At D.B.A., along with tunes from their popular CD, Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing other original and traditional favorites. The band at D.B.A., native New Orleans players that also appear on ...

A town needs a brass band. Something with trumpets and cornets, French horns, euphoniums, trombones and tubas. Back in the day, it was common for each small town throughout the West to have its own ...

The sounds of Chicago will come to Battle Creek this weekend. That is, the horn-laden music of rock band Chicago will be heard at the Brass Band of Battle Creek's 7:30 p.m. Saturday concert at W.K.

Over the past 18 months, Alejandro de los Rios, Jonathan Bachman and Michael Seaman have traced the history of New Orleans brass band music for their film “Brass Roots.” De los Rios and Bachman, both ...

They’ve played at international festivals, in nightclubs and on a boat in the New York harbor. In one unusual gig, they played on the L train in Chicago. This local band has even been on the radio — ...

Eric Kniess · On Tuesday, Feb. 17, The Workshop Brass Band will be hosting a Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday Celebration featuring dinner and live New Orleans Jazz music at the restaurant, Bonfire at The ...

New Orleans music ushered in the 20th century with the wail of a joyful noise: collective improvisation, syncopated rhythms, eclectic stylings, and an infectious joie de vivre that was exhilarating.

New Breed Brass Band’s totally kickin’ recently-released album could only be, as the title and music indicate, Made in New Orleans. It’s doubtful if anyone can argue with that because the Crescent ...

Forever at the heart of New Birth is the dynamic rhythm team of bass drummer Cayetano “Tanio” Hingle and Kerry “Fatman” Hunter. These two original members have been the constants of the group that has ...

As the sun began to set Friday evening, the Conrad Prebys Amphitheater came alive with the exuberant sounds of about 30 brass musicians from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. After a year ...

Stellar Wood, the swamp-sultry vocalist for the Pensacola-based band Whiskey & Water, grew up in New Orleans, and said the environment from that famed musical melting pot definitely influenced the ...