New Orleans music evocative of early jazz, brass bands, and funk. The Euphoria Brass Band, a New Orleans–jazz outfit, was founded in 2011 by longtime New Orleanians, David Bandrowski (banjo ...
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band — never with more than eight members, despite the name — started out backing heavy hitters like Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk.
An Isle of Wight brass band will embark on a free to attend tour over Christmas. Vectis Brass Band will play three dates across the Island to commemorate the festive season. The band will first visit ...
But all-brass bands first appeared in Britain and Ireland in a regimental guise. As well as producing a large cohort of band trainers, the military provided a familiar and attractive template for ...
Learn more at Blazer88.org. Brass choir to play concert Sunday CUMBERLAND — Indianapolis Brass Choir will play a free concert at 4 p.m. Sunday at Heather Hills Baptist Church, 1421 N.
By the late 1820s, brass bands started forming outside the military, but often mentored by veterans. One of the ex-military band leaders about whom he has discovered the most was James Sanderson ...
Band of the Second Regiment of Life Guards, leaving Windsor, 1830. Oil on canvas by John Frederick Tayler, 1830. Credit: National Army Museum Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were ...