Upcoming: Brass-A-Holics @ Subculture for $0.01

Brass-A-Holics

Thu, June 13, 2013

Doors: 9:30 pm / Show: 10:00 pm

$0.01

In the year 2010, a brand new sound was born. The Brass-A-Holics Band and the Go-go Brass Funk genre joined the ranks of the time honored traditions, culture and music that have come out of the great city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

The ensemble contains the core New Orleans brass elements - trumpet, trombone, saxophone and sousaphone, but also adds a full drum set, percussion, keyboard, and an electric guitar for a unique sound that is transcending the traditional world of brass band music. A Brass-A-Holics live show is a singular experience. Where else can you hear the influences of Miles Davis, Nirvana, John Coltrane, Wham, Cyndi Lauper, Kanye West, and Louis Armstrong all in one set?

The band was conceived by renowned trombonist Winston Turner, whose roots stem from the St. Augustine High School Marching 100, the Southern University Human Jukebox, The Pinstripes Brass Band, and The Soul Rebels Brass Band. He created the "Go-go Brass Funk" genre by merging the unrivaled New Orleans brass sound with Washington, DC's funky Go-go groove and topping off this instrumental gumbo with a personal touch of keys and strings. This uniquely diverse band consists of 8 members: Winston Turner, Tannon Williams, Matt Clark, Jason "Slick" Slack, Keiko Komaki, Robin Clabby, Rickey Caesar, and Dwayne Muhammad. Although there are differences in culture, style, and swagger within this band, the members of the Brass-A-Holics collectively bring to you a unique sound that is unparalleled to anything you have ever heard!

Be warned that this sound is a powerful substance, both addictive and intoxicating. It is guaranteed that you will find yourself partying under the influence and addicted to the Brass-A-Holic sound! "I AM…..A BRASS-A-HOLIC"

Venue Information:
SubCulture
45 Bleecker St.
Downstairs
New York, NY, 10012
http://www.subculturenewyork.com

Upcoming: Rebirth Brass Band @ Brooklyn Bowl

In Pictures: Hot 8 Brass Band @ Sullivan Hall

By Dino Perrucci Photography

Hot 8 Brass Band - Sullivan Hall, NYC 7/14/10


Hot 8 Brass Band - Sullivan Hall, NYC 7/14/10

Upcoming: Hot 8 Brass Band @ Sullivan Hall tomorrow night

Hot 8 Brass Band

with special guests Urban Sun and Otis

Wednesday, Jul 14, 2010

Sullivan Hall

VIDEO: Glen David and Revert "Peanut" Andrews on street music

c/o neworleans.com

Glen David Andrews has already gone to jail for playing his music on the streets of New Orleans. His cousin Peanut says that without music he may have ended up in jail or worse.

The two musicians led a group of musicians around Jackson Square Friday afternoon to protest what they called the harassment of other musicians in the French Quarter in recent days. Members of the To Be Continued Brass Band were issued citations earlier this week for playing music on the street past 8 p.m., violating a previously unenforced city ordinance.

"If it wasn't for the music, I don't know where I would be right now," Peanut Andrews said after the second line. "Coming up in the 'hood, in New Orleans. I might be in jail. I might be dead. But the music is what saved me, from playing right there in Jackson Square."

Mardi Gras Road Show Hits NYC!

Rebirth & Dumpstaphunk hits Highline Ballroom on Thurdsday & Sullivan Hall on Friday...

NPR's Bonerama: A Brass-Band Force Of Nature

by Claire Blaustein

'When the Levee Breaks' by Bonerama

The New Orleans brass band Bonerama updates "When the Levee Breaks" for a post-Katrina world.

"When the Levee Breaks" was first recorded by Memphis Minnie in 1929. The song originally referred to the great Mississippi Flood of 1927 — a natural disaster that destroyed communities up and down the banks of the river, but mostly spared the city of New Orleans. Of course, Hurricane Katrina created a whole different image of what can happen when the barriers between humans and the elements come down, so it makes sense that the New Orleans band Bonerama would bring the song forcefully into the present.

Mark Mullins and Craig Klein met while playing in the trombone section of Harry Connick Jr.'s Big Band, and together they created the core sound of Bonerama — reminiscent of street-tromping brass bands, avenues of jazz clubs and heavy-pulsing rock. Naturally, "When the Levee Breaks" pulls from the famous version on Led Zeppelin IV, complete with sly re-renderings of harmonica solos on swaying trombone. It moves with a heavy groove, dominated by the pounding wave of sound created by the slides of the trombone. The effect is edgier and more mournful than Led Zeppelin's lightly bluesy version — not only for its rich brass and darker, harder strung arrangement, but also because every bit of the performance comes from deep in the chest cavity, from a time and place when "Cryin' won't help you, and prayin' won't do no good." It feels like a force of nature, and as such, it threatens to sweep away everything in its path.

In Memory: Ernest “Doc” Watson

(June 2, 1932 – February 19, 2010)

“I like all kinds of music, but now I feel I owe it to myself and my musical heritage to keep this jazz going. Over the past twenty years, black musicians have more of an interest in preserving what we have done, and getting people to realize what we’ve done. We’ve contributed the only real American art form – jazz.

We shouldn’t change it every week, like pop music.”

At 77 years old, Ernest “Doc” Watson was the last surviving member of the old guard of The Olympia Brass Band, the enigmatic brass band led and popularized by Harold “Duke” Dejan and Milton Batiste. A musician all his life, Ernest started his journey as a French horn player with the Booker T. Washington High School Band. After switching to alto saxophone, he joined up with Ellis Marsalis in his early dance band, The Groovy Boys, before joining the service in 1952. It wasn’t until later, as a member of Little Millet and the Creoles, that Doc switched to tenor saxophone. Having spent much of the sixties playing with the Young Tuxedo Brass Band, Doc was approached by Harold Dejan to join the Olympia Brass Band as a replacement for David Grillier in the mid-seventies. He stayed through the group as long as it remained active, and continued to play weekly at Preservation Hall through the end of 2009.

He will be greatly missed.

Upcoming: Abita Beer presents Sugartone Brass Band @ S.O.B.

Upcoming: High & Mighty Brass Band Mardi Gras 2010

HMBB! is proud to be playing Michael Arnone’s Mardi Gras Party at Mexicali Blues in Teaneck, NJ on Sat Feb 13th Also… Monday, Feb 15th we’re at Fat Cat and MARDI GRAS day we’ll be rocking Union Hall in Park Slope.

UNION HALL'S FAT TUESDAY PARTY!

featuring performances from

THE HIGH AND MIGHTY BRASS BAND

plus, also, too

ROYAL AMERICAN SOCIAL AID & PLEASURE CLUB

featuring jambalaya, hurricanes, DJs, $3 pints of Abita, and much much more - costumes encouraged! Come celebrate Mardi Gras at Union Hall!

Upcoming: Sugartone Brass Band @ Berry Park

In Pictures: Kirk Joseph & Backyard Groove & Jambalaya Brass Band @ Sullivan Hall

By Dino Perrucci Photography / Greg Aiello


Kirk Joseph - Sullivan Hall, NYC 1/28/10


Steven Bernstein - Sullivan Hall, NYC 1/28/10


Charles Joseph - Sullivan Hall, NYC 1/28/10


Jambalaya Brass Band - Sullivan Hall, NYC 1/28/10

Kirk Joseph @ Sullivan Hall


The Backyard Groove @ Sullivan Hall


Steven Bernstein @ Sullivan Hall


Charles Joseph @ Sullivan Hall


Matthew Thomas @ Sullivan Hall


Steven Bernstein & Charles Joseph @ Sullivan Hall


Takishi @ Sullivan Hall


Gene @ Sullivan Hall


Jambalaya Brass Band @ Sullivan Hall


Walt Szymanski @ Sullivan Hall


Ric Hall @ Sullivan Hall

Win Tickets and Other New Orleans Treats to the Dirty Dozen Tonight (Thursday / Nov 5)

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band will perform at Brooklyn, NY’s Brooklyn Bowl tonight.

25th Anniversary Show
of their seminal record
My Feet Can't Fail Me Now

The Dirty Dozen revolutionized the New Orleans brass band style by incorporating funk and bebop into the traditional New Orleans style.


The new bowling/music venue—which is run by Relix and Jambands.com publisher Peter Shapiro—is running a New Orleans-themed contest for tickets to the show and other goodies. Fans can signup for a chance to win two Bourbon Street Shakes, two Chicken Muffaletta, two Oyster Po’ Boy, two hours of bowling and four tickets to the show. As previously reported, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band will perform its classic first album My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now in its entirety at tonight’s performance. Please click here to enter.

Upcoming: Jambalaya Brass Band @ BB King's (FREE!) tomorrow night.

THE JAMBALAYA BRASS BAND

NYC's Ultimate New Orleans Party Band

2009-09-11
Friday (9/11) @ Midnight

Doors @ 11:30PM

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP ON THE GUEST LIST (I.E. FREEBIE) FOR THIS SHOW

Upcoming: Rebirth Brass Band @ Sullivan Hall tonight

REBIRTH BRASS BAND w/ Brother Joscephus & The Love Revival Revolution Orchestra

Friday August 14th 10:30pm | $20adv - $25dos

Rebirth Brass Band Official Website Myspace Youtube Simply put, The Rebirth Brass Band is a New Orleans institution. Formed in 1983 by the now infamous Frazier brothers, the band has evolved from playing the streets of the French Quarter to playing festivals and stages all over the world. Rebirth is committed to upholding the tradition of brass bands while at the same time incorporating modern music into their show. Their signature brand of heavy funk has not only won over several generations of music lovers, it has become the soundtrack to an entire city. In the wake of the sometimes-stringent competition amongst brass bands, Rebirth is the undisputed leader of the pack, and they show no signs of slowing down. Brother Joscephus & The Love Revival Revolution Orchestra 10:30pm Brother Joscephus offers the best gospel-style music without the bothersome "subservience to Jesus" part. Throw in a liberal amount of Ray Charles/Al Green/Otis Redding soul and some good ol' roots rock and you've got a perfect stew simmered to porchswing perfection.

NolaFunk Lagniappe

Terence Blanchard- given ‘choices,’ chooses New Orleans time and again

Grammy-winning trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard chose to live in New Orleans, bring the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz that he heads to the city of his birth and for the first time record an album here. His decisions continue to impact and shine a light on New Orleans as revealed on his 2007 album A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina) and furthered on his new, soon-to-be-released CD, simply titled Choices. We also benefit from his residency as Blanchard kicks off his upcoming world-wide tour on July 31, 2009 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Arts where he and his band recorded the disc.

“One of the things that I’m trying to do with this particular CD is not talk about what happened in New Orleans and the negative stuff,” Blanchard explains. “I want to deal with all the positive things that have been goin’ on. My whole thing is to bring up the debate so we can rebuild the city in such a way so it is much stronger and so we can be the beacon of cultural excellence that we’ve been for decades.”

Encore performance: K-Doe daughter struggles to keep music playing at Mother-in-Law Lounge

Betty Fox, daughter of Ernie and Antoinette K-Doe, reopened her mother’s 7th Ward iconic Mother-in-Law Lounge July 4.

Commercial break: The Radiators

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No, it's not that I'm going commercial. But I do like to draw some attention to the new album by The Radiators, "The Lost Southlake Sessions". I got sent a copy and I'm allowed to give you one song of the album. And I like it.


The Radiators are from New Orleans, Louisiana. And they sound like it too. If, besides Southern Rock, you dig the NOLA vibe, you should definitely give this a try. These guys have been around since 1978 and still play with the same line-up. They released several albums, mostly on small labels. According to Allmusic "Law Of The Fish", their only major label release (and thus, the band probably having access to all the right means), is the one to have.
This is New Orleans Rock alright. An influence which can be heard in Little Feat music as well. And of course on any Anders Osborne album.

New Orleans Voices Podcast: Cyril Neville Interview

Cyril Neville is a member of the Neville Brothers, and the Wild Tchoupitoulas Mardi Gras Indian tribe. He also leads his own band, Cyril Neville and Tribe 13.

NY Times Music Review: Terence Blanchard -Leading a Crew of Energetic Youngsters, and Keeping Up With Them

Jenn Ackerman

The trumpeter Terence Blanchard runs an informal but important academy. Since the beginning of the 1990s his bands have always been strong, if sometimes overcontrolled. But now that he’s a full generation older than most of the musicians working with him — and those musicians have musically evolved from education and influences different from the ones that formed him — his music is feeling energized in a new way.

Live: Marcus Roberts Trio at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

Marcus Roberts Trio
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
Wednesday, July 22

You should see this place, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, up yonder at Lincoln Center, first of all just to behold the not-too-distant future of venue-naming (five years from now Tiny Masters of Today will be headlining Kurt Cobain Drink Mountain Dew or We'll Kill You Arena), but more importantly to regard the view behind the band onstage, looking down on Central Park and, at the 7:30 p.m. show at least, slowly, romantically darkening from broad daylight to sunset. This is alarmingly idyllic, and only more so with a telepathic piano trio lustily dialing up "East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)."

Brass Bands.

But the big jobbing-gig thing here, kind of the local equivalent of the wedding band, is the brass band. These can be old-school outfits like the Majestic or Michael White's Liberty Brass Band, which plays traditional repertoire almost exclusively, or bands that play in the more funk-based contemporary style of the Dirty Dozen band, or the Rebirth. Even newer-school outfits like the Hot 8 or the Soul Rebels play a kind of 'brass hop' style of hip-hop, rap music adapted to brass band instruments. There are also more esoteric groups like the Panorama Jazz Band that play hybrids of traditional brass band, early New Orleans jazz, and various Latin and Afro-Cuban styles. The one thing they all have in common is portability, marching capability, and (usually) percussion sections made up of two or more seperate players (one player on bass drum and one on snare). In addition to these relatively fixed-personell outfits there are dozens of 'pick up' type brass bands where who shows up at the gig is related to who's available. My buddy Kevin O'Day, for instance, has a band called the Oakside Brass Band that consists entirely of him on snare and his brother-in-law Frank Lodato on bass drum. When he gets a gig he just starts calling people and you never know who's going to be on the gig. Could be some guy you've never heard of on trumpet, could be the great Kirk Joseph on Sousaphone.

Yeah, You Right: Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown

This week's guest is trumpeter extraordinaire Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown, whose classic tone and stunning facility on the horn has delighted audiences at tons of major festivals, on Frenchmen Street, and at clubs like Preservation Hall and Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse. He's worked in many of the greatest bands in New Orleans, including the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Los Hombres Calientes, the Preservation Hall-Stars, and his own Chocolate City.

Q: Crystal or Louisiana Hot Sauce?

A: Crystal.

Q: Zapp’s or Tater Tots?

A: Zapp's Jalapeno and Crawtators.

The story of a New Orleans sign-painter: Artist Lester Carey

By nonotes

Satchmo Summerfest Recap

Jason Hall

The ninth annual Satchmo Summerfest ended with a massive rain shower and then cool breezes off the Mississippi River. The trumpet blowout that is the traditional closer of the festival featured Yoshio Toyama (often billed as the Satchmo of Japan), Shamarr Allen, James Andrews (pictured) and one of the youngsters from the Baby Boyz Brass Band joined Kermit Ruffins and his band, the BBQ Swingers in honoring the greatest musician to ever call New Orleans home, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong.

QUINTRON: RISK YOUR LIFE TO BECOME A CALLIOPE PLAYER

You ever play a calliope?

No, but I would really really love to. There’s a calliope on the Mississippi River that I hear every single day—the Natchez I believe is the steamship’s name and there’s an old woman that plays it. I don’t know what her name is but she is very wonderful. There is a peculiar thing about calliopes in that the power for the pipes that generate the sound for the calliope music is actually generated from the steam from the steam engine. The one in New Orleans is actually a real steam calliope. A lot of calliopes are fake. I would love to play it. It’s my dream actually. There’s supposedly—on a real old steam calliope—a release valve that you have to be careful to release enough steam so that the pressure in your organ tank doesn’t build up to such a point that there can be an explosion. The calliope is a dangerous instrument to play. You risk your life to become a calliope player—it’s true.

New Orleans great Toussaint feted in hometown