New Orleans Brass News

 
Pitch Weekly
Dirty Dozen Brass Band doesn't forget its New Orleans roots
STLtoday.com
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band has become as much a tradition as the music it celebrates: the upliftingly in-your-face sound of New Orleans. Once that brass hits your ears, it's just about impossible not to party. And in its travels — which have ...
Uplifting Dirty Dozen Brass Band gets the crowd dancingKansas City Star
The old-school NOLA charms of Dirty Dozen Brass BandPitch Weekly

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Restaurant Report: Boucherie, New Orleans
New York Times
Last May, three gunshots ripped through Nathanial Zimet's body, and, in a sense, the whole New Orleans food community. The young chef, who had transformed food truck fame into a successful restaurant called Boucherie, was critically wounded in an ...

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Kansas City Star
Jazz Town | A Dozen variations on New Orleans jazz
Kansas City Star
By JOE KLOPUS The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, performing tonight at Crossroads KC, is much more than a brilliant New Orleans-style party band. The way it spans styles from way back when to right now, from conservative to funky, shows everybody how ...

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NOLA.com
New Orleans remembers Washington D.C.'s 'Godfather of Go-Go,' Chuck Brown
NOLA.com
Like New Orleanians call bounce music “that beat,” Washingtonians call go-go “the beat;” in both cities, bands, crews, singers and MCs represent and name-check their neighborhoods lyrically. “"Like the brass bands of New Orleans and their accompanying ...

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NOLA.com
The Stooges Brass Band triumphs at New Orleans Jazz Fest
NOLA.com
By Amanda Schurr Folks who missed the outstanding New Orleans Jazz Fest set by local superstars The Stooges Brass Band also missed one of the day's biggest collective chuckles -- or were those gasps? -- at the unintentionally hysterical introduction.
Local music featured at New Orleans Jazz FestUSA TODAY
Dispatch from New Orleans: Summoning ghosts at Jazz FestPhiladelphia Inquirer
Preservation Hall Jazz Band marks 50 years at festCBS News
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Boone's Concerts in the Park series begins June 3
Rockford Register Star
The June 24 concert will offer New Orleans Cajun music performed by the Cajun Strangers. Fireworks will precede the country music of Dale Rhode and the Crossroads at 7 pm July 1 at Doty Park. The Prairie Brass Band will highlight the July 8 concert ...


 
NOLA.com
New recording project Brassft Punk imagines electronic dance music via New ...
NOLA.com
With the reapparance of the Voodoo Experience's Le Plur stage in 2010 and the inaugural Buku Music & Art Project this year, even New Orleans – bastion of dance music so analog (brass band, trad jazz) it's often not even amplified – has gotten into the ...