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 ...

The Rebirth Brass Band rose from the streets of New Orleans to international renown with a mix of the brass-band tradition and a refreshingly modern sensibility. The Rebirth Brass Band mastered the ...

The Southfield-based brass band Five Lakes Silver Band is ramping up its preparations for the World Music Contest this month.

For over seventy-five years, the brass band tradition existed largely unchanged until this forward looking, bebop influenced ensemble completely changed both the style and the repertoire of brass band ...

The free Steamboat Mountain Music Series in Steamboat Square at the base of the ski area kicks off this Friday, June 26 with ...

Old friends, audience members and random musicians often flow on and off The Big Ass Brass Band’s stage, sometimes even mid-song. But that’s all part of the fun for the Dallas-based brass band.

Some Saturday evening after a Tigers game you might wander into Greektown for a bite to eat and hear the sound of brass band music rising above the bouzouki melodies wafting out of Greek eateries.

William Claiborne, the first American governor of the Louisiana territory, believed New Orleans was ungovernable due to the citizenry's preoccupation with dancing. We're talking pre-jazz here. Later ...

Preservation Brass had been holding down Monday nights at Preservation Hall for several years, playing sets of classic New Orleans brass band music, when some of the musicians started batting around ...

In the early 1990s, bass drummer Derrick Moss, snare drummer Lumar LeBlanc and other members of the Young Olympia Brass Band decided to split off to form a new brass band: The Soul Rebels. They wanted ...

If you’ve strolled down Denver’s 16th Street Mall in the last decade, odds are you’ve heard the raucously upbeat sound of a New Orleans-style brass band. With the Rocky Mountains looming beyond the ...