The Cincinnati Brass Band is tooting its own horn with conductor Ben Chamberlain positioning the group to be Cincinnati’s latest winning team. Before we get to that, let’s back that brass up. Maybe ...
If you want some loud and lively music, then let’s hear it for the hot, dirty, sharp, and undoubtedly lively tones of brass. I don't mean those mellow, warm notes of a typical old-style brass band, ...
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 — ...
Brass Solidarity meets weekly to spread music, usually at George Floyd Square. But with ICE in the area, their music has a renewed purpose.
EDITOR’S NOTE: A new series “New Orleans: Soul of a City” explores the many ways the city communes with its history – through music, food, sports and tradition – revealing how, 20 years after Katrina, ...
Shakur Brooks has a bass line looping in his head. The eighth-grade trombonist sits on a metal chair in the band room of the Booker T. Washington Middle School for the Arts in West Baltimore, punching ...