dozen revolutionized the brass-band tradition in the late 1970s by adding a bracing shot of bebop into an already savory musical gumbo. Born out of the Fairview ...

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The Dirty Dozen Brass Band at Irving Plaza

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band at Irving Plaza

Source: All About Jazz


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Multi-Grammy Award Winning Blind Boys of Alabama Perform Gospel Inspired Holiday Program with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band at the Kimmel Center on December 9

Multi-Grammy Award Winning Blind Boys of Alabama Perform Gospel Inspired Holiday Program with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band at the Kimmel Center on December 9

Source: Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Multi Grammy® Award winning Blind Boys of Alabama perform the soul-stirring holiday gospel concert “Go Tell It On the Mountain," sharing the stage with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band at the Kimmel Center on Sunday, December 9, 2007 at 8pm. A staple in the music industry for performing traditional gospel since the 1940's and 1950's, the Blind Boys of Alabama reinvented itself in 2001 with the release of three consecutive Grammy®-award winning albums that rewrote traditional Southern gospel to include ...

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The Dirty Dozen Brass Band @ Fairfield Theatre Company

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band @ Fairfield Theatre Company

Source: All About Jazz

If there is a group that knows how to get a party started; it's the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. This New Orleans brass band rocks the house with its trademark style: kinetic hybrid of traditional brass band marches, funk, R&B, bop, gospel and rock. Formed in 1977, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band has set out to preserve two antiquated New Orleans' traditions, Social and Culture Clubs that afforded life insurance to black southerners and Brass bands that accompanied Jazz funerals. ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Buck Jump

Mammoth Records
1999

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